Show MAY SERVICES remarks made in POLITICS ON president A timely remarks elder en nets discourse president ravid john presided at the sunday services the choir banff what was witnessed in abo heavens chyan bound etc opening prayer by bishop evan the choir once more we come before our god once more hia aleain ble ain tho sacrament ws administered by the priesthood of the fourth ward late of beaver was the first speaker he said it was somewhat unexpected for him to be called upon to address tie taints till he always acknowledge the po allion s pleasure pleas cre when one is aati ig rat be should always a butya delict de liht the speaker shad been identified with th church of jebus chaitt since hig earliest recollection and he had never once doubted tb divine mission of the prophet joaeph smith when the saints first came to utah they were the role ones here and met in thair gather lags with a unity of burp aaa now the cimei have changed and the saints have many trials to test their faith the speaker had no doubt but nany would be tested with the power of richea the time will b when we mast declare our love for god and whether we will aera ane church of god or mammon many 10 day it wa feared are neglecting their family and their tithes and offerings we should not neglect tebesa duties or if we keep the lore of the gospel in our hearts god will bleas us and joy will be our inherit ance elder begnett felt pleased that he would BOOB become a permanent resident of proto the city ia noted for ita education and that of a proper form and be all should encourage their children in deriving an education in the proper channel our children shoals grow up in learning and be plants of renown every youth in zion should be given the proper advantages were some of the cpr thoughts of abe speakers heart he loved to converse with douar men trained io our burca tc hoole it is a joy to hear their namos called for mis they usually make able workers they eldom lack for words in refuting the dogmas of the world the speaker felt wil ia our midst and prayed for unity among the in their together A 0 felt pleased in meeting with taj fad said it waa somo three months since he had booken in sunday services he felt that his voice was somewhat failing him he had felt interested in the remarks of bro geo Q cannon deforca taft academy students lajet friday hi discourse has created many freeh memories in my mind aid the speaker and the history of young i always to me him and the prophet joseph smith through the trying scones in kirtland they both have stood the tet ud their lives form interesting history A history of the prophet joseph smith i now completed and it is a work that no latter day saint should be without he had thirty eight ariale and arraign meat which form reading the prophet joeph smith sometimes employed stephen A douglasb Dou glasa a young lawyer who was very in his practice I 1 waa present when the prophet joseph told stephen the time ahal come when you will aspire to become president of the united states but if you turn boar back on the latter day saints vou shall never he elected the time did come when be was nominated and in making a speech ia indiana or illinois he went against the saints the werda that this Joa theoma sore be cut out he fell from that very hour and lost his influence among the people wo find that this has been the case not only with A douglaas Dou glaes who was a deiy brilliant man but other men who have bean our friends and turned ua have fallen thus god haa ruled and overruled ruled for his people we bare been tested in many hayg and some time have stood in im lament danger ahn cros eing the plains I 1 had the bondi cf conducting wagons god then opened the way upon the right haind and upon the belt when we got te Lar araie I 1 remember we needed and I 1 went to the quarter mabler offering to buy of him he inquired are you a mormon elder 1 told him yes he than said 1 I hare no accommodation to render you Furthermore you are taking choie people out to alarae and the united states ought to arkeat you and bring you all back well we hava fare pretty well here in utah true we have bad ome hard times for a couple of years we bad to pretty much eo roots aad greene I 1 remember when th bread had to be weighed out to u bat a happier people was never icet with wa loved the lord and sought him by day and by sight when we did haiie a crap abe tickets divided with us j they deemed to fill the very atmo phere when they caroo and the arouni was coya but the gulls cagna te our rescue we an ordinance that the guelf should not be destroyed dej troyed and they became BO tame that we could walk among them I 1 believe one baid would destroy more than a quart of ricketts during a day some called then and they were nearly eo to us then in a few yean we overcame these difficultly aad the boll wag more productive than we ever had read of some raised a hundred to th acre and by all appearances zion will be favored no influence are m our midst now politics which I 1 waa seine to say are a disgrace but I 1 badent aid it any way are causing good dul of personal feeling god in displeased with as are also bis we come to in our politics we are in danger mm should act in politics is in without each other personally pero nally so far as I 1 am concerned I 1 am a slave to no party in this regard I 1 stand as the prophet josi aph did you know are cla imio be waa a democrat and ka publicans public ans ara claidine cla he was a republican 1 think vary few today ID a well with the prophet joseph as I 1 wad I 1 was intimately acquainted with him when I 1 was a young man and they may talk as they like bat ho did not belone tu either party he was not one of your ca p i bae politicians he express eil icib view s on the government ia a little pamphlet pam phiet I 1 will not gay what the key to that wp but it makes me feel indignant iud ignant when 1 hear be was a I 1 know his politics and they were far above any political party is onward and upward and god baa been our reward he lias baen with us knour early si nes and he our leaders the prophet josepn was a treat spiritual leader j A though in financial matters he had not inich tact gold and silver waa noth to him except when he wanted it help build up thia kingdom then he would usually go to brother hunter who I 1 waa ft financier brigham waa another inspired leader A greater colonizer than be nver lived in any part of the globe gad inspired him in this work and all the colonies which le planted flourished I 1 knew president baikham young intimately and I 1 was to hear jeorge Q bay that he had never heard pres young utter one word against the prophet joseph I 1 aeva headd him say any thing of that iture myself ha endorsed the prophet josephs works to the full fitt extent president Pret ident smoot by referring to the unfinished condition of the tabar natele when the kirtland temple waa built there wa not as much wealth in tha whole church aa I 1 are is in fiovo laday and yet we have bosn eight yeara in netting the roof on the building when we should davs done in eight moats the admonished to lite that they might hadean eternal reward in the world to corn after a beautiful rendered by the choir service were closed with benediction by prea david john |