Show SUNDAY SERVICES the usual sabbath were held in the provo meeting house on sunday afternoon Septem september bor 11 1887 at 2 p rn in the choir sang 10 lo I 1 1 the gentile chain is broken i freedoms banner waves waven on high prayer wits was offered by elder james I 1 E tal talmege e tile the mair choir sang on that dark that solemn night when powers of earth and hell bell arose 11 tile tho sacrament was by the priesthood of the first ward ELDER eicem K 0 said willis I 1 stand before you this afternoon my brethren and sisters I 1 most earnestly solicit your faith and prayers it is not as a matter of habit or custom I 1 make tills you lut it Is ia out of a conscientious desire to do justice to the subject which I 1 adall w ish to lay before Y you lai and also the importance 0 of it and th that a t my remarks may be acceptable before god bod latt latler arday ar day saint low how many hundred times havo have I 1 contemplated this term latter day saint in my lifes journey in the various emergencies in which I 1 have been placed and I 1 have a consciousness that I 1 1 have al always bays been striving to ba one and have covenanted before in my Ilea heavenly venly rather father to be one I 1 I 1 le emener member one sacred moment in m my native natho land and when I 1 was baptized baptised led sed I 1 covenanted before god that I 1 would brine e every v ery sacrifice before illan him it if ile he bridif we would d g give ve me ft a testimony of the truth of this work ever since then I 1 have contemplated upon this term latter day saint and have never found an any 0 ther other definition that is so com complete eilene it t is a person who it has as dedicated himself to god person od in all things soul and body in all his doings to in all meditations or of his heart in nu all life his cle desires alres his anticipations of hopes for the future in life and death to belong to tile the lord and the lord only and base all ills his actions all his thoughts all his endeavors all his interests interest upon that foundation that he belongs to the lord now if that is so we 1 in all 11 our weaknesses in all our short h A C comings in all our struggles and in all influences by which we MO are surrounded if in spite of all this we have by tho the help of God succeeded in making makine a few steps toward this great ideal of perfection to be a latter day saint how no necessary cessar it is to bo be over ever living true lives ives be before 0 re god I 1 I 1 address myself to young and old to men and women nil all aliveto ali keto reach that godliness and make us worthy the name in the eyes of god and before our own conscience consciences a latter day saint now then our life hereupon earth is a very complex affair it requires such a multiplicity of duties and responsibilities that upon our own strength we would make a failure and upon our own wisdom we would go and claiming to have that di director to lead us in the way not a director like lehl lehi and his bis brethren enjoyed in the wilderness but just as direct if we enjoy the spirit of god then when duty is IB to be discharged wro wo will not lot be under the necessity of retracing our ur steps in making mistakes that w would ou id be grievous to tile the lord I 1 do not my bret brethren bren and sisters intend to pass over oter the whole range of our responsibilities and all the various duties god requires at our hands bunds to bo be performed by the spirit of the living aed god I 1 will address my remarks upon one subject only this afternoon claiming your greatest interest in the subject and your faith and prayers I 1 shall speak in behalf our children in behalf of these treasures which gox god trusted to our keeping kee pine I 1 call them treasures the most precious of all who is there aman amongst t us who would not give everything ha has to save their live liyeh 11 to rescue them from destruction you u we would uld sacrifice all ail to save them thus we all agree they are the greatest treasures which god las has given us here upon earth pei perhaps haps you will say gay there la Is no necessity upon part of 01 one to remind t their air fathers and mothers in regard to their children because at the first glance they would say io do we not love our eona and daughters la Is not my any heart overflowing with affection to my children Is this not proof that I 1 take an interest in my children have I 1 not nursed them from their birth until now nursed them when sick cautioned them when liable to be harmed and sat over them day and night we have loved our children dearly above everything 11 if you have done this you have aye done well but you have not touched the greatest part the greatest erea test responsibility not one single iota because you speak now only of their little bodies you have nursed them in sickness and carded guarded them from dangers and prayed that the destroyer dest destroyer might not have power over them I 1 loyer but ut this ilia is not all god requires for inside of if that body lives the immortal soul eliat that lias has also been growing with that body upon onearth earth how ow what have you done fort for ug irit you 0 never answer wo teach them to say sav their little prayers we taul taught lt them to talk and sent them to school to learn all th those 0 0 things that are necessary in order to m make a ke anem intel intelligent moil men and women perhaps you have would to god I 1 could say all hail dono done this many have suffered their children to grownup in fix id idleness loness there are hundreds of children growing up in these valleys of the mountains whose fathers and mothers have not taught them anything they do not go to school they cant write their own names they have pei hapa been engaged in some occupation down the street with their playmates or in the canyons inhaling inh alln tome some little truths without tiny any practice tica L effort on the part of the hither father or mother who haye have never made an effort to instill anything into their minds I 1 flatter myself there are none of such hero this afternoon you have clone done this I 1 you have instilled into your children intelligence telli gence nee sufficient to gratify and nd ct them abe for or making a living in this world so that they do riot not have to call upon some one else to do their calculations and call upon r I 1 some one else smatter smarter than thease themselves 1 ves for these things suppose you have trained them up like this then inen have you done enough not kot by a long aye thero there is another station we would have to stop and say I 1 what next what next i now start my discourse all this has been preliminary we are all latter day saints and as such belong to god doing averyt everything ing according to hia 1151 holy mind and will no matter what I 1 it t la is whether we buy or sell tire hire out or employ sow or reap in the workshop or in the store whether whether we teach or preach abroad or at our fireside all that wo we can do must be done in accordance with the will of god thare there is none besides there is no marin into to alie right or left itco verB all wo we ain an do through eternal worlds and the education of our children belongs belong to that covenant now I 1 can commence these children of ours to care fur them we do not need the admonition of anybody an nature has written that th a t within wit airn our hearts the lien looks look s tor for her brood the animal looks looka tor for its i little atle one and 81 in this respect we can call claim no superiority above the animals but now w we aru are utter latter day saints faints and nd this mortal mortal sou soul I 1 of our MOO ones there before us needs training not only for or re requirements of life here upon earth that it ft might rut get along among its iti follow fellow beings but it must be trained up unto god christ chnat is u the tha great prototype of 0 all teachers 1 we ve bould should try to pattern after him there la in no going beyond him all we wa can do the best of 0 usia to feeby feebly try to follow him and ile bas oil ri ye c shall become perfect porte ct even as aa your father which la is in heaven beav en is perfect all else la Is failure allure whether it la is education or science or art or mechanism or anything else it it must all converge to that great centre we must reach it in some way I 1 have heard elders say they do riot not teach their children religion or anything until they get old enough to learn for or themselves god will mil toko take that child away from YOU vou you might have done everything else but if 11 you have allowed your children to grow up without planting lanting true seeds in their souls ui GOT god will censure you and a ind will ask at your hands tile the soul of that eliat lost child this is gods goda plan figuratively speaking peaking whenever you lillone finger from the head of that child there tho the devil will ft put life his flager finger I 1 hopa tho the fathers and mothers understand thin I 1 cant talk any plainer nw theno then what have we ft 0 done yes perhaps I 1 you yoa have sent your children cli ildren to bunday u aday school A perhaps caused them to go to young mens improvement alsoc assoc association bation or primary afave you bestowed such care and ad anxiety and in labor bor upon tho the salvation of your children as aa our elders eldera in israel should do according to the tha dictates of the spirit of god we han have a all entered into covenants in holy places and we ourselves ourse hes are responsible for ev every e evil vil that happens in 11 our households ficery ide now we havo have good schools thank here in provo prove my brothers and sl bisters and in this cou country a I 1 do not wish to make maka co compari m pari son on swo we have good schools an and d goo good d faithful teachers too all this is beautiful I 1 anil and right as far as it goes but unfortunately there is hanging over them a law I 1 will com compare pare this to a canate suppose there 1 la I 1 a rich soil etc an and a everything prosperous and you plant good seed there and it t commences com to grow a little but stops what Is ia tile the matter the climate Is too cold the plant c cant ant grow it grows perhaps to a certain Is in degree perhaps bears fruit hut but its fruit is not sweet the teacher did not make this thia law laft it was made by some soma wise legislator contrary to the voice and whisperings bithe of the prophet of god the teachers are sincere as aa far as the gospel is concerned but they dare not use uie their influence in that direction it an infidel all should u id come there is no law against him teaching but there is a law against the promulgating of the faith and doctrine promulgating of jesus C christ irist and against against the holy priesthood yes thero there is I 1 s no DO law against infidels teaching but this will not prevent the teachers in our district se schools bools from inculcating principles of truth and of the priesthood by example it not by precept nowa now a great many give president young oung credit for or foreseeing this dire calamity and to foster and make openings for better chances ho he started a pioneer institution right here in your midst here in provo provo was the place chosen as the first one in zion to start baart a school where words of the gospel dospel could be taught lie started it twelve years ago known as the brighum brigham young academy designed to b be tile the pioneer institution that childrens chil children drene who could not find means to come coma to provo could coald in the course of time 1 have schools in their own rles neighborhood J conducted by teachers 0 of I 1 t the he same me spirit schools school of this kind commence to multi multiply all are under the instructions of the parent t this thia academy at provo in this mattiel ir I 1 speak peak hesitatingly inasmuch as I 1 am a teacher there but I 1 bring it out in fit the spirit of truth to show shiow how bow greatly we i e have been blessed tile the advantages antares anta ees you have enjo ened I 1 I 1 d before all israel and there is tic no place ilace in zion so equally blessed as provo in this respect there are young men mon who have so sold id their last cow have worked hard bard summer and winter in order to come here from abroad to attend school and in many instances at a great sacrifice of their parents comport at home to have their sons und and daughters educated here but your sons and clau daughters you peo E 0 PIG pl III her aci la ia provo have bay e hai had no no sacrifice 1 Is to make your sons and daughters tile dis u themselves by their absence ting themselves tiby W why if you m make to the e coin comparison parison of some small settlements in our county you will find that 1 I will make no mention of names and try to control myself upon this subject while it is sparkling within me their percentage 0 of attendance is five times greater tx than that ot of provo now your own sons we find by the scores going up and down the streets and into saloons are upon tile the streets right now while we are in me meeting ting and you will find them by the scores on the street corner smoking cigarettes and tobacco and this right in tho the sight of that institution which the prophet of god has established you visit isi tour our mission missionary m meetings itinga at tho the academy and b bear er the e testimonies of our y oung men and womer women anil and see the spirit prevailing and if your bf art would not be moved by this it would be because you have no heart all these advantages are right within your reach there is not one tenth part of the sacrifice attached to you as aa there is to those from ther places but there la Is move more fit at stake than this what has the academy done for this town I 1 am not speaking peaking of the means it brings in presidents smoot and cluff have figured on that bat and it if amounts to a number of thousand thou dollars annually but there is another subject to be spoken upon look upon the influence this institution has produced here among the citizens I 1 I 1 and there is ia still something more than this the welfare of our sons and daughters is at stake they do not h have avo the spirit ol of the gospel within wit in them and the great work ol of these latter d days 5 they do not understand the a spirit rit of I 1 their air religion the board of trustees and lid teachers have worked faithfully we have obtained the blessings ol of the twelve twelve A apostles P 0 11 and their faith and ad prayers and d they have salt said hundreds of other institutions will ivill follow after you is ia zion fathers and mothers open your eyes and god bless you for ahat 9 hat you yon have done but you brethren and easters in provo cat caimol afford to be ba indifferent about this and let others come to reap the benefits to grow up in in the fear of god and love their fellow men it in light and intelligence slid and powe rIf you cannot cancel afford to send your children ask in I 1 faith alth and prayers for he help P some ono who has no son or daughter to send will help in the good work and send the sons and daughters of others and thus have his name enrolled in the good called vv by in the little town of monroe they have a club formed called the bri bangham haul young academy club whore where in tv they y raise funds and tend send those desirous L coming slid and who are riot not able to pay their own expenses and seven or eight t are sent in this way we we meet nith it it a fit hearty carty god bless you from the parents of children that have attended here wherever we go th tha 3 academy has struggled for twelve bems ye us and has overcome by the aid of god every power of tile the adversary and will continue ti nue to grow and when I 1 am gone bi hind tile the aall it will continue anil and others more capable will take my place but I 1 assure you yon no one more 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