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Show SUNDAY BEIlVlim. Ail lalrrcitln; Ulwoartt) on tlie llliln-II; llliln-II; iif ( lirlil. lltllgloua teririita were liU at lli TaUrnacle, Halt I'alca City, Hutnlay, J)araUr Old, 1801, commencing at 2 ji. in., I'nalJsnl Anjus M. Cannon presiding;. The choir sang (ho hymn commencing! commenc-ing! tord, Thou wll I besr ms acu I Iirsr, 1 tin fort er lliiae. l'rayer waa oflVruU by lilJer Clias. V, Hymom. TIib choir nd cou;reir.atloii M"i Now let M rslole In tht day or sals alloo, o loarsr aa strsngsis on earltt nosa we Tim I'rlistliooJ of the Truth WarJ ot!lclatl In tliealiulnlstratluii of lh Hacratneiit. M.1JKII IIAVIII M'ICI SHIK then aililressol llm coll(r,rr;atloll. lie i-strtmrJ II rt prlvllrue lo wcupj llie stand (or eomo tlma ilurlujc thwe liTtkta Hedl'l not know how Ionic lie might U led to spank, but lis relied on the rotulso kItcd by tho Baylor, that Ilia Holy Hplrlt would Hire Ills illsclplra what to ia In tint aaiiw hour It wm milled, nJ he would not 1 resume, to address this Intelligent au-illeuce. au-illeuce. without the nld of that tlltlne Hrlrlt. Un itreatalnuf tliai;ls, In the opinion of the linker, the heed lisinita which prcialle In regard to Ihe thlnna of (lod. Ito would lint say thlt of tho Latter day Halms, nltliougti they are by no means i-erfect, lut In rriturd to the worlJ It ran I raid truthfully, for the fait la that the greatest pari nf mankind la wiRerly sitklwrllietilflitoMlni world, which are soliciting and paaa away aosuoli. Could Ihe speaker Kln the ear of all men, bo would ray, When, lalhiro even one. Ililnic ourartli thai ahould ! the anme Intercltlo ua aa the duty wooKuto our Creator? Hhoull thla not alwaya li lornnott lu Mir inlnila and Ihuuijuls? llaa Clod ri-venlcd ri-venlcd UN will to un? llavn wodutlra u irform? solllee In a future Hfr, aniilrleuce continued throughout through-out iltrnltjt llaa our conduit here Iwarlnt upon Ihat i-nlatencr? If so, la It not then a nn.-l noltimn duty lo sitk to live ao that we can Inauruu happy vondltlun In that future eilalenci? Itlalniponalblo lo male a apliltual Impression on a mind not pri tared to rirelvn It. If a man'a wholn lulud la alwaya occupied with the (hlDKa of llio world, It has i,o room for the riplrit of CI.d. ilencr, In Hi Ml)' nature of things, Ihe luailma I lid down by uur havlor inii-l tw ai'cr)tl and carried rut pr ictlcally aa the foundation for all spiritual eiltiialloii. Did He tell Ills followers to LelleuT tea. To I iliarltaMi? Tuliunijcr and thlrat after rlKhlH.uliinT Via. Tlicssi Iirlliol. i Ira were uootl. not uuly for Ilia llrat llscliilit, but tin y are lice nary at nil llnirp, In mdrr that the U,spel may tliid place In thu lienrta. Our HaTlor lILi-iisttm kingdom nf Ood lo a man who went out sowing the. seed. And 111 so doing. SMill" nf It fell ou atony groutm and could, contniutntly, not f row and fructlly. And Just aa the ground lnia to l prcj-and to receive, the aetil.solhn heart ol man luuit be I rt laied lo nielvu the (1 !! of Jriui ijhrlat. With Ihn IrKard to tbo ilovtltue of IhedlTlnltyof Christ, the altr rr. uaikid that he Imd never met any lntelllKnlunllletr ho denied Ihe ailatenre of C'brlal onro Uih thu ialth None acquainted with the hla tury of (mat Ra could deny that. Hot many refuinotorieuy llladlvlnlty.tu endeavorlmr, forafewmomontv, tovln Ikate the divine tnlMloiiorturtJulor, the f aler would not lay claim lu any orlKlunlltynf Ihe argument be would ) ruducc, but merely itlre auih reaaona aa had Urn advanced by jrolound thlnbrraontboaiiljeut. 3Ir LeallewaaouceriiUited ly the Dukeof Kent to furnhh blm with nr-Itunienta nr-Itunienta nualnaf uttalu delate. The anion taken wee that the Cutlatlnu rellitlonronaWtaof facta au J doclrlnea h, related toeach other that If the facta i an be proven tote true, thodoclrlnia inuat aUt lie aicefteil aa true, Now, the facta may be ealahll.hed aa audi If they are found loiiuettcd with irrtaln maika which can never 1 cuuutitcd villi only alleRed facia. Thcae inarka arc, accurdlnit to Mr. Lealle, fouri Klral, thelactamuatheaucli aa can le Mcrrtalned throunh the eitirual m ne; aacondly, they muit be con. flrineuby eje or iar.ilmca; thirdly, immorlila or motiunu.nti or aitlona tuuat have Uen Inalltutid In commem oiatlou of them; and, fourthly, tin ae inuat h ivn bet n eauiblldicd at thiitlme the facta incurred. All theae marka uutt In the Chrlrtlau rcllitlon and amount lo a dt monalMtt'in of Ua t ruth. If Mori a, for luatance, had tbo low er to ad larael lhroun.li the wattr if Ihe llrd Sea, bldillllK the wavea to lie a wall oil either aide of them While ttiey javMiluver on dry ground, und onnmaudlnK Ihe drip lo etiKUlftha I nr uliife 1'aTyi liana; If he could feed tht chlUrru wlih manna lu the wilder-iiraa, wilder-iiraa, no one could then dl ule that he waa ondowtd with iiowrr from (lod, Now thla la what Moiia clahna to have lone. Hew could ho make audi a claim, If II wero not true? Hiipporea man came and made the iw rllou that lin had led evt-ry man, womau and child hi tlila coutiriitatlou ncroaa the river Jordan In aaluilletly mlraouloua manner; who would ballevohlin? la It jiot clear that before Moaea could make lliHthlldieuof laraallellevewhut he claimed lo havo done, bo mutt llrat actually have done llf Theiitjrclloiihaa liceti made, that the atory waa never written by Mcara, but waaluvented afltrthat Reiteration hadpaiid away auionirwlioin thu law Klverlhed and whu are aupioiul to have bt eu i yewltneaM a tu the miracle. Hut In the eleventh chater of Deuteronomy, wo riad that Moeie lilinaulf lu biaaddnaito the ople ai fialed lo them at wllneitii to the nlraclca he t latum! to ha e h rfonned, and a rLCord of It waa to be kept aa a ttatlmony hi all voiulni; Kaneratlont. Acaln, there lea diaorlptlon of Ihe Inatlliitlou nf tho feaat of l'aaativer, na a memoilal of that great day fchen the peojieof larael were delivered from the atrvltude lii l.SJpt. And the very fuel that thla feaat wt once Incorfioratfrl In the dewlah rlUa and liaa bten kc t ever elnce, lea proof that the event It Lomiiiemoralea took place, Kortuppoai aomtbody ahould havo in ileavoreil to lncnt the ntrrallve of the ilellvorame from llyid und the luailnir tbrou(li llio aeu In later aiiia, hour wuld Ibey have Induced the eople to have a yearly featlval In commemoration thercd? Or, Inn for to auother lelljloua tlloof IbuJowa, what woull you think of a man who priluudvd tu bare fouud a book projwilue that everybody ahould cut OH n finder In memoryofn certain event n llted In that book, at the tame lime naatrllug thai II had I" nncua. loni bicenimemortle that event from tho llmeol I la first occurrrnce, by thua culling a flner. The fact that you had never beard of that peculiar on-totn on-totn tfore would at onie convince everybodr that he touiht to perpetrate n fraud unn jou. It would Ve lm-poealble lm-poealble In preaeot audi a h-mk 10 the IK-ople of tho Unllid Hlatea m an authentic record and mm by which everybody wmihi finally lo Judgod. Hut It nould haveUeu Jutfta lninal ble to present the five book of Moaea to the Jewlah laple, had hot Ihe fade tht ri In let forth rtally lieeli mlabliahetl aa facta. Can we not leethewladom nf do I In Inatllutlnit tucli memoilala? Tiny tervo aa llnka la tween tbo tiutha revealed In ancient aceaand our timer. In theae ancient revelation wo find frniucnt reference to doctrine re-vinlnl re-vinlnl In later ai!.a. In (lod'a tearh, Initihi Adam there la reference madu to the atoiieiiu nt of t'hrlrt.not without ambiguity, arh,) el plain enouuh tolvwtlluHJirslond when tho event, refrrreil to had trat i Ired. The )irom-la )irom-la vlvculoour flrtt parent that the 'acd of Ihe woman" thoul I brulaethe bend nf the aer(ent It one nf the-c. Thla la evidently an allegory roferrlne lo the redemi lion or atonement brought by Chrlat. Tlioezpriaalonlho "aeed of Ihe woman" la I lain when thepartntairenr Chrlat la onaldired. AlidlhatIleaholld"brulae the In a I of Uiehrrtit"rtfl2urea clearly Hla aufrarlnga, death, reaiirrectlou and final victory. I-ooklnc. faither down In the hlalory of man, uo Und the promlanof (lod to Abraham, after be had ahown hla wll. liiKiioa InlaydownovenliU only aon on luu altar, that In him aud Ida are I ull Kenenitlona ahould be blraaed. Thla promhe la realllrmed tu laaao and then axaln to Jacub,and It la dnled out Ibat 11 ahould come throuuli Judali and the royal family of David. To aay nothing of the remarkable predlctluua, later ntven by Iaalah, we may refer to the propheilea of Daniel, who actually title llio pnclie rlod of lime tun oara after tho olaptoof which Mtadah ahould come, the dally eairltlcebeabolllhcd and llio work of atom mentaccomi llahed. And llil kuowlcdRo waa by no menu coollucd to the Jewa alone According Ac-cording to Matthew, atthallmonf tlie birth of Clirlil, viae men camn to Jcruaalem from the Kail, nnilaldy from ChalduM, having inti radon their long Journey In tohtcquemnuf tome aatroDomlcAl knowletlguof uhlcb they were In loaM-Mlon, They were Itoklug fortlio new. born klog, and had evident!) evi-dent!) tbo IJca that Ho waa more than a human king, for they wort.hlid Him when they found lllni, n mark of rea4ct which la not ahown to a mere human leliM, Huetnulut alto, tbo llonian blitorlan, ttlla ut that there Mat a tiadltlon at that lime, elating that one lliould bo lorn who uatdrttluedtnrulelho whole world, ImluJImr. ,lho ltomn imnlrc. Thla tradlllon had made audi au )niprcrlou on Ihe Henate, that a decree had bten bund lu kill the male children born lu that )tar,n decree which waa never rarrledout. bowovrr, owing In the fact that tovrral women, thu whra of the rJeliatora, hoed that they might poaal-bly poaal-bly bo the mother of that ruh r. Matthew lella ua that Iltrod and llie wliuleofjMuialeni with him, tcamo czatl crated at the newa brought hy the w lu man, mid hail llm w rlltnga of the I'rot beta rearched to find out wbtre Mraalah w aa to be born. Win n he had dlact vered that the birthplace waa Bethlehem, ho ordtred all the male t blldien i f a certain age dealroyed. Wo know how lie waa deluated In hla lie-algn, lie-algn, Would Matthew have ventured audi a ttatemtnl If thtre had Utn no truth lu It? The elltttncn of In pllatnle proof plenum ple-num live thai that llio waa I nit I lu led hyClnltt. Had It Um lulroducoil a huudied )tara after Hla time, every-oi every-oi o would have knowu It, from the l ginning, tobuan Innovation. HucU nuiuorlala amount theieforo to a demonatrntlou of the truth of Christianity. 0! course, we cauthut our eyca and preteud that wo do not aeelt. Hut lu those wliusiek for III-llgldennient III-llgldennient with a humble, slnrero aplrlt, they give ample proof aud talli-fai talli-fai lory evidence. Now, Just aa surely aa Jesuaonco wn ou.earlh and lived litre, sutlcred, died an I again rose In glory, u.l at surely bna Huapi-tared lu thlt ago, to uahur lu the dlsvnsttlou of the tulntsi of time and announced Ills second coin-lug, coin-lug, when Ho shall rtlgu over tho nation of the tartli at He relgnt lu heaven. There la riaton In tlmo Ihlugt. Win wo heard from the 1'ar Wist, aaltlhru waacalled, a lasaaaut lioy had held cjmmuuloii with Uod, thla wat n marvclout announcement. It waa nlmost liiiompreheualtdo thai (ho I'ather and thu Hon should havo apealtd 111 Ihe liuuutr related by the ) oiithful at-er. Hut wlikt about theatatementa of llie Hlbleof (lod'a cohvcreitlontwlth Mosis? lllsrrveln-tloa lllsrrveln-tloa UHamuelf Hlu1edlon of Davl I Jn l reference to all hla brethren? What ofjraua whu chose from among tho poor and the dea laed toboHlaApoa-ilea toboHlaApoa-ilea and held It out aa a roof of the divinity di-vinity oftbedospel Heprcllhed, that It waa particularly cllertd to tho -uot? When these fact are cousldtred, It no longer become tmproliable that Ho should revial Himself lu Ihlt age to thu bumble among nun. All Ihn cliurdita had proclaimed thalr disbelief disbe-lief In ruveltllon, mid there waa not a man found among them all who could dalm dlvlue authority, The predlc-llonaof predlc-llonaof Ihennclrntprophela bad been rrinaikably fullllleil. The Church had been otakeuaway," waa (ovrcome." an 1 had "fled to the wllderntaa." Hut, according lo the tame prcdlctlona, It should again Lie tstahlliheil. How? A It was eitabllalud tho llrat lime lu humility and lowllneta. The 1'rophet Jostpli teatlflet to the t. rat revelation Im received, aud then lio states Ibat tho nppetrance of the I'ri'phtt Moroni lame lu direct fulfil-mint fulfil-mint of the previous lovelatlons. These ittleuonU cbaracterito the young Bier either aa a true pioidiet or tho an linpcttor. Home any he only Imnglnel he saw theae iiersouagt. Hut bo testlflea alao that lie went lo Cumurah accoidlui; to the dirt ctlont of Moroni on I found Ihe plttea which betiok from the hiding pltce ami translated hy the powercf Clod. 'Ihla rnuM not have bten Imagination. Thla aUtemeut muat bo cither true or fal.e. Hut now, Joseph la not the nnly u lines about thtso things, Theio are thelhrrewltnesaeiwho solemnly Us. thy that Ihey saw the l.UUa ami handltd thriu and turne J llietn over, leaf alter leaf, aa many haa bad been traralated, aud they heard lliu volcu from hsaven. And there art the tight wllneasMa who bear a similar ttttlmoti), Aud lljlit In our lay wo have men ltng who were peraonnlly actualutid with thtso men atid have communicated thesu facts hi ui, meu whu were willing, II ruiulred. In Eire Ihtlr live ha a stal In Iho truth ol their testimony. Can stronger' evidence to produced for an) thing thiu this which la ottered In support sup-port of the claim of Joseph the Prophet? Von liellevo that a-fciandcr lived and )ou ttke tho letilmony of history for It. This evidence la strougrr Ihftiitny tbitcaii l-n brjugbt lu aup )iorl of the events of history. There It also mother prool within the n aih of ever) Mdy. If you will comply with tho request of theClol, humble yourrt If and be willing lo re. celve Ihe truth, you will obtain a testimony tes-timony vilthlnjoursclf to Ihe truth nf Ihls woik. The promise la otien lo every one of us. The bumble and fallhlul shall surely have II. The Halut should tie Ihaukml that they can still Ilvo togelbtr lu ptarti and plenty, notwithstanding Ibat Ihe lltslgl. of tho w'cfctal have alwa) btrejtideatioythe woikof Ood. We have the asaluauce that (1 nl Is with ua and willing lo bear with us, If we only sick to do our duties. Nu una should doubt Hint wo ell through the eirr else of a divine lamer, unit sa they can asi'gu some bstter causn for our tilslelitenanpeole. Home think It Istheshrewdiiissofour lending men thalkcepus together, Ixit those men among us havedahored banlcst for the ettabllshmtntof thltuoik. U halthry are Ibey havoollalncd tbroush a vast amount of trial and turicrlngi. They htvu riemplineil III their llMt tho any. Ing of Jesus, that he who will bo great among )ou, shall le tbo servant of alt, and those who have bten most Intimately r.sioclatitl with them on testify that they aro men of (lod, wboin iowtr la cocitenalve with tin Ir fallh aud their knowledge of the mind and will of Ood. Those whu have not sought thewelfaroof the people base itropetI out and ttcn forgotten, while those who have remained re-mained faithful have bten able tosland aud will do so, until thty obtain the place prtpnrtl for them lu tternal glory and ixalhttlon. lltferrlugtothe iierarcutlont which tho Halut havo Uen suljtclrd lo, Iho ptaker woull say that not all were fromrnallto. A great deal of Ihvra came through the Ignortucn of the tojvtr-sarles. tojvtr-sarles. Take for liiftahcuthuchargtiof disloyally which haa U-en luide again and again, In spltu of all proofs lo the contrary. It la a matter of bis-tor), bis-tor), that when this tup1o was ex palilatedrom Ihe UnlttdHlates; when they In vain had apir!ed tuivery governor I u the Union to grant th m a placo nf refuge aa cltlzna of tbo Uulled HUtea and not one nf thosu Siivornors could grant thu lefjuest.thun to demand came frnm tho govern-luentforuato govern-luentforuato give Up file hlllldltd men toguaud helptocontuer Meilro. At that lime, Inlttad of giving the an-awer an-awer that nilglll have been ez pot ted undtrthe ctrtumstances, our liadtr lnslintlyre)led, "Vou shall have Iho men." Thtruwa a true American htarl. Cuuacttuently tho men were marshaled and ontcrtd upon that long and weary Journey. Thcae ".'alrlotlo Hon of America" ought tjkuow Ihls, The first act of Ihe eopleun theatrical theat-rical In this region was tu hoist the lliiitttl rMatr Hag on llnstgu link and take ssm.slfon Of the coun. try.noi In the nameof lirlghatiiVoung, but lu the uarun of (he United rjfitte. Are thtae the acta of traitors? Jisuasald, thosu are blessed who aro sakeu all niauner of evil against, falstly, for Hla sake. He hat promised tolnlpdt lu nil trials, If wo nuly remain re-main humble and faithful, (lod will terlaluly exalllhlt eople. Knowing lh!,wemiy chrrlah ktlnl fttllnglevsu towards those that liato us, and wo shoul I ray, "Kather. forgive them, for tbey know not what Ihey do." This bat alwaya bet n the policy nf our lead-t lead-t ra,aud If we follow lt,lt will redound to our honor an J rt suit In our ilualenl-tatlou. ilualenl-tatlou. Tho choir sang tho anthem, Uofol t, rt portals evsrtattlof Ilenedlctlou waa i lobouuced by DlshopH.il. Clawsou. |