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Show SUNDAY SERVICES. Religious services were held at the Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, Sun-Jay, Sun-Jay, 3Iay -Ith, 1SD3, commencing at 2 p. m., Counelor Joseph E. Taylor presiding. The choir and congregation sang the hymn commencing: ! rrom all teat dwell below ibe ,iie It the Creator! pralae arue. Prayer by Bishop Oron F. Whitney. Whit-ney. The choir sang: 1 c children or our Got, Te Salau or latter dart. . The Priesthood of the Twentieth Ward officiated in the administration administra-tion of the SacramenL ELDEK m J I. l'lKRCK took as hi text the first two lines of the sacramental byiun,"Vecbildren of ourGod," tr., anil gave an ad dress of upwards of an hour's duration this being bis first appearancu as a speaker In the Tabernacle. He referred, re-ferred, in the outset, to the practice of calling upon the chosen speakers unexpectedly. HenceTthcy bad no means of preparing a discourse beforehand, be-forehand, and what they uttered I was presumed to be dktatedbythe I Spirit of God. Proceeding to I show why It wjs neces-ary for a ' Chu rch disti nctl vely named after the Redeemer himself the Cbttr b of iJetus Christ of latter-day Saints to be c-tablished in these litter days, be poluted out that the Christian world had fallen Into errpr and gone astray. They had ignored many of the forms and formalities of the ancient church and therefor substituted doctrines whlih were not in keeping Willi God's holy won! the Bible. They had dispensed with many of the offices of the an clont f !hurch. discarded manv of the ordinance1, among them revelation, reve-lation, which was the life of the Church, and that upon which depended de-pended its growth. Gifts end blessings bless-ings characteristic of the former-day Stints, had also been done away with as being no locker needed, thereby breaking the everlasting covenant. In their steal they bad instituted ceremonies and doctrines foreign to the teachings of the for mer day Saints. The speaker adverted to the doctrine doc-trine of damnation eternal punishment punish-ment by fire and brimstone erroneously erro-neously taught by sectarian deneml nations, and which in the past, he said, had perhas done more towards driving people to infid.-lity than any other doctrine preached by the religious orid. Elder Pierce next argued against the teachingof the doctrine of salvation at the clevent hour,h and cited the case of a murderer, whose so-called rent-ance rent-ance at the last moment was generally gener-ally accepted by the world as a guarantee of his eternal salvation. Xo matter what his past life might have been, yet while not considered fit to live among respectable mortals in this life, be was deemed fit, after confessing bis sins in the prison cell or upon the scalTidd, to dwell with celestial beings in heaven. This doctrine of repentance at the eleventh hour had promoted Infidelity Infidel-ity to an alarming cxteut. The Bible was supplemented by the Book of Jformon, which, while contradicting no Bible doctrine, formed strong collateral proof of the Bible, and was more easily comprehended compre-hended by the people. The Latter-day Saints, though few in numbers, took a more live interest in looking up the genealogy of their progenitors than any other religious denomination, in order that they might officiate for the dead in their Temples. The speaker touched upon the great work which was being carried on by the EMers in the mission field throughout the -wide world, and the persecutions persecu-tions which they vrere always ready and willing to bear for the Gospel's sake. He prayed that the Latter-day Latter-day Saints would continue charitable charit-able toward all mankind, and that their lives would always be devoted to the winning of souls to Christ. Signor Kerrario sang a solo, after .which the choir Tendered the anthem, an-them, "O beJoyfuL" Apostle Abraham H. Cannon pronounced the benediction. |