Show I 1 7 4 1 A I 1 1 1 I 1 AAM GOOD FOR ebb 1 I hIfle taught by bv v the savior THE WARNING VOICE itamar remarks ks of elder oluff cluff and president smoot at the meeting hous I 1 rr president eident A 0 smoot presided at the meeting house on sunday the first speaker was elder B cluff jr when the savior came in the meridian of time he be came for P definite pur pose he ushered in a now new dispensation of the gospel ile he taught a now new dottrina doctrina doc trina he said eaid loye love your enemies love lore those who use you etc the idea is ia this to 10 return reburn good for evil the latter day saints should not be possessed of a spirit of cf revenge against their enemies it the lord bad intended his bia words especially for this generation they could not have be been en more mora fitting th history of this people has been a history of persecution when joseph smith first fint spoke of his hia revelations there was vac a spirit of opposition exercised against him ile he had bad early to learn the tension to love his bia ener enemies nies As A the church advanced these perse cu eions increased but bat even while these persecutions were being heaped up upon on them the elders went abroad and preached the gospel they learned to love those who di spitefully used them the natural instinct of man would be to say asty if you bate me I 1 will hate hata you if you are my natural foai foe I 1 stand antagonistic goni to apu but when I 1 read the new testament euti must say this peonie carry out this spirit of the savior the jews hated christ so that they cr crucified uc i him between two thieves and he the saylor of the world Baft here was not the slightest spirit 0 of f enmity hebald 0 0 O father forgive them they know not what they do and so today when we read of tha eions olour of conr elders abroad we feel to R my ty father fi forgiver iv them thein for they know not what h y d do 0 we have men in our midst who have for years geors tried I 1 to bring us more nearly into slavery the world has become embittered a against adust us and yet it is not I 1 for or us 0 io o say eay you have hare tried to injure us now look out for we will injure you out cut rather should we say I 1 I 1 forgive or give them father for they knew not what ther do we owea owe a duty to 10 nian kind 0 those thase who have persecuted um u it 1 n the gospel to them and t ti 1 4 ii i i the example of a latter da day y sat sant them A humility oft of n irit iuar a r rl 1 and actions should alwaan I 1 fx r cisek so that the world if ih y il not care to hear us ua can at lo jest boast ast sia si a alf i icat it is ia to be it a latt latter aday day babut L i I 1 isicar 1 words we should preach th thy s 1 l el 1 by example example speaks londer tharl than precept but I 1 am pained to see ard I 1 belinte you von will bear me out in this thia that many many of us are becoming cai elees eless especially among we younger people tho the speaker referred to the new trials which were coming upon the saints the political divi division ion had en f n gendered strife andward and hard feeling i ba tween brethren under thess thesa cire circum stances the saints should ate ocise ei casai M the spirit of cf the gospel and from speaking evil evilo fona another president president A 0 smoot bore bare his hia testimony to the principles fet forth by president cluff if 11 we were of the me world the world would love loe QT but buta a we are ae not of the world the tha speak evil of us I 1 regret to 0 that the litter latter day saints have siren given the world a great many justifications in an fn speaking evil of us not as a whole but as individuals the proneness of the latter day daf saints to be forgetful of oar covenants jig ia what is the matter with us ua today i that is tha causa of the divisions refe referred to by bv brother cluff if we hearkened harkened bark hark ened to the still small voice we would not nave have these and back bi biti tings we live liva in in an entirely different dispensation from that of josaph smith he was the guiding chiding star of israel and the peor peo plo could say amen to his bisa instructions boutwe but we now BOW feel that we are dent of prophets seers anti and revelatory it is not only tha youth but the age aej J and middle aged aeed tho the priesthood is 3 not to be trifled with I 1 tell you there there are ara hundreds in the chuich today who would like to raise their bands to steady the tha ark of god it t is my my duty to raise my warning voiad vt cato to t che ha people neonie in my jurisdiction it is my duty duta to tell you that this pc peo 0 pie thousands of them thata are breake breaking ng their covenants they thay are battening to the temples and making covenants nants that will be ruinous to them it were far better for them that they never en bared these holy places the tha choir chir eang cang an anthem benediction was pronounced by elder eider george Mal Mol drum |