Show agg TS fay effs rolita STAKE conference ahe eloquent sermons delivered on sunday exhortation GIVEN tiie saints exhorted to remember their religions duties apostles speak monday services utah stake conference was held at provo saturday sept and 2nd 1890 prest geo Q cannon apostal F al lyman and IL J grant pres jno morgan and utah stair eP residency were on the stand after the usual opening exercises president smoot bald 1 take pleasure in meeting with the people of this stake of kioa in quarterly conference again and feel to appreciate the blessings of the lord nave been po copiously extended toward us the last meeting in that he has preserved our lives and health and we have enjoyed prosperity and to a great extent we have been able in our weakness to appreciate these blessings that god has given us and in that we hac enjoyed abundant harvests and nothing to mar our peace or destroy clr happiness to illustrate the pio eresa in the work I 1 can say that since last conference myself and brother john have visited the greater portion of the wards in tho stake our labors have been holding conferences in the midst of oyle to feel of their spirits and that of their presiding priesthood in all the wards to con verso with them aad interchange ideas i and feelings I 1 can say as a rule the priesthood of the stake aie awake duties I 1 must not say thia is universally the case but as a anlo wo find them on the alert up to the times and willing ami ready in most instances to the duties laid buon them our harvest has been a very abundant one and I 1 feel that we should appreciate iland remember I 1 hat atio lord and away ho can build us up or lie can baat us down last year we felt as though the lord was frowning upon us by withhold ing the rain and snows 0 o necessary for an abundant harvest this year lord has smiled upon our lielda flocks and homes and families and throughout the stake there is a cor responding reap good feeling among the people although to say many are luko warm they scarcely know where they stand whether on solid foundation or whether they labor to be jostled and turned hither and thither it is a day when we must walk by faith and cot by sight we should have a a testimony of the great work and live in the light of the gospel we aeve received some may feel gloomy and that they do not know which way it will turn but to a latter day enjoy the spirit of god and does his duty they feel firm and steadfast and trust in god they feel as president young said it is the kingdom of god with us or nothing this is very true and applicable to the latter day saints we must be alive or become darkened and filled with fear when we in god and feel he if our strength and buckler we feel in spirit boulant and strong and as if to say so let the winds blow and the people imagine vain things but this church is founded upon the rock and zion will triumph over the powers of darkness may god give us power to do all our duties and may we stand firm upon the principles that pertain to the building bui liing up of zion is alie prayer of your servant amen PEES JOHN MORGAN sookeas keas follows I 1 have been requested to occupy a portion of the time this morning and while I 1 shall endeavor to do so I 1 trust I 1 may haye an interest in your faith and prayers and sympathies that I 1 may be enabled to say so that will be a blessing and benefit to those assembled as well as to myself I 1 believe thia is the first opportunity I 1 have enjoyed of meeting with the saints in utah stake in quarterly conference and I 1 enjoy this that we can meet without being disturbed by the opposing powers that we are privileged to meet under such favorable circumstances under these conditions our hearts should rejoice and we should feel thankful to the father for his many blessings surrounding us As a body the saints have been preserved and from the little beginning of three score years ago they have grown to the magnitude of today to day eliat perhaps the wildest nights of imagination one haf cantu y ago unaided by the spirit of god would scarcely have allowed the present situation cf auzira to enter when we the scope of country occupied by the saints the stories of riches that are even yet undeveloped and down in the virgin soil of botner eartle where we see the agricultural and manufacturing and the general growth and progress of a material nature then we can imagine the broad field that opens before them we should recognize the hand of a kind father in having led the people through trials and vicissitudes and atiat lie has poured and will pour out upon them blessings without stint and number when wo contrast the condition of the saints with that of the world we are blest above our fellow beings not as well situated it was a true baying of the savior that alight wag not made to be placed under a bushel but as a city abet upon a hill to be seen of all men so ia the position of alie latter day saints today to day throughout the length and of the earth her name has gone out and is recognized for good or for evil among all men and its reputation will continue to prow and increase until the earth shall know of it the trials and tribulations is a school and experience to the latter day saints to fit and prepare them for the blessings and to better prepare them to comprehend alie de stinys designs and ways of the creator those who warm and indifferent and have lost eight of the original object they had in this work must wake up for gedwill require an account of the stewardship stewart ship and each will be asked what lie lias done with the talents that havo been placed with him whether he has led them to increase or whether he has buried them up and instead of increase has come rust and retrogression instead of progression we should recognize the fact that the struggle for truth is a battle all alie day long unceasing and lie who enters into it must expect there shall bo no rest but it shall be a pleasant and agreeable warfare if you can comprehend that in behalf of the principles of righteous anses that aliey may bo act among men is no greater pleasure no greater joy and satisfaction than to be engaged in such a work bus lie alio grows lukewarm in the fight aud becomes indifferent in the struggle inest have lost the spirit of it I 1 am reminded of a circumstance a brother related to me a day or two sinco in relation to man aman a who had been sawn years that fd we was creeping upon him within the last eighteen months ho had his time to investigating the foundation he had it deemed to mo ho had commenced at the top of his and built the walls and placed ho root upon it before ho had ai d the foundation oun dation bo I 1 say to you birday my and sisters investigate tho the gospel learn today to day of the foundation you are building upon do not leave it three score years and then go back to see if you have built wisely for to that man who so builds the winds will blow and the rams descend and that house shall fall it has proven true in this case he is now outside of the household of faith a stranger to the principles or eternal life and certainly no greater wreck can be made so it will be with the latter day saints unless they build gieely ni eely carefully and humbly laying the principles of the gospel the way of eternal life is so plain that a wayfare ing man though a fool need not fall therein he who comes to the father desiring to know the way seef cing for intelligence and wisdon haa a promise that he dball receive if he knock tin should be a source of gratitude to the satisfaction of the latter day saints in fact the gospel i caches all the needs of the human family and is suited to hie varied of all who come to alie truth atia not for alie rich alone neither is it for the poor but oathir it is a of that saying come unto me all ends of the earth and be saved if we compare the condition in a religious beuto f alie sayings of the prophets of old they fit th condition of the latter day saints to day not only do they fit alie latter day but all the religious world A few days since a brother handed me a letter to a gentleman who had proclaimed alie gospel in that portion of the land from which the letter was written among the hearers was a man of more than ordinary information and after listening to the principles set forth he said those arguments can not be averted his conditions and prospects as a young man prevented him from espousing the call but a number of his rela tives gathered with the saints he allied himself with one of the churches perhaps a little in advance of some others in that it believed in baptism for the remission of sins he now writes a letter and aska the eldeir to coma to that vicinity 1 I believe he says scores of us here will now receive alie gospel in its purity we found the blanket too short and alie bed too narrow we are as an individual whose blanket will only warm part of himic the shoulders are covered his feet remain bare and if he desires to cover his feet his shoulders must be exposed we find this to be the condition of the world today alie bankets is too short and the bed too narrow sc in our own youthful days we were told that all heathers heathens he athens on earth were damned and all infants not baptized baptised sed also perished eternally alius nearly one half of the human race perished in infancy and then taking into consideration the millions who had never heard the gospel it seemed eliat the plan of salvador was a failure it was left for this day to interpret these words the mercy of the lord will endure forever the life past pres ent and m that to come with tins goabel every knee ahal bow and every tongue contess the righteousness of god in the plan of life and salvation and takes all of gods children and opens the door of salvation to every soul not only upon this earth but upon the multitudes of earths that god has created and peopled this plan of life and salvation in god is like him in nature and lifts man above the things of earth and places him in communion with father and god luay we continue to be guided that it may be said in the future well done good and faithful servant enter into the reward prepared for the faithful I 1 ask it in name of jesus aman singing ahe spirit ot god uko a alre Is burning elc GRANT said 1 am pleased once more to have the opportunity of meeting with the saints of this stake I 1 rejoice from time to time in meeting with the latter day saints and listening to their testimonies and I 1 rejoice in bearing my testimony of the truth of the gosp eland to labor to encourage the saints to press forward in the work it is a source of satisfaction to me to feel that the majority of the people are not in the condition of the individual to whom brother morgan referred that most have been blessed with a testimony of the gospel and that they are upon the rock and the storms come but they will leave no doubt effect upon them in their house that is the testimony of the gospel within them will be solid and firm I 1 rejoice that no kind of persecution has been able in the least to discourage those who have a testimony of the gospel this is one of the faults that the finds fault with us I 1 have heard it remarked that when a measure i before congress would injure the mor mons that the saints pray eliat it may bo defeated and if it is not they thank god any way chati ahat ia the matter with the cormons mormons Mor mons they are always thanking the lord whether things go for them or against bliem there is some truth in aliis remark A mormon knows eliat the promises of god are tru eind said that allwill be tried realizing these things the latter day saints will acknowledge their maker not only in blessings but also in tribulations ve find that those who have suffered imprisonment enjoyed jo yand in comparing their lives that thoe who suffered were happier than those who caused them suffering for god always gives his spirit to those who their duties and these are that aliey shall receive life eternal there should bea tion in making sacrifices if we intend to realize a blessing from them there is nothing truer that the gospel of jesus christ is calculated to satisfy our being the blanket is long enough and wide enough to cover us there ment known necessary for our physical intellectual or religious nature no temporal or spiritual spir blessings but ran be obtained through the gospel the gospel does not teach us to didiw long fares but it teaches us to be happy I 1 never come in contact with the latter day saints but there is an atmosphere of peace surrounding them I 1 remember hearing a man say once that whenever he thought ot ourt and do his duty and get his sen bencs lie felt happy he also testified that when he thought he would go and promise to obey the law he felt unhappy there 13 no stronger testimony mouy as to which is the path of duty we are entitled to the testimony of jesus that testimony will lead us to do those things that will be for our best good as well as for alie good of gods cause it is our duty to so order our lives that the example we set shall bring credit to the work in we aie engaged I 1 that a latter day saint that does a wrong is not only held ac for that wrong but also foi aliu discredit he brings upon the cause let a man get drunk who belongs to the probably some one sees laiu and sies in him for the first time a mor mon he id po tei out as a mormon aud by him thu rem are jadeed he ano sees this would say if that ir I 1 dunec want any of it and when he deaia of a mormon sermon to be preached he will stay away so are many sins intended to choai mens hearts against tho kingdom 0 god As famil es and families compose 1111 communities the whole men of intelligence realize that abers there is individual purity and girlue there is no such a thing as a wicked community they realize that in business does not go with corruption here we have a good business there is a regard for jawand that the making 13 one that bringa credit to them at large aga latter day saint who baa received a testimony of the dospel and through neglect looses that testimony will be under much greater those who have never received it they will be judged by the light givan to them saints va 1 a latter day and alsom testimony oi the gospel j Is to the duties that rest upon them and unless we ahall carry out those counsels we will he under greater condemnation than those who know not god that god will help us to be faithful in keeping his commandments is my prayer in the name of jesus amen note the sermons of president geo Q cannon and apostle F M lyman wilt appear in our next issuer MONDAY MORNINGS SERVICES conference services were continued this morning the choir sang era ieng the veil will reni in twain the king descend with all his train prayer va offered by elder part rid ee tho choir sang how beauteous fire their feel who stand on zious hi 1 KAEL G in arising before the saints felt that the were too precious for any man to attempt to address the saints relying simply oi his evv n strength he would the tore ask lor the eai nest faith and prayers of the saints lie did not think lie conid occupy atio time mure profitably than by bearing a to the truth of the worn in which e are engaged today to day any of the rhe in the world fay anything in favor of me latter day they always preface their remarks with a kind of an apology they are guarded and in their remarks I 1 am sorry to to say tint some of the latter day saints seem to feel the same way when they are conversing without siders in regard to alie gospel they fee like they owed an apology for being s jatter day faint 1 dunt feel that I 1 owe any man au apology for trying to be a latter day saint I 1 have tried to nail my colors to the mast I 1 hava not received a testimony of the truth of this work in any marvelous way it has been a natural growth in the dark days of my youth when infidelity was growing strong around me I 1 craved 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