Show SUNDAY SERVICES missionary report by elder C U davis at the stake tabernacle services sunday after afternoon nOOD elder moses mosea C davis one of the brigham Brieba aa young academy pro professors fassois fes sois who has been spending his vacation on a mission in colorado made an interesting report of his labors he had labored in fremont county the gold region where he had met people from different parts of the country ard ald ar d wita many shades of be lief he ee bad seen some hardships as well and related an instance of one woman with a large family of children haying baying to pack wood from the hillside in storm or auns bino bine and chop it into kindling wood for support eup port in his missionary labors elder davis said he was thrown in with some of the leading men of colorado he mentioned one mr clark editor of a socialistic paper and second in the masonic frater anity of the state mr clark confessed many seek esek membership in the masonic fraternity for the advantages the tha order Is id to them in case they are caught in crime mr clark said that utah was today presenting piea pies entin enting the most practicable ayE temE of s social cial reforms in the worlds world and all leishing lea leisi ing thinkers were watching the litter day saints on that account with deep interest traveling men were met who do business in utah ana they confessed to the speaker that ohp th mormon doctrine was unanswerably from a bible standpoint but they pointed to the saloons and social conditions in utah saying the people here were no different from the people there and they 1 our doctrine ought to be pre preached sched here at home they felt like preaching it them themselves selves vea some sometimes timea many luany infidels are foaad in colorado lorado Oo the town of florence seems half h alf made up ot 01 that claes one said to elder davis religion is ia all a fraud lehme let me give you an example one of our mini stera collects collector 50 cants a mouth month from a poor baor widow supported by our ul order d r she was in a starving condition and we asked ask d him hica to help her but he had no time po do you think I 1 can believe in religion of that mud kind and then all this talk of a god on a topless throne to whom we will have to sing an endless song of praise is too dreary for me elder davis said he labored much with this class showing them there was reason in the gospel of christ and had the plea pleasure ure of baptizing one young man to ano an others hers daughter tie be had administered administer eJ and she bad retoY ered from fits bishop 0 F whitney closed in a lengthy doctrinal sermon it is not always the lault of speakers when their sermons are dreary it is more often the fault of the audience who do not exercise the proper spirit to draw out the speaker president young and heber C kimball use to say that it was much easier to talk to a body of the priesthood than a mixed meeting eldora elders all ai know that it is easier to talk to latter day saints than strangers speaker then dwelt on the preparation of the tha people for the millennium millen iuni which must be ba in each heart and of the final gathering of icrael and the restoration of 0 the ten tribes |