| Show sunday services the vicea in the meeting house sunday afternoon were well attended elder wm H king wag the only speaker the latter day saints should be as the sailors on a ahia who are el ways prepared to meet and dangers in tho past we have had many trials and temptations and now when all adems blight and manshine lets us not bo idle and want to rest and slumber beca neB if we except a place in goda kingdom we must attend to our duties and obligations the latter day saints profess that the world had departed from the truth of the gospel and that a new dispensation has been in by joseph asmith and we have called tha people to forsake their ceiaa and abomination but now let us see if we are holding to the truth or it we are like the Neph itea and the children of israel forgetting the mercies of gad in the past and are turning and worshiping richea and things of thia world the world today with allias intelligence a d Kin ledge of sciences ia no mora in truth than the people we raour or biye centuries ago it is because they have not the spirit of chiist wilh them it was only a few short years after he wae crucified that they forgot him and established religions of their own that were full of abomination and eina which sapped the vitality of many great nations and brought them down to degradation and destruction these vicea and alna are creeping in amongal the people of zion until it is aard you cant tell a mormon from a gentile this state of still increases and if we do not teach our children to be virtuous virtu and god it will not be long before we will ba like the world in every respect full of sin and vices of every kind god has called ua out of the world aa saviors and if we will guard against thesa evils and destruction we teach our children that hu neety virtue love obedience and all that is food and elevating is far better than all the I 1 riches and wisdom of men |
