Show itoi at alie Tates acle and wliam B king we meed more religions Eeli gions el xi cation infidelity the usual SA abath fer ices af alie church of jesus christ of latter day saints were held at the meeting bouso on sunday president Pre aident david john pre the choir sang the time I 1 that happy I 1 me that great expected blesma day prayer was off red by elder II 11 A anderson Ander sou the choir sang ye children of our goj the sacrament has administered by the bishopric of tho fourth ward the congregation was addi eased by elder B cluff jr lie felt well in the work in which we are engaged and bore his testimony to its truth we see many bilings that lead us to alu conclusion that this gospel is true if we loek at the history of alie laster day saint we cannot otherwise than say anat ia at the head of this burk the prophet joseph wis that he could plan out a grand philosophy of religion if we might so call he was a mere boy in ancient limes plato wrote of a greit republic but the plan could never be carried out plato WAS an elderly man when lie wrote this book but joseph amith was but a young and unlearned boy we can believe that plato wrote the great republic be cause be was a learned philosopher but we can scarcely believe that a poor unlearned boy like joseph smith could translate alie golden records of the an 1 chent Nep hites without devine assistance science has demonstrated the truth of the book of mormon at arsi me DOOK was rejected because it spoke of elephants on this country and scientists had never found any traces of this animal bat in later years the bones of elephants hava been discovered in michigan ruins have been found in yucatan and central america corresponding with those described in the book of mormon joseph smith was not enough of a philosopher to know that these ruins existed moses was considered a grat prophet and leader he led the children of israel from egypt to the promised land only a short distance di otance but it took him forty years brigham young led this people over thousands ot miles of desert and it only took him a few months our ciders go forth into the world to preach the gospel they are persecuted mobbed and sometimes shot all of these things lead us to believe in the truth af the caspel have the sainta ever been aggressors have they ever persecuted those who did not believe as they did no this is another proof that we are on the right track there are many honest people in the world who do not believe aa we do but aliey are prejudiced when the scales of prejudice are lifted from their eyes then they will see as we do I 1 believe it IB a gift of god to belieka in this gospel therefore when a convert is made it ia not we who make it but god what must we as latter day saints do for the furtherance of this work do we know this is the vork of god if we do let ua chow our faith by our works if we believe in the principles of tithing let us pay our tithes if we believe in keeping the sabbath day holy let us observe that commandment and so on I 1 believe it is our duty a parents in israel to look after our children it is our duty to see that a faith in the gospel is firmly implanted in their bosoms if we neglect this duty it is as great a neglect a if we neglected to build temples we send our children to school that they may obtain beok learning I 1 frill not say that this is not correct but there is another school a home school which I 1 thick we sometimes neglect when it comes to moral and religious I 1 think it is the almost universal opinion of greit gre it educators that there is no school like the mother or home among the jews every home was a and every mother a teacher see what has been the effect of this although the jews are scattered to all part of the earth still they cling to the faith and principles of their forefathers it was so in ancient rome while the roman empire was in its greatest glory there were no district schools but every mother was a teach erand through the instructions of these mothers kome become great if there is adv defect in the education of the children chil dien of the united states today to day it ia the neglect of the home school what will be the result of this in the district schools no religion is taught during the six days of the week the child is to a certain extent under pernicious influences and on the sabbath day the instructions of the minister in the pulpit is scarcely understood unde stood the result is that we are becoming a nation of infidels infidelity is constantly on i increase we as battle day saints commence to educate our children right from the mothers lap and continued to the university then will we raise up an almost perfect generation we haye here every opportunity we live in the tops of the mountains and history tells us that people wh have lived in the mountains have always been a liberty loving people opened his remarks with u beautiful quotation suggested by the remarks on aducat on made by brother cluff A sn education will make a superior people our puritan fathers realize that the foundation of every superstructure was a belief in god and in the bible A change hag set in in the states in our schools and colleges there is a chair of every science and art but there is no chair of religion A halt must be called the nation must begin to recognize that there ia a god we needmore religion and morality we want sufficient sectarianism to lead us to abo belief that there is a god we want a government it is true we want order and peace but we want abaye all things faith in god we are too materialistic it is materialism on and infidelity on the left we want if you please a social revolution we want more religion schools have been established in the midst of the latter day saints which hava for their object instruction in religion an education is certainly faulty that does not build upon the rock of revelation we want therefore to day to increase these schools in our midst to increase their popularity W want to establish here a nation not an empire of men and women who ahall not be zealous and active in the things of god when the father ia outlining the laih of life for his sons h educates one to be a farmer on to be a mechanic one to a mer chant one to be a doctor and one a lawyer but be seldom considers their religious education the choir and congregation sang tb spirit 0 god like a ore Is domini tin lauer day gioia to come torm benediction was pronounced by |