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Show wsaaBBinBwawaaisnaBaiawaansaBaBiwaii ileilgious -cervices. were 'held in IheTabenaaJftSajt 4Ue City, Sun-day4 Sun-day4 Nov. 8tb--lS80, commencing at 5 p. r,JPrgSieut ibscph"E. Taylorrrfidlpg.P. ,,,,, The choU aafejipi tf llow an liTJrraattJm QfAtfyi IIowinnIlhd'ejaMli af r- Frayer waA-dffired byUUder ElfaJ Morris. tra& Srt rt st Thechoirsang;. He died) the(TeatBeaeemeriUellii And urxel'e dangalerrwrpt atonsElt Tho Priesthoobrfr the'Toorth WardofficIatedliaeralnLlnllon of the Bacramcnta n i 'x. Hisjtot ortso, vjvi nrwrrr5 was called upon to aldrest tho congregation. con-gregation. It Uacommotr custom among tho 8alnis,he saVd Co call upon Eiders to spealt ta the Spirit designates, without oont-Jjtliig with them. But a feelfug or weakness and dependency upon a ,uperlor power Is nevertheless usually.com-Lined usually.com-Lined with this. And ,1 ,Vnow full well that no man of hunaeU can edify a congregation of Latter-day Saints simply by trustingln Uilni-self. Uilni-self. , We have come together here from different places andjwJtU various vari-ous feeling", though preaumably with a common motive to be red with the bread of lif-rto hear instructions, reproofivwarnluirs or admonitions, such as the. Splrit knows to be necefgary. Hence the Importance for the speaker to be as a musical Instrumentin tliu hand of the Spirit, to play upon-Rs'llrtlrable. .It iloes.not, however, depend, entirely entire-ly on the speaker, no toorellian It does upon a nana of .glass to give light or on a musical Instrument to furnish music. He rauid, tephl. must be la tune, as aijiiutrumeiit ciutbe. to give rauslce yet It doc not depend on htm alone. There It a great jiower within a congregation to draw forth what is most needed. They must, therefore, come ,With a siJ-lt en rapport with.,yiu. Holy Spirit. Then we canVaijsyllls instructions. in-structions. - 1 1 nn God has, in every igeglveunto man his freo agenotttlUe has placed him here; ou,eai'rtu, on probation to act, or .htinelf aud to take tlie cocftequcuces.of lib acts. He may be good or evil; he may make a wise u&eorhls time, his talents and opportunities, or he may tquander them, He la4 left at liberty to act for hlmse7fai3d1o receive re-ceive blessings wbn 'sought for, desired and deservej., When Jtsus was among men He, prrached' the Gospel and worked VarrQui kfuds of miracles to the great astonlebruent of His generation, Vetltf tt certain place he could not perform maoy mlracltsonaccounf of th'u (lnbellef of the neoole. WhV rouhi b not do It? For tills rcaaoh? -already stated, that God -will not Oinpel men to exercise faltb. lie will read them and exhort tlfem, but '.He never compels anybody to be righteous. right-eous. The frro agency of man h an eternal princlple.aoij jVearerwj.Vl11 as God's children to seek tin-eftly after the salvation He will glvoJus. There ij as It were, great gulf yawning between- Him and us. His love will partly panhlgulpb, but our good works must span the other part of It. Tbw doctrine is not very popular among the Christian world. The Idea has obtained, that teller alone Is sufficient; that even a criminal can on the scaffold, Ifi.ho has the namcof Jrsuson blslips.'go straight to Jesus. Wodojiot belli-Vx such doctrines. We hold that jjohe. will be punished for unotbediuau'aisins, nor rewarded for anotber'd virtues, but that every one must be Judged according io his own.deeda iuthis there is nothing anreseonablc We are often accused of being narrow and exclusive in our views concerning human salvation. But only those thiuk so, Who have failed to study oar doctrlms and have accepteJ falsehood for truth. I can say without prejudice preju-dice that I have never heard of mire magnanimous and comnrehcnslve doctrines than those contained in what Is called ''Mormouiaai," but on account of misrepresentation men have believed thercontrary. We believe that God Is the Father of the race, and that literally. He is the Fatherof the tplrit, the lutelU-eenfc. lutelU-eenfc. UilukiDC part uf mau, w llbout which our body would be a cold and lifeless lump ot clay. This was made In the Image of God and placed here that it might develop and become like God. And tills we hold to be true, not only concerning ourselves, but of all men, wherever the .may exist beneath the canopy pf, heaven We believe that Hls heart Is great enough and kind vnougu (o beat with love to all; His chLMreii.. If some are black and tqnituutAi hlle, or red, or yellow; If oni'arcTlch tnd others poor, and" soon ,v ejiold that there are good rrasous for these Jlfferences, but God cutalnly 1? ves them all, and wJlUULilit'-Oip t their desires, and give them all the happiness tbey can appreciate. We believe that God ant,.HU Son to die for men, but not to put a premium upon their idleness, but to open the way to all .men that they may come and partako of the. waters of life, freely. OI coiraeirtliey do not come, but, like thow bitten by the serpent In the. wlldernessv refuse re-fuse to look to Him and be raved, they cannot blame anyone but themselves for their couUemriation. Those, however, who have never heard the GospcL enrxton that account be cast away; for they cannot can-not lw Judged according; ti1 a law they have never heard. Vet this, Is tho belief of mauy'OhrMIanf-yea, mauy'OhrMIanf-yea, they even hold .fbatllttle chli dren are to be sent to hell because they have never heard the name of a Sivlor, although tWSidea Is gradually dying out 2 o w. all men will be judged accdrdlPg to the deeds done In tile holy: riioe who have recelveu-i- (higher law will ben Judsed, aw cording to the law, a"ndj if they have been falthfuPlri'yTerj tblog, they will obtain rswiKHalcordlng-ly. rswiKHalcordlng-ly. There are ralfiyl'rrlars and tribulations awaiting those who llvo according to this .higher aw, but these are necessary In order to educate edu-cate ns to tho prlvilegeor mingling with. Gods hereafter. Cbratt taught this princlp'o when Tie said: "if I bad not come, you wuuni have had ;rslad' sBubJc pryansLJUiBV ,were crn8equqnUy under oondMnl nation when nJecling'Hlm. "God l?Jut,lf man is not, ana He rewards everbody according to hls-deedsw John.saw the msrtyrs and tirose whq had not worshiped the beast, that they lived and reigned witfv t,'hrlst. He aLo saw thosonvlio' we n 1th-out 1th-out guile before GoU'fMJoWing the Lamb "wherever Htr-goeth," yea, following Him here,n,lfS tribulation tribu-lation or evenVJ"Irt rriartrdom and when these'' tragiaccncs are past, following- hlnV lh' glory, becoming klDgSnU-riltets? This Is the grand conoeplHrti'JoPJosepb, the "Mormon" PitopSefVt That the destiny of men Is to become Gods, and that each onsiwill bnrrewnnli'd according to hlsrtfcerlsrtiJto too, Is the "narrow"' idea ofJosepb Smith, the 'Mcirmonu PropheL. Paul taught th,fsamo jloctriue, but men have forgnttra it. It was always al-ways a doctring'cf the Gospel, and it will be so forever. , For themselves the SafnU claim simply this: that God has Committed to them the everlasting Gospel to be preached to all riallorf. Their Elders go out accordingly, jearliiR privations and in&t'Its and are sometimes some-times murdered,'land ajrIhl3 not for salaries, but becaure .thry lovu their fellowmeiitanJ Go4 J the Father of msnilad.l Thpoo because, be-cause, they dslwrt liu restored the jftpthpoibtIcr to empowei;thQfHtafi JmmU paame for the iiaHKflSiix uTtsaakind. They believe Htaf no 'Ma, ,bu do so except betngXalleil ars Varon, a holy calling- with wltfaat, hoVan, not even oni;w3tliJricjlJ'islttirlty, has a.rigbt togMIMftrcWOod valone cancemailisjSiWW teMbjtlstrr cWra tfcntJ"Bve.fjag a-rteeivo a-rteeivo "Jin iiHrjint.rftJal 'WtTfoq pHMHaamawnvsaavasniama3aw4A--v-a Holy Gboat. And we also claim tliat men will be judged acoordlng tnthUiawand condemned thereby, If tliey reject It, caving once received re-ceived ItT We do cot expect any better treatment rrom men than that which was accorded to former Saints, and Wc will therefore net allow any bitter reelings to possess oar hearts, but we wish to return good for evil, do good" to all men and leave the lssttfs with God. We wish no war. The ollre branch is the emblem of those that preac2t the Gospel of peace. May ix, we have not always been able to do this to perfection. But any frfUdre in this respect mutt not be put down to "Mormonhro' but to the weakness of thi human heart. We have seen and experienced experi-enced much iniuathe in the pact and this Is not always easily forgotten. forgot-ten. Vet it must be forgotten and forgiven, and it shall so be. And It will in the futrtro be evident to all good men, as It It Is noT to God, that the Saints have been heroic lh bearing wrongs In a way without a parallel In the history of the world. We do not, however, care much about what men say; our chler concern con-cern is, what does tJod say? We can afford to wait dhd leave theout-como theout-como with Him who "doetn all things well." The choir sang the anthem: Let the monnuuna anont forjor, and the congregation Joined In the Doxology. Benediction by President Charles W. renrose. |