Show SABBATH SERVICES president gates remarks THE restoration KEST ORATION OP THE GOSPEL TO JOSEPH SMITH elder brown speaks on the proper youth of israel the usual sabbath services of the church of jesus christ of latter day saints were held in the meetinghouse meeting house on sunday afternoon at 2 prea II 11 H cluff presided in the absence of pres A 0 smoot the choir sang lord we chuie bearc thee now al liy aleut leut re bow pi tyer was ellered by elder S S jones choir sang 0 nt ire biow invoke rny moot tin rin was administered by lir af the second ward JACOB spoke of the savini recorded in holy writ that eye liselli not seen nor ear heard neither have filtered inlo the heart of man the which god lealh prepared for those who love him those who love tiie lord will keep his commandments inasmuch as our future liapes agui fi ir t are predicted upon certain conditions it bato live so that with ethehe conditions the principles of life and salvation believed in and practiced by the saint are not new they have been from time and eternity they arc so plain a wayfaring man though a fool need not err therein faith is the first and foundation of all these principles faith is the gift of god paul said without faith it is impossible to please god and wa know by experience that faith cometh by henring the words of god delivered by one holding authority hence it became necessary that god should reveal himself it is true there are a great many people who have embraced what they called religion but when we investigate into their claims and learn the source from whence they got their authority we are compelled to say they have all gone astray and there is none that boeth good no not one consequently it became necessary for god to restore the authority of the priesthood and for this purpose he called a boy with the things of this world and restored unto him the power and the authority that waa exercised by alie an chenta the spirit of god worked upon this boy and the lord fulfilled his promise unto him as uttered by tha apostle james he that lacks wisdom let him ask of god who to all men liberally ibe rally and upbraid eth none and it shall be given him or us we alio have already found the lord to ask our heavenly father for wisdom do we not need it every day of our lives can we absolutely get along without it not at all this boy joseph had this promise fulfilled and from that day 10 this there has been on this earth those who hold the authority and keys of the holy priesthood who can bear testimony that has spoken from the heavens and has committed the gospel to children of men that whosoever believeth beli eveth in its principles should not perish but have everlasting life after this foundation had been laid by jehovah the way was opened whereby men could repent of their sins and receive a remission of them by I 1 baptism after the father and the son revealed themselves unto joseph john the baptist appeared through whose administration the priesthood of tha order was conferred dpn him after a while peter james and john clothed joseph with the authority of the higher or Melchie edek priesthood and then was all former power restored and full authority conferred for the salvation of the human family malachi says before the graat day of the lord shall come the earth will reel to and fro liko a drunken man the lord also says through this prophet 1 I will send my messenger before me to prepare the way of the lord and who shall be able to stand for he shall be like a re finers furnace and fullers adap and he shall purge the sens of levi all things shall bs gathered in one before this great day of the lord shall come anen why should we ba adlo in this great latter day so much remains to be done not only for our own salvation but for the salvation aal of our dead have we not been told that they without us cannot be made perfect nor can we without dhembe made perfect the greatest re that rests upon ns as children of bodis to hunt up our genealogy and prepare ourselves to do a work for our dead in the temple of jehovah that we may stand as saviors upon mount zion never mind what the world may say or aliat they may do they will fight the truth as long as they have power we have beon told they would and we expect they will let us bear patiently the trials being placed epou usand we will finally become as briglia as the sun as fair as the moon and as terrible as any arcay of banners had been much interi asted in the remarks of president gates we should be latter day saints in very deed the practical part of our religion is what we want to get at the theory of our belief we all thoroughly understand but what we yant to do now is to practice alie words of alie lord we should sanctify ourselves before god and seek to five by every word that edeth out of his mouth the training of our children is one of the greatest subjects that demands our attention on page of the doctrine and covenants commencing at the paragraph oara graph we read of the duties en upon parents in zion in regard to teaching their children the principle of life and salvation before they arrive at eight yeara of age the proper time for the baptism of those alio have been born in the covenant we must attend to our prayers and see that we have alie spirit of the lord with us if we do so we will take a pleasure in attending to our duties in paying our and our offerings in assisting to build temples and feeding alie poor the choir sang the anthem lift up your head benediction was pronounced by bishop J P R johnson |