Show SUNDAY SERVICES address in the meeting house hy james ahart ITEMS OF INTEREST ON TRAVEL Ile forms eliat the her Tal niage is enacting talk with david whit cuore some good instructions the usual sabbath services of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints were held at the meeting hause yesterday president david john presiding the choir sang u thousand flowers air with all showers prayer was offered by elder J F gates the choir sang alias on that daric that solemn night when powers ot earth and hell arose the sacrament was administered by the bishopric of the second ward president lames II 11 hart addressed alie meeting it v as quite a number of years since brother hart had the pleasure of addressing the saints of provo and he hoped to have the attention of the congregation while he stood before them when he first came to it was by stage coachi there has been a very great change since then provo ia fast becoming one of the great centers in zion I 1 take great pleasure in con granulating my brethren in the blessings bles sines 1 which god has showered upon them I visited this morning your graveyard the only members of my family who have passed away wore laid in your graveyard these years that have passed away since it was my lot to be with you have to a great extent been spent in travel I 1 have visited alie home of my childhood I 1 have visited the hill Cu where the book of mormon was found visiting these places lias caused many feelings and has tended to strengthen my faith during my travels I 1 have investigated many christian religions of the day but all of aliese investigations leave but tended to strengthen my faith in the gospel I 1 have heard alio great henry ward beecher speak also sir talmage I 1 have also heard some of the great atheists among them clobert G ingersoll ger soll but 1 have found nothing to equal mormonism so called no man says ingersoll has brains enough to know science has not revealed it that theitis a god we are here today to day worshipping shipping wor a god no man has power enough to scale alie the heavens and see god upon hiis throne aliis we admit the speaker then read the whole of sec appendix doctrine and covenants these are the worda of the lord to his people in these last days and thousands of elders have gone forth preaching the gospel and warning the people of the judgements judge ments which were to come we have adny bilings to thank our heavenly father for our flocks and our herds t ho streams and the timber on the hill sides our homes and farms but what about these afflictions that are coming upon us you say how about you people up in bear lake loosing all your local offices why I 1 think it will be a good tiling we have had the offices for a good long time in that time we must have laid by considerable means now that they are taken from us we will have time to go abroad and preach the gospel I 1 see by the papers that mr talmage is kicking over the presbyter ian traces he wanta to establish a new creed since alie electric light lias been turned on the old creed they are found defective he says wo something new something in hoeping with the times ho wants to build a churchon scriptural quotations quo tationa which will combine all the modern christian religions I 1 suppose lie refer to alie latter day saints but is not the electric light as apt to be turned upon the new religion as upon the old ones no church can eventually stand unless it is founded on the rock of the priesthood we are sure that god will cut hiis work short in righteousness alie day is near at hand when the savior will como to rule over his kingdom the ten tribes will bo brought out of the north we are told that the icebergs of the north are to be stricken away and the tribes of the north are to be gathered I 1 was reading the report of a great explorer that great changes were taking place among the icebergs of the north ice mountains in the north are drifting southward science does not explain this it is a mystery to scientific men there are wonderful events connected with this great work of the latter davff all we have to do is to be faithful and true and put our trust in god who dwells in heaven his son jesus christ lias pledged himself to carry this work through to victory you remember when alie heavens were opened to joseph smith and sidnea and they came forth and testified the heavens were open and they beheld and baw in my travels I 1 have met mr david whitmer one of the witnesses of the book of mormon he lias lie has been cut off from alie church I 1 felt great interest in visiting mr whitmer and conversing hiim upon alie book of mormon the old man straightened up and bore hiis testimony 1 I know there is 1 god I 1 have seen an angel from on high I 1 have seen alie plates of the book of mormon an angel came and stood before us and showed us alie plates he turned them over one by one he allowed us a great many more plates I 1 know those plates arc true he did not know whether the angel was moroni or not now how many testimonies would in take to negative eliat testimony the presbyterian church to which mr talmage belongs to have been sending mission erics to the heathen and now it has suddenly dawned upon them t they can be saved without this he calls it alie great electric light that was given to joseph smith all mankind will be saved in a degree of glory with alie exception of alie sons of perdition aliese remarks anat I 1 have thrown out on various subjects I 1 give you for your consideration consid cration let me exhort you all to be and diligent unto the end the choir sang an anthem nas pronounced by elder albert jones THE LAST SAD RITES brother thomas W jones i as laid to kest yesterday tho funeral sen ices over the remains of brother thomas bjones were bield at the meeting house on sunday services were commenced at 12 in singing by alio choir pray i as offered by elder abraham the choir sang unveil thy bosom faith ul tomb take ibis new treasure to thy arc st brother james hardy read a biographical sketch of the life of alie deceased decea aed brother jones was born at jhc Loster shire england april 11 1836 ho would therefore be 54 years 11 months and old at the time of his death of riet sant grove the former president of the branch in where brother jones had lived gaiu a high tribute to the moral charac ter of the deceased he asked that god might etre nethen the bereaved family tha they might bear up under their af we are altogether different frum the world on this principle we acel that shenza brother or a sister departs in the full faith of the gospel there is nothing to mourn over except a mere temporary separation they go to enter into iho glory 0 god ELDEB JAMBS E felitt aprie 1 elege to baya tear words on this occa sion inasmuch as he had been intimately acquainted with brother jones ever since he had been in prove there i HI be a vacancy both as regards brother junes abety as a and asi a brother and a friend lie has said alue he was sick that be felt that he was going to join the choir on the other side many of our choir have gone behind the vail and brother jones will be greeted by them brother jones lias been faithful unto the end and may god grant that we may also bo faithful that we may in time go and meet him before his death brother jones selected the hymns that he desired should be annc on this occasion we leave suns two of them and will sing at alie chloee of the services the other brother daniels concluded his remarks by reading over hymn on page of the hymn book ELDER SMOOT felt that there need be but little regret expressed on this occasion brother jonea was fully pared to eo he felt that this was ere is and he haa so expressed himself his usefulness in the church of god lias been referred to by the previous speakers and I 1 can testify that he was a good workman and a good friend may god comfort sister jones and the sons and daught and relatives of the deceased arnon his last words brother jones said to his wife do not weep for me I 1 am all right and god will take care of you DAVID jo EN referred to alie time when brother jones had first come to provo and to his employment iii the woolen mills I 1 birst met brother jones at a small town about four miles from nottingham we induced him to move to nottingham as lie was a gyc singer and could assist us very much brother jones was ordained a high praest a week ago yesterday he was not able to attend the meeting but some of the br ethera went down to his house and ordained him brother jones testimony in the gospel renewed a few days before liis death it is very comforting to know that brother jones should be thus favored by heaven may god comfort those who morn and may we all live so that we can meet brother jones PRESIDENT SMOOT had been somewhat acquainted with brother jones since he had come to provo he had seen many virtues but he had seen no faults this should bo comforting to know we should not except for those for whom there ia no hooe in the future it will be well if it can be us as it ia truthfully said of brother jones today he is ready I 1 would say to the family be comforted and do as amther jones lias done that you may meet him BISHOP EVAN testified to the truth of alie remarks made by the previous speaker brother jones has lived in the second ward and he has always been ready to perform whatever duties lie might be called upon to perform he biad great feitli but it seems that he had no faith that he would recover from this his last sickness my hope is that his family will follow in his footsteps that they may be prepared to meet him when they are called to pass behind the veil the choir sang omy fibber Fit ber thou that in the high aid elorius place benediction was pronounced by eddei simon P egertson jr |