| Show T J iga ti i i jj SABBATH SERVICES elder John Foote speaks in Eel atlon to the ospel gospel G IT HH ami use Ini prints or truth are discovered its principle le obeyed tiie usual sabbath services of the church of jesus const ot hattei day saints berc bield at the meeting house on sunday the chair sang hark listen to the they for volume cr araj er was oh ered by alder william meldrum the choir sang behold the farat A IJ 10 the sacrament wa wai i administered liy the bishopric 0 lie bond vid elder jolia buoie hi addressing the felt he ah in u peculiar lie tjien fore rely entirely on alic spirit of god A pt ri on in this lequinca lequir ca tu ut the lord if he would say t benefit himself or hib fellow ci in tends to make a acin A ietter man we ha 0 o aiken apoi u work that vill make gihl lii li nill perhaps ho agea lei re 0 o will reach that stage of to aich tho father and hia son ilive but if vu do reach that po peidon idon it must be through the gospel ve claim that alie gospel which we have accepted has come direct from heaven and that no man has biad anything to do nith the this su pel ex dept as an agent from heaven J he question with us then should be is this ali a true gospel ever roan should examine the gospel to see if it bears the imprints ot truth and if it does it should be accepted and its principles obeyed as strictly aa possible we claim that the gospel was established in alie meridian of kiino and that corruption coi afterwards crept in and alie loid withdrew revelation from the earth we claim that the gospel was afterwards revealed in all ltd purity it was foretold by the savior himself and by his apostles that the gospel would not remain upon the earth the baior spoke to hia apostles concerning this shortly before his cruci fiction ho told them that alie temple would be torn dwon and the city of Jerus laem destroyed you will find this in the twenty fourth chapter of matthew alie whole chapter is devoted to this subject the savior realized that after corruption should creep in there would arise false christs thu christs would be heard of among the children of men but he warned them not to be deceived missionaries have been sent to the remotest corners of the earth by modern christianity it is expected that africa will be le deemed and the brought to a of the standing their great labors among the negroes they have scarcely converted a single if it were not that perverted christianity had done some good I 1 believe thero are heyy few among us who would have the true gospel we would still be he athens we would detill be bowing doyn to images of wood and stone the jews do not believe that chrict has come at all they havo no faith in the christ chev can sae nothing farther than the law of this perverted christianity haa preserved some of the truths of thu true christianity so teiei o teachers tear hers aho vho leave labored for ahe we d eight hundred years have gioi in vain they liann minds jor something higher unit b iter wo understand that lit inne if coitan tine an attempt war auriti lu iv gospel 0 with pagan iMn aud tie succeeded in d fiig so ir a aji extent thai day christianity haar to a certain extent been united with paganism we land that none of alio of christ except judas the betrayer had this alone would bhoj that christianity had ceased to exist jf nc gibli to accept thae pridu aples ii t will build us up we the world and p found e must accept them if jod cleal witia opo eon iby un another hon v cu bild not lionor and respect him lu v find that bod is juat and will reward those who do good and will punish those alio break his laws it w a natural heritage of man to look beyond this life for reward for the good ht may have done and to expect punishment for his avil deeds we as a people have accepted greater light by which our path is illuminated lumina ted farther than the paths of some of our ancestors and more will be expected of us we bear our testimony to the world of the troth of the caspel but what evidence have we to show any one can say they know a thing to be true we can testify by the spirit I 1 of god and we have also the scriptures we arc sustained in conr faith on every hand we a god who i matt rial and substantial i j tiie teachers af fo day with all due respect to teachings for much good results believe in a god without body parts or passions ife ii i i a possessing no attributes of love feeling hate anger or anything else we claim eliat the angel lias flown through atie midst of heaven and has revealed to rhe world a god body parts and passions the prophet joseph visited many of the religious denominations of the day ho saw there vas division aud strife in there ho went into the woods to pray that knowledge might be given to him to determine which was the true gospel he was told that none af pf them were right god and the son appeared and spoke to this boy hebe held them with liis own eyes and that very moment was the theory exploded blat god was a god without body parts or passions thero are many evidence in the earth it seems to me that the gospel is true but there are many who will will not receive the gospel in this day and dispensation brethren and sisters let ug who have accepted these truths walk in that straight and narrow pith eliat leads unto eternal life alie choir sans the anthem blessed ary y who do ha commands benediction was pronounced byeller by Elder S S jones |
