Show SUNRY mm SERTO SERVICE 8 s elder eider A IQ was iv as I 1 the speaker 9 skepticism TALKED TAT EDOF OF evidences of a living god elder alfred L booth also talked sunday afternoon alter noon the services were held in the meeting house bouse elder A a recent convert was the principal speaker he began soliciting the confidence of his hia hearers he arera and invoking the spirit of god to assist him while addressing the congregation and then branched out on the subject of skepticism it is written the foot fool says there is ia no god also that god said eaid let there bo be light and there was waa light skepticism we aretola are told is ia on the increase that the number of men in the world iwho any there is no god is ia growing speaker did not care to dis cuss CUBS that point but thought it passing strange that there exists biats at all men inen of intelligence intelli ganca gance who doubt the existence of a dod to him life would seera very void indeed and he would soon wish wid it over with if we go into nothing when we end this thia existence or like the oak return to the native elements from chanco hf inca our bodies came it seems that bat such an idea cannot be a reality in any intelligent mind for all our our eur soundings roun dines dings point to an governing vernine go power when the sun rises in the morning and tips tipa the mountains with kold gold la is there not a reason for thi this regularity of the heavenly orb I 1 Is there not intelligence intelli gance behind its mox mo tion decer to us all can we not see eee thousands of such evidences evi dancea dances around us every day which if we will canaida consider consi us ua to ft A belief in the existence of a god what are our family ties to ns as which are now so very very dear if but this life measured their happiness we have bare a faith nay more ore a knowledge which tells us there is a place beyond the grave where wo we may mingle with our family and be ba united with them in bonds of love if but we comply with certain conditions here below 1 91 I will confess continued the speaker that for a long lone time I 1 have walked in dar darkness kneas and at times even in despair but I 1 never no never have doubted the existence of a god from my boyhood days I 1 have always been a member ember ra of some church sometimes Sometime al I 1 think tho the teaching of my father who was waa once a member of this religious association have clung clang to me through life for I 1 lava nevor never doubted that god is I 1 have found it ny jy ex exi I 1 peri ence as I 1 have also noticed the th same earns in others that there has beed something lacking in the faith of a inquiring mind after truth while a presbyterian one can believe in predestination and devotedly oray or a y to god night and morning and still feel some gome graying craving of the inner soul which is ie satisfied I 1 have seen the same among the methodists and among the baptists baptista how often in our oar class meetings after a week of christian conduct have I 1 not heard men testify their belief bah ef in jesus christ and tell how hov well they would feel could they but know they belonged to the savior I 1 have tried to say say the same and know how bow hard bard it was it there is anything in religion it must satisfy that inmost craving of the soul god cinat be the same today as an he has haa been bean in the past and if he ha could could reveal H maek in farmer generations cene rations he surely is able to do so these days it is such euch a god that I 1 now glorify J elder thought that with our claims claim and knowl knowledge edze we ought certainly to be ba a superior people in all that pertains to christain conduct lie he thought the people of this town could be more circumspect in attend attending lag their sabbath meetings but bat I 1 know that some boma times it I 1 is s bard to ba b a a christain tain he be went on to say flay there have grown into practice cartain formulas in religion which have come to be ba considered orthodox ortho fox Jox and if you yon want to bo be considered well of by bv old acquaintances you must subscribe to some orthodox leli gun but what matters it though our name is banded boat about from tong bongie as to tongue aud and we are evilly 4 of because of our religious belief I 1 myself have not taken upon the religion of christ chiist for the favor of men and if they speak evilly edill y of me now I 1 have the satisfaction of knowing that my Savior was also reviled what matters the jeers or taunts of men just so I 1 obtain the crown of glory I 1 have set out to gain the tha speaker closed by saying that be as had noticed a feeling in the community that may have arisen from a well known cause but which he believed should not exist that brothers should bo be on brotherly terms terme could admit of no doubt 1 I know not gothow bow it may be with others said eaid the speaker ant I 1 haya have repeatedly met bretherd br ethern who refuse to speak to ne jaa I 1 have sometimes som times thought it was waa of my well wall known political I 1 want to say right now cow that while 1 I have well wall defined political still if they are to conflict with my friendship for a brother so I 1 cannot meet him aud and speak with him as a brother I 1 say nay parish politics the speaker thought it was a frightful thing that brothers should differ so ardently over politics as 19 to come to blown blow E elder der A L booth spoke for a short timo me endorsing remarks of the former speaker and relating the experiences of of his mother when she aha joined the church lie he then talked on thi the congress of 1 religions i 0 a and said aid the mormons cormons being the old religious sect excluded brousha forcibly to his mind the saying baying some wherein where in the book of mormon that thera are save two churchia church ps pa 11 the sects of the world had arrayed them selves salves on ona one side aide and the other churches on the other side eido elder james jamas E daniels who presided ban taken somewhat to himself the remark or 0 eller elder that bret beethem bein had avoided speaking to him he ha had probably been of that number for up to t three bree weeks ago said elder daniels 1 I was not aware that brother bother laxey had become a member of our church I 1 thought he was a gentile republican and I 1 know knew I 1 was a mormon amorton democrat and you know how a mormon democrat and a gentile republican can embrace each other but now he could in e at brother on terms of equally an and d after saying amen he be heartily shook his hand band |