| Show president woodruff preaches I 1 the services at the tabernacle sun kin day afternoon were of special interest because of th the e appearance appe aranca in the pulpit pulp lt ot of president woodruff the venerable head of the church has hag not been seen in public since sinca the jubilee and then his condition was waa quite feeble yesterday Yeste rJay howader ho waver he be showed marked improvement and sooke briefly with his old time vigor A large number nu in of strangers were present and t they hey were deeply interested in his remarks president joseph F smith als also 0 spoke president Pre eident woodruff began with a re ference to the late pioneer celeb celebration ration which he said had bad been a surce 0 of gr great eat pleasure and gratification to him it was waa a landmark in the hister history y of gods goda people which would rever cover be forgotten it recalled graphically to the minds of the pioneers pion sera the days when they toiled through cold and heat beat over the plains and the subsequent view of the great valley with its bare and forbidding aspect to which god had led his h 18 people deop 18 speaking of still earlier times president woodruff metered ret rete ered ired to the time when joseph smith reached to and blessed his people at nauvoo NL auvo it was shortly before his death that be called the twelve apostles around him and delegated to 10 them the aut authority hority to carry on gods work blen they arrived here whither god had directed them thiem brigham young and the apostles were the only men vested with the authority which carries with it the keys of the kina kingdom durn and gives the power to bind on earth the erection of the temple was the fulfillment of cods plan and the breaker recalled t the he day when birgham young touched the ground with his cane and aad said here we will build our temple subsequently a stake had been driven dirven by the speaker in the place which the prophet had bad indicated herald |
