| Show SUNDAY SERVICES tile the regular religious services af Q tile the church of jesus christ of 0 latter day saints were held on sunday aug 14 1887 1997 at 2 p in elder 1 I bullock presiding choir sang fin in the mountain tops appearing lo 10 lot I 1 tho the sacred herald stands prayer choir sang on that dark and solemn night when powers of eart carthand hand hell bell arose to tho the sacrament was a ministered by tile the bi bishopric s he tic of the first ward ELDER TIIU was not much of a preacher but felt I 1 to magnify the position he had been called to occupy in speaking to the people had alad returned home from the penitentiary where the lord bo had ld been merciful unto him knew tile hie lord would bo be A fill I 1 ills I 1 Is people in asmuth as they were true to their covenants referred to the religious held in with the con evicts which were sometimes attended by us many niale male persons persona as there were present preheat belore before him much good anstr instruction had been g given I 1 yet in ill lucli meetings mee meetings tinus they vere also very orderly and attentive god had bail blessed him bim with health and strength and had been with him by b ills spirit during iiii his incarceration there was certainly no pleasure attached to the life of ofa a prisoner only what lie he made whereas there was any amount of ini misery had observed the rules governing t hiie to inmates of 0 tile penitentiary and cons consequently antly had no trouble while there felt ly to acknowledge the tha hand of god in a all 11 of his trials and knew that they were tor for thu tho purpose of trying aing him as to his hia stability so far as the kingdom of god was concerned although there are moments ino ments in our life v when hen everything seems dark and gloomy yet t we see through it all a glimmer 0 of light that gradually grows brighter and brighter till all is sunshine and gladness glad again and so it is with the trials that beset our pathway our faith should not decrease through such scenes but rather increase and grow strong in tile the power of god felt like praying to god at all times to strengthen the brethren re thren who w were to in prison both in body and in m mind ind as it was nas quite an ordeal for the brethren to pass through hail gained quite an ail ex experience ermence while there yet if lie could gan gain hs experience elsewhere lie ho would gladly do so BO lie never felt despondent however now over but was always buoyed up with mith tho the spirit of I 1 god referred to tile the visits of a ferelle female missionary ar once e a month to the penitentiary w who 0 once on c made amade a beautiful and true comparison between the imprisonment of 0 the body and the imprisonment of the mind tho the former being it a small affair c compared ompa red with the latter itter li was glad to state late there was a good clean place to eat cat in at the penitent penitentiary larr now and it was the object of the als to keep the lie place in a neat and cleanly candit condition 0 n ills speaker then boro bore liia 1113 testimony to tile truth of the work of god od saying say I 1 rig that there was no other name under tin d or heaven ahei whereby eby man could bo be saved only that of 0 jesus christ ELD fit jolli JOHN B desired to 1 it b by the voice of inspirit inspiration 0 n that te tho faints saints might bo be inspru instructed ct e in the ways of the lord some homo of tile the brethren brell iren thought something extraordinary was to occur in 1891 possibly possible there might be no doubt some were inspired ni I 1 to look foiw forward aird to that period as a time tima of great gre at events in the kingdom of oe god and this is the calling of tho the elders providing they live up to their privileges in ili our own experience wo we have seen been some of the prophecies es fulfill fulfil fulfilled led yet they were v ere not let till all fulfilled and we do not know when they will occur tho the jews looked forward to the tha fulfillment of the predictions r di of isaiah and expected to see a government of power upon the shoulders of jesus christ they had an idea that when nihon jesus came lie he would bo be the literio stone cut out of the mountains without hands that would crush tho the other governments into powder and be established in power and dominion fils chis was w as 2000 years a ago and yet this prediction was not in fulfilled 11 led then and only I 1 now 11 w in ili our ago age has it partially came to pass and thus it is that gods ways are not as mans ways for as the heavens are high above the earth so eo are gods god 13 wave wava higher above the ways of men and it is the same with the predictions of ills his prophets we sometimes set our times upon their fulfillment like tile the jews at artlie the christ but like them wo we are often deceived but wo we ha have vo been led I 1 step by stop step in I 1 the choki kingdom 1 adom of god and a nd if we had bad teen seen evera everything thing of the e end C d from the beginning every crery step in I 1 n our lives wo v would undoubtedly have I 1 I 1 aye evaded some some things that looked r at her gloomy but vi hach were for our final perfection and exultation exaltation the alio saints have to walk by faith and not by sight eight if we could see naturally without v leaders and revelation andre there would be no necessity for leaders and revelation if gods ways w were ere the ways of would then bo be the smartest 0 6 t man who would accomplish the th e greatest greate bt results there has never leen I 1 ee n a move made by the latter day saints sai n ts recording according to revelation but what it seemed very peculiar lilethe like the settlement I 1 of utah mill it certainly did seem strange that th the lord should select such a barren desolate looking country like utah to 6 be the zion of the last days and thus thua it Is id that wo we are not net allowed to know the provi dences 0 of tile the almighty mighty ile he is working out ills his own provi provinces pro dences nail and a destiny tor for the latter day saints that will be a grand triumph tor for ilis his people when they shall behold it knew that the brethren had no ill feelings on emerging from the prison but lather rathers a spirit like jesus jesua experienced when hen lie bid bald father forgive them for or they know not what they do and undoubtedly this is one of the les lea eons bons the tha almighty designs to teach us no one of humility and ani dependence upon upon him and it is ft a lad fac that w we e can only learn such lessons in certain ways undoubtedly the lord intends to teach us a lesson of liberality and ile ho has ilia his own peculiar pecullar vay vity of teaching us there la Is a great deal in the injun injunction c lion given by christ in ills his sermon on the mount nt ludge judge not that ye be not judged there are men appointed appoint eil to be judges in israel such buch as tile bishops and their counselors counsell coun selo r B but we sometimes Bome times set up ourselves as judges judges and judge and pro probably ably this is one of the leagons the lord designs to teach us that our standard of judgment ii not as 0 standard of heaven the lord al mighty has great many lessons that ile desier us to learn apostle moses thatcher i sail that he did not expect that me ab present judicial crusade would cease until the brethren and sisters would be ba truly liberal liber to all until m men n w ali c sr ar called upon to be judges in israfl israel would learn to judge cases and not men the speaker then prayed that the day would on when men in all the world would learn to judge righteously irrespective of meu men I 1 pa party arty or creed that god in ills his mercy would liberate ills people and cause that zion might be redeemed from her oppression the choir thin sang bang the anthela antu eui daughter of zion benediction by elder karl 0 |
