Show NOTHING NEW IN lil TUE SUBJECT OF ELDER V REMARKS elder K G baeser speaks upon conquering evil dispositions the usual services of the church of jesus christ of latter day i saints were held in the meeting house on sunday afternoon at 2 elder holdaway presided the choir sane on the mountain tops appearing lo 10 the sacred herald stands prayer was offered by elder T auman sr the choir sang he died the great redeemer died daughters wept around the sacrament was administered by the bishopric of the second ward ELDER V L desired to say such things as would benefit the saints there is a saying that there is nothing new under the sun this is a fact there is nothing that we oven though it be in the shape but what has been known in bygone ages it is the same with everything that exists yet there are times when we hear an elder preach something that appears new unto us the doctrine may appear new to us but it is not BO it is a doctrine that may have been preached in other ages yet by as hearing it probably for the first time wo consider it new the principles of salvation that have been preached to us are the sams as those preached by noah to the they are not new the in those days would not abide these principles and consequently they suffered condemnation dem nation like we will if we do not abide them but a way of escape has been provided in their case whereby they can obtain salvation after jesus was put to death in the flesh ho was quickened by the spirit so peter says by which he also went and preached to the spirits in prison who were sometimes disobedient when the long suffering of arod waited in the days of noah when jesus was crucified by the power he possessed he burst the gates of the prison house and preached unto these spirits giving them salvation by which they were entitled to liberty it is a similar work that the saints are en in today to day they sanctify them selves and enter into temples built to the lord and then do a work for their dead kindred fulfilling the scripture wherein it says shall stand upon mount zion by means of their faithfulness and their integrity and their love for the lives of the human they burst the chains of bondage from the spirits ol 01 choir departed friends and cause the light of redemption to dawn in upon them this glorious principle waa fully perfected by joseph before he left this sphere of action before he went ho felt impressed to roll the responsibility of the priesthood on to the shoulders of the twelve apostles which he di J those of as who have been permitted to enter into holy places doubtless recollect the feeling of sine i thit th it came over us a fueling or greab desire to live near to the lord then dont you think we should cultivate such a feeling all the time for we can see by this that the nearer get to tho lord the we will become then it behaves behoves us to draw near to the lord not with our lips but with our hearts we must not alone belongs to god I 1 am well aware that home of us are apt when hearing of outrageous wrongs liko those upon some of our brethen recently in tennessee to judge the perpetration harshly but we should not do so god will judge them and that too with a righteous judgment Of fences must come but woe unto them by whom they come we must liyo upright we must keep the testimony of the lord jesus within us we must bo forbearing if we want to bo live branches on the tree of lifo we must walk in a circumspect man ner ELDER HAUL G said a great many reflections had passed through his mind while brother speaking about the spirits in prison the sons and daughters ut god had no beginning A beginning has an end this is logical we resemble somewhat a train we get on it at u certain depot and ride with it till our station comes when wo net off some travel bufa a short distance others a seemingly long distance we ab have to get when we arrive at our destination no matter how long or how short the journey our former existence wo know little of what little wo do know has been revealed to us by obeying the principles ol 01 salvation this life is as much the consequence of our former of notion as the life that is to come in all that god is doing there is wisdom there is justice there is beauty incomprehensible before wo come horo god had proven us and every man on the earth is known to him in oar primeval childhood we had missions assigned us upon the earth in this manner god selected his chosen spirits to come adro and take lead of things joseph smith and Brigham 1 young were of these choden chohen vessels they were clothed with the power and might and the of the holy priesthood of god and fully accomplished the work he committed into their hands they had been proven of god and ho knew that he could trust aam how different with others we find them making shipwreck of their faith and lomg back like a sow to her wallowing ia the enire others wo find bryin the gospel of peace and will to mea in all parts of the irth causing the light of freedom to the clouds oi error with which ie human family have been anvel od for years there is hope and ico in their words gods 7 mare principles of hope of peace of justice of purity of righteousness and they will exalt men if they abide the conditions of these principles cles the man who does this has wealth indeed wealth which the grave cannot rob him of how different with the miser who thirsts for the riches of this life he cannot take one cent of it with him when he departs he has to leave all who then is the richest he that has treasured up the riches of a blessed eternity most decidedly cid edly these will not die with him they are everlasting it ischo same with everything else men i may have evil dispositions thirsting in other directions they sacrifice soul and body to the satisfying and gratification of their appetites they ilive in this way they die in this way their body is laid away in tho grave a slave to the evil disposition of the spirit that inhabited it while the spirit has gone to the god who gave it accompanied by the habits and dispositions that it failed to conquer in this life the hate they badin bad in this life goes with them the ap petita for strong drink they had in this life goes with them the thirst for riches that they 1 had in this life goes with them the love for slandering for lying and evil speaking they had in this life they lake with them this is their lot but he who had a thirst for the things of eternal life takes with him the for which he strove to gain in this life we should overcome everything of an impure nature it will take untold ag to overcome thoroughly but we have to become perfect as god is perfect if we ever expect to overcome aud receive of glory like god possesses then so long as we have to tarry upon the earth we should labor for one object and that to receive an inheritance in the presence our god blessings at his the speaker then closed invoking the blessings of god upon the people and exhorting them to faith 1 falness and renewed diligence in the things pertaining to the kingdom that they might eventually be recipients of life eternal the choir then sang the anthem abino 0 lords the greatness benediction was pronounced by bishop J P B joanson Job |