Show SUNDAY SERVICES Elder D 1 KobcrJs Oremfi the Stand at tIre Tabernacle Religious services were held In the Tom Salt Jflke City Sunday Sun-day March n 1690 commencing at 2 p m Cbunelor Charles W Pen rose presiding The choir sang the hymn commencing com-mencing Inpirr ot lie And1 Seen Who wrote from Thee the Mere J lg Prayer by Elder Elias Morns i The choir sang the hymn Glory t God On high Let tearea and earth reply rpy 1 rahe je Hia name Tlie Priesthood of the Thirteenth Wan officiated in tire cdminktra ton of the Sacrament KLDtJl n II 11OBEBTS was the speaker After a feu prefatory pref-atory remark he said tat nu work In which the Latterelay Saints are engaged 1 truly a uobe one joto calculate1 to Inspire great thoughts within men and to fill their lives with noble 11 JVC noll deeds 1 la agreat work in the cycsof tlioe lYCof1 thOe w ho become rcquaintcd with It i isa l marvtiioua work I was BO styled by Alnitirhty toAlmhhty before the Church was organized Inn number of the cry revelations that were gu en to the Prophet Josfjih previous to its organization yen will find this son euce > A great and marvellous work is about to go forth among the children omen and tomeuliPix In thins revehtions I added his other rxprfslou How great Irt ye know no The angel Moroni ornl had vile Jceph Smi h I a numbrr o if times and limlly committed ti lira the ancient record of the Se ihites which he was then engaged In translating To the Prophet Jowph audi few others who were utimatu with him at this time among them lljruin Smith Did Whltmcracd Maninllams these revelations wire given A short time atttr thIs we are Informed John the Bai t noting under the iresldencj of Peter Jaiits arid I I John Vkiled Joseph Smith and Oliver Tnurilcrv nut Tlif inr lit hands upon tluir headshecouferreJ upon them the Aaronlc Pneethood which gave them tbe right to reacli repentance t this generation artI bai tins Uio who would repent for the remission of their 11s I I the seine year tire three ancient nJtl > Pt tel June rind Join who held the keys of the lr < Uency of the priesthood when they were upon the earth ivitell Upl lr Urn great proi Iiet of this diiienta ton and bebtoxveii upon him tire po tlevhip which give him the right not only to ndministir in preaching reiwuUnce and l timor tim-or the remission of sins hut whicU i made him C minister of the spirit also Ho had now the authority to by oj hands for tho reception of the Holy Ghost ho had r1e the right to ordain len to the higher priesthood to ordain them High Pritfcta and Lidre Sevuutes nnd Apostluss to organize and liuiltl up the church on the tarth They went forth declaring these glvl tiding adminitering in these onlinancts and their hearts Wtre 83 inspired that they not cult felt the influence of thebpintof Cod within themselves lot others likewise felt Us poweroperaliug ujon Urea until their hearts were torched with Ie lief conviction entered their souls and tnoy olieyed tlienif Bajeof God Yetnfterall thrtswhichr was mon Gram cccl the advanced thinkers ol that day had J dimmed hope ort work which the Lord had rromieu establish was still in its infancy anJ hrd not be iin to unfold Ii wonders its height or It dIn d-In the ear l 5 thin Projihet began be-gan to > i > utn to the Church about or ganizingand odainiiig Apostles alL Seventies and to fill theftquonuir men who hid demonstrated limit faith by their work Were caller I seems to me that from the Gnu theo quorums were ofani tit uiiIouarj spirit In the Chunlt r celved an increased imietu They succeeded in preaching time Gospel l in nearly all tbefatncsuf theAmtri can Union i uumberof thC went into Canadaand from there the wotk spread toKnglanu and tlieturrouml lug countries MicMonanes have visited almost all the nations nf the earth Xiitlier the frozen noith nor I the burningioulh was to much for tht ir faith and seal Everywhere they went they received afuls fur their hire and the ChurMi Jlldl I iucreafcd in numbers as It I Increase in faith Still the grentne of the work was not wholly unfolded after the Church was thus f completely ofllccixd with au inspired PrImal heel hol holWtn the Klrtlnnd Temple was completed and there wn n plan where heavenly meergors anglii visit the Church of Chri on the I earth tinny came with the keys of their various dispensitions Iyali came trains came the avjor riiiu self visIted them and told them of His acceptance of the home times bad erected to His l YyI name and 1 yet for a season would MCIU tint the missIon whleh thee angels lint come to liJlle was not apparent I but by and bye it became f for I great light luivt in mirror the under ttandiug of men and through the II key of power aid Prhvthooi Ie stored by time Prophit ElIjah wcl lit cam aware if lbs At that the Gorel of Christ was uA confined to tliebrieftriMl of time inuhivh this earth should contlnut itfctyn loral l exitenw but that in tIlt ingages and eternities If i God will I Yf tlieriretigth and lower of the Gi s pel of Clirkt nud its avinginlu ences would b operating iniuni the IiiMrenof our Father and our till Vekuddenly liecameaware of tha fact that there was no longer need for tit it have nm particular I anxiety anxie-ty concernlu tire lathers who herd perished on the earth when the Gegal l was nit here that the ann of GOd justice was long enough t reach the Pagin nations tLat had tver lowing down to images of wool and nonf for through the keys of the Irktlhocil rrraled by thathea enlj mes nger we leanuCl tliat the pint of men who lied pa efl behind tlie veil were taught the principles of eternal truth were thrre Instructed in the Gopel of Jesus Clirit After the ancient Proihetsand Ap tesand men o Got had paed beluul I the veil they did not tit down tuplneli ant tin nothing more for the oalvitioi of tire children of our father Wo learn that the keys and authority of the priesthood u I hl they held Ire timey still held there and wire min litterIng for the salvation of their ftllow men Vo luarn to lie ex lalolxrs with thtm that weld we-ld built tempks to tire name of God and that hen we could attend to the temporal temp-oral stork of Uiog baj tlzetl for tbot who hal paved away without tlu knowledge of the gospel 1 want to know If these grand principles did not throw aide the vail tint separates separ-ates us from tho eternal wurlJ and bring us into closer nnum WILl i I them 1 itI seems to me as I contcm plate how and how the l I Il gnat grand k 7b bo work Is that in going on ehlnJ the vail l that our conception of this work Is something like our smetln lke olr concep I lon of the size of an Iceb rr cnCp I I estimated that nine tenths of a pie floating ice lies below the surface hidden from our Men and those of us who have seen those fn I huge mountains of icefloatingtloxvn tbe ocean must remember that the car which i above the surticc Is I but t onetenth of the great min 0 it is with this I I work in which we are engaged Tho little that wo do here is 3 tbe pinnacle of the Ire berg that may be ecvn by far the greater view portion L hidden from our Through the visitation of those ministering angels in the Kirtland Temple we received further I knowledge i edge and tbe work of the Lord was I I more exposed to our gaze Our i I fathers and their fathers before them for generations and genera lions when united through our mothers and their mother fr i generations and generation prectd Inc them seemed contcuid to b united In the binds of matrimony I until death did them part Uutj I through tho light mid knowledge that the Lord revealrd throuch Rha chosen servant wo tell that the principle It made known and has become common to us that we are not unie anmy longer to our wives until death shall snap the cord of lifr but we are united to them for time and for all eUrnit We liav i > arn < d that the family association hat the ties of love which exist be tntcua man and wife betwie narentsaud their ofTipring are ot limIted to time alone but thit they continue t contribute con-tribute t cur Iiapplms throughout all thocges of eternity tliat the privilege of multiplying and Increasing ho not conllu d to a rw short lr of wedlock In thk life but as one of our writers f beautifullyexprasn lLer long ar tiieru I element in the great store house of nature N long as there is I room In infinite space so long a the iKHom of the daughter shall glow with atfcction just to long shall the nsind danrgiitersofGd bemultl I plied and their kingdoms added tn the kingdoms of our God constantly cntlUy IncreajugHis lancer HIp domlu Iou and His glory A great and 0 marvelous wok n about to be Intro duced to the earth saul the l ord and If I wo hao examined those few things pertaining to i tell me is not the predlctiou fulfilled rletou ulfle has not the Lord kept hit word lu time UI fUment of His Church theout iues of which I have briefly and miierfeetlv tketcliMi Hut then as ycte are merely Ike children pbjing upon the upn beach We have simply gathered a tow irttu shelU aim jiebtiltH l urn the beach but let me ay tint the jreat ocean lies bore us still un x lored nnd still unknown Sue lit I the marvelous work as I under untlr stand its development thus far Vow In the iniJt of this unfold nentof tliepurtnscsof of God and the ntelltgeuce of heel side by side with J his brenr a glorious experience experi-ence for the SainmIs The purposes of Gui have not failed I but tlu j art being iceomjilihetl in Ito of all tie droll tlmt have been and an being made to Oppose them Our pathway 1m rpH strewn vith suro8 Jkow agrcnt maiij who rireiut uierflciaIIi acquainted vitliourhi tory mav b inclined doubt that fimey may ask Wire O tuattful in Missouri from inch jour church was driwn Wereyou MiciTsful in l Xauvoofrom hl O were exiellfd Han 0 Un uiccoful in this Tegrh tory where jour enemies han ile triumjih atir triumph over yu Yl we loam 1 beet I HICCVM ul in the past mini we are tuicet ful today lAt me call jour attention t s few Items that umy illustrata tub emlnglj I paradoxical position which I have taken Then wer given t tire Patriarch Joseph h tin v > I of Jacob in ida youth a number 0 viiinni Among them I remim lee was one wherein he drramed that in harvest time when all tht lieaes of grain in the held had been gatliinti together liisbrotliers lieavtscKmoRUd bUn to hi On noiher OI iou hu sat the sun the neon ont tle tars doing obi I rune to him Iutlhese tlnngsoof eirdeil his elder Irethnn anil on ne0 lon when he isjted 1 tliemat Home distance from hisftthen > home they caiituied him and said Lvtus J1 I now sell this dreamer1 They up varwl to understand the intirjireta thom of their brotliers dnims The erenied to know that they mut low t him if fluff things were fulfilled nJ salJ iInt ua now cut ofTthis reamer that l b not In sumljec lion to him IHvinj csftund him they mobil him iiitQ silvery He went iitto j gjp le Ml into mi urtuncs then ajtl D cast into > rison etbJAeetM Did this look as if tint was the path ti mpire awl cuntrol and tivuiinioii over iriS 1 flow Ami bow did i i eniunalfc Why the very e > 1 that his brethren sought t dc brim was oimPy the tncaus of ringing to IMS the cry thing they riummeul tUJuld Hu WHS solo into liryIt asi sliM but Ootl WAS with him and grimed him favor in tin 3u < t > f tim nation nhere he IIJ Ken MtjouniiDtc until hu Ixjraiiu woiid in uthoni and liadtodinci the admluitratiou of tlu affairs of that great kingdom liv and ba e wetecthe drennis ful tilled hia brethren > cam into hK nod bowed themvle irestnce nl hwLl the0hl ollt Obi < UL unto him and even bl aged 1 father came to him t sucvnretl and Moeetl iu hid old age Now then was J Josephs lit ureessfuf Ye Notw ItlistaudluR tlto e reverts which overtook him in every misfortune lie sioretl no mcce ° Wis the ml I lull of JCMIS Christ succea 1 He line and was hall bv some TO King of the Jews Jh told UK I pvojilo thatHn wasjlie Son of GoJ that He was the One of whom the I ntlmets had lokn j tint He wak the Savior and tine L 4ht ol the world bit flint rjicted Him Tluj liuundeti Jin f tbtte they set I traps for Hh fret they heJ I I His outgoing nnd 1 i Homing I rhmy tried to euscare Him in Hi wards iinl nt last tIny did ructxnti in fin ing a traitor who would deliver de-liver Him Into their hands After judgment IiaJ been jassed 1 upon Him tluj crowned Him they smote Him with theIr hands stet Impost Him crowned Him with thorns and in mockery ilnpetl him with jmrjiJe in tImoMi days the Insignia of royalty Was the life of Jesus then n success fhe dragged Him before Pontius Pilate and insisted tint he should sanction theseutenceof denth which they bad pa < ed upon Him and lie 3We Dud cowardly enough to iccede to their demand They fastened Him upon the cross anJ to iRimiliate llm upn tirey placet on either site a common thitf Yet that was nil this Whv It was the fulfilment of Uio mission t which He had been npfolnt d A s Ills > dint well out frum lEts hodJ nliith wa m t I will azon it rose iri triumph instead 1 in-stead of eefeat For tint end Hi had come into the world that Hi I blood might atone for the las of many and tint He might become I the reurrctlion and the life Furthermore th it His spirit I l in < Its I dbemtodied state might go t tbe world of si iritf unlock time tloor of b1 prison houo I ltb start ort I preaching of the Gospel 1 to those I who laud been l Id in bunlage Was lint all this euccesr7 Was It not all triumph C ertainly it wi and F will it turn out to b with the uxpcriencoof the latterday Saints however sorrowful it may have been future in the pat or still may ti l in the I think timer is no blunder f far as concerns the main oljcct and ts tjljlisliment the work of God in the earth in relation to its fulfilling its ties In For InsUice when Joph Smith ml i rontlnetlin IIb ertjuil when his soul was bowed down with anguish I and his reoplt were being dm en en matte before the brtlty o a 1lfJ mob his load seeiued heavier than he ruM carry In the anguish of 1mb heart he crIed I to his Gnu from within the prison cell and he was toll I lint all the c perience through which he was P ing the sorrow of her the oGle tloD ill this was for hU good and and time Son of God remInded him that l lob endured il all So il is wiG time Saimrls l it were i not treasonable to say S we might I re tnt the words of the AIXX > le Paul who maintained that the Saints J et should judge tbe world and who opt red to believe tint declarations made by Daniel when Ire said tlistthe kingdom and tin dominion ami greatness of tho kingdom under the whale Leu A i ns should bs given t the Saints ot the Most High God to posess I Sol believubolh Iaul and Danlelin tills matter however unpopular it maybe may-be to state that kfU and if the Saints are t occupy this exulted position It la quite proper tint timey should irave aetual experience to qualify tem to dichargo with honor and dignity and Justice the duties wliuh weuld devolve I upon them thinc that w e nr pining a very valuablu training in civil government I govern-ment Ourwnterst us liowgov l < rnmentfrircs firm society tint I soetet exits first anl fen toveni meat 3tillwhilc this is their theory i is our practical experience Being refused protection in the Christian land of the United taf In States < tlt Unlte Stte our fathcrrcame t this land and in hinted It There b11 It Ter was no govern mentor of gvrr lt power government ex ertiswl over them at that time c it was vcr I very questionable if tonable I you rO member wtitther thN mrmbr 1tlr section of country would fall into the hinds oC the Untih goxernmint or whithe the I cIted Mates would succeed In tobl bDIUIlrcJm upon it fco I S that w e hum no territorial organize tionfuranumberof ton numbroC yearsaHer our fathers camu henj but we did have society and we began the creation crcton of n State We had a few of the simple regulations that writers on civil government tell us about and thIn aout regulations were very wise OnC For example I wa agreed ly this society that no mal diould have more land than he could cultivate He wasnotallowct t hold a monopoly of the land but was to tale tliat only w hlcli hecoul I properly cultivate leaving time rest for those who were t come after ner him ThenBgalu wterwa quite essential to success In tho tilling of these arid wastes I was decided hat no man shoul 1 b permitted t monoinlize I theti mountain streamf dn lInen I dole out the water at a high price t Ills neighbors but the water was to 0 free like the alrautl like the I To all thcso wise today rrinihUons Utah owes her rosperity > OH there wero no rrurU t uf orce those regulations there were no marshals to arrest those who attempted at-tempted to violate them We lived lere in peace and in harmon without with-out a govemment nnJ from this soeiety reguhtel by those simple rules eventually began the evolve ment of a guvernuieut We pen ioned for statehcoJand they gave us H Territory Perhaps tire Lord bought we n not sufficiently schooled that our experience seas suflliiently great tojustiry Him i nfe j In inspiring the litarls of time leaders ucb lulion to give us a sovereign tate Xo It was necessary that we should betnlnedthil we should eel the hand of oppression that we should know and understand how reat the loon of freedom and lb lrlJls by hiving to endure for n time persecution and injustice Were We-re being achoolid in those things vhtch are necessary for our cx erience 1 shall yet Ie donut 1 to our good and whn he time conies tlmt the fcaints pots po-ts time klugdoui under the whole heavens I think thiy will be in lined tortmember the days when threy were under the iron heel of op pretdon b meciful anti inlst that every man and ier woman shall njo the blessings of life lllvrty timid the pursuit uf happiness with oat le or hlnrnLTrm t 11WlI1 liit be Theso are the experiences that we arc guitlng now heincUme like a dream the hit tory of tit lost riHs before me ew this work when tlioo who were attached to it could lie held In a lug room lat more than four ecu feet by sixteen fett in size I tethc leaders branching cut into KUrrouuding neigh orhoud I reach ng time Gospel I see them coming over the seas und from lyond the mauiitains wlUi the glad message of time Gospel rtttorid I see the fuel fue-l hch attends tbD on every land I likewise see the sufferings and sorrows of the baiiits I site timem intKecuteU by yet blinded Missouri Mis-souri until tinny ore robbetl of all lulr possessions and driven out n time inclement season of the yen their pathway made brilliant ky the light of Unlr burning home 1 see their Pro bets and 1 len Unjustly Un-justly condemned to a felons cell J nay more at last shot dow laYII 1 cold blood while ruler the prottitlon of time sever eign State of Illinoi I see tliem rws tlC might Missouri ui > u time ke II the wluttr season launch out ntti the wilderrut antI fIlmIly into the d er Their weaned marchis cross the plains have dour up b Cur us hundreds of timtf and their arrival In this dtsulate land where 10 ganlens no orchard no lItas I aumt l > dun no flilds relieved tl e dreary wasti nay not so much 3 t a hunier0 or a ranchmans abin to break the niouoton of the eserL I H them Uglnnliig to tm the soil thill a perIod of cartity of hunger and tamlne in icir mid < t nud while famine Is laughing them from ithiu their enemies are moekln thtm from wll ont I see ell this all U en I see the pwpelit that atduds tie atwr of the eope Honest toll mtiis the mastery ovirlheelcuieiiU riuga tIL1 a Ilenilimerod for tiitni lets and theiroirpringaftir them I itn them building these cities th e towns and villagiy I tee jaln the clouds cf dirkuess and lersecutlou ftttlo iijon them uothtrs with their children going illlier nntl thither fluting from the uugodl persecutions Uiat have I KXII < erKtratrd against them I P all this in the past with its blood wih its ttJ and with IN sorrows iutisthatdreuni loJtn niway the future the Iry tliat shall yet attend at-tend this ninrtkU3 work of Cod liken Msion burr Uon the mind anmd I see time frontier of this beopie extendIng I see them en a lug their villages Into towns theIr towns into cilia where arc to b found the tempi tf our God herein the work fur the living and for tire dlad isUing p < rf < > rmwl 1 HO their Elders traxellng nbroid inong the nations faithful witnesses Cor Gets ruotwitlnatcnndlmg time maImed anti pnjudicu that exist among them I sec more than Uiat With in nittioiiBfroni the writings of the ncitut Projhits I under tanJ that time north is wt to give up the mounUlns rice shall melt awn and the tritxa that have been hidden from the I hlldren of mel hal coma like don to the wInJows in nine midst of T tIme Stints to receive their hesa I II J IIS beg l the hands of the children of Enliralm I mon them wending tluir wa across the ocean t the promised I ind in Palestine where doubtless takes of Zion will b organized to which they rumay come I see till and then side hy side with I is time In i crease of crime and wickedness ricked men are waxing worse and worse deceiving nnd being deceived de-ceived I see societies crumbling and Slates falling to licces under the reln anarchy injustice fflm bee and bwxMitd 1 see all this until those who wIll not take up the sword rgalnstUielr ntlghbois must eetJs flee to Zion for fd Then when nations shall b weakened and their pride humbled Ihruugh wars all calamities which shall overtake them and they be lold limo intions of Zion increasing 1 sec their amossudors coming t th it Inspired servants of G asUlng the fn1 by which they hold to ether their toddy how they gov men an 1 control mi u and have > eace aud hippincs while distress and War are abroad In the cnrth Iseo them coming lendIng t those whom they hav despised and held In derision I eec the despised ones In glory nspltmlcnt and inrt at let of the prophecies uttereJ by icanclcnt servants of God fulfilled nough There let the vision rest it l XowLatterday Bimts this I not a figment it is not the Ideal coinage failoanld brain but i i limo won God repeated over and over again In revelations that He ha committed to His people and Just N sunia the Throne of the great Jeho vain slnll remain Just so sure will He fulfil His purpose Thoo who fight against Him with the hope of overcoming over-coming usand w ith the hopeof pre entlug the accomplishment of the etrecsof od It will turn out as It did in the experience cf Joepimtire very thine I that Uiey in tijurited to bring about the des ruction of the work of God will be the means through which and by which His purposes will bcaccom I hiied You nml not fear for Get has decreed Hand there h I DO power on cactI thattani revent Itifulfilnient You cied notevinbringarailltigac cusatlonagaln < t those who assail this work I have pitied those men I f ity them still for their lack of tinder ttanJIn1 when they think that by gaining n city cleetion they have stormed tho bulwarks uo Zlon an I hold them In their poaeslon It w il be antis them as with the man who was an hungered He dreamed that he ate but he awoke and found himself hungry still or the thirsty mn who dreamed that ho drankbu awoke and was thirsty till Dtap t lt nJiei h grt tn rolntment shall be their portion In this respect 1 pray God my brethren and sis ters that tine contemplation of these things will cheer and comfort your hearts tend to Increase your faith and enable llio grasp to some small I decree the wondrous work which the Lord has set His hand to carry out May God ideas you to that end is my prayer in tbe name ofJtEUj Amen The choir sang a selected hymn ComeSBlrltComf Benediction was pronounced by EldrrJI P KIclialds |