Show of alie principles OF THE TRUE GOSPEL with science obedience remarks made by elders duff and Halliday president smoot presided at tho sunday afternoon meeting the choir gang 0 y mountains th clear blue ky etc prayer was offered by bishop evan tha choir sang now will tho sainta rejoice to tell and coat their buffering ocr etc the sacrament waa administered by the first ward duff jr addressed the congregation gre gation he had felt impressed i since arising this morning that lie would be called upon to address the saints there are many subjects connected with the work of god that tha elders of israel could on but it is necessary to select one of these and he must trust to the faith and prayers of alie saints that he may beguiled guided be aright the plan of life and salvation is a broad one I 1 dont know whether I 1 dwell too much on the materialistic or not but it appears to me that all the principles of the boppel can be explained on natural principles first wo are required to believe beli eye do you suppose that any student commences the study of chemistry or any other branch of study without belief we must also believe that is we mast have faith faith that wo will succeed in oar work second wo must repent can a man enter upon any scientific study with made up opinions if he has any he must lay them aside and commence at the beginning and so in the gospel we must lay aside all our prejudices when we enter upon our work of tion nest is baptism this is door by which we enter the gospel this ia a gift to us as is also the labina on of for the reception of the holy ghost th latter enables us to pursue our work with vigor and finar success we might take up each principle of the gospel and show how it harmonizes with the principles of science Weare today living in a gielata grand ind glorious school wherein we can gain a knowledge of the principles of the gospel we call this a primary school the higher schools will come hereafter we are taught to observe the word of wisdom we must not indulge in whisky and tobacco etc why because we should have strong bodies and if we indulge in cheso narcotics we will be weakened wo are taught to love one another we are given passions but we must not allow these passions to overcome us we are given a strong will power that we may prevent these passions from leading us we must not only develop our will power but wa must develop aur intellectual and moral power we should obtain more of the knowledge of the world than tho world itself lias if it is possible ignorance and the gospel do not go together we as latter day saints have schools eliat we may be educated intellectually morally and spiritually 1 know this people has been accused of baing opposed to education this is not true that is as we understand education we do not believe in obtaining a knowledge of the sciences that the principles of the gospel may be contro averted but that our strength in the gospel amny be made giester why does not god biye us knowledge some may ask but would this us any mental development you tell a a f act and that does not create much of an impression but if the child is taught to reason it out himself he will be gr catly benefited benefit ld thereby can we be accused of upholding ignorance when the very foundation of the gospel is intelligence obedience is one of the foundation stones of the gospel we as a people must be an obedient people we must follow our reason rather than our pas aiona our savior taught us a most beautiful lesson of obedience he went to john the baptist to be baptized baptised sed john knew that he wa the and did ant wish to baptize him suffer it to be BO that all righteousness may be fulfilled said the savior he desired to abey the principles of the gospel he has taught us many other lessons of obedience abraham and moses laught us many lessons of obedience we also find many lessons of obedience in the book of mormon we should each one of isseak to cultivate this principle ot obedience we must seek to obey all the principles el the gospel and in order to obey them we should seek for a knowledge of their truth Is there one of billious nil lious of people on the earth who can say that joseph smith was not A prophet of god no they may say they do not believe he was but they do not know it are there any in this church who can say they know joseph smith was a prophet of god yes hundreds of them then which should we accept the positive knowledge of the hundreds or the tirl belief of the millions my brethren and sisters latua be humble and obedient and not partake of the sins of the world that the blessings of god may rest upon us camy prayer in the name of jesus amen elder V L halliday desired to continue on the same subject on which brother cluff bad spoken tha ot the baptists Baptist ls a beautiful illustration of the principle of obedience the speaker referred to the invention of the by prof edison etc as an example of what had been accomplished by man if man can accomplish such wonderful things what cannot god Is there any doubt that every thought and act that vre perform will he recorded on high may god add his blessings and make us to see and comprehend the plan of life and salvation is my prayer in the name of amen the choir sang an anthem benediction was pronounced by elder TOS B kealer |