| Show A L AA A DAA A AAA J A AA A Li h CA A nn A A AA A nU 2 r 1 I TIt M t t tU zt t t i t o M i m M t t 4 1 t 1 t ii 3 tr I r If 11 NOTABLE EVENTS OF THE CENTURY e I 1 1 fY C 0 1 1 1 i t 41 i r ti 9 l t T t 1 m om it tt rn l ml 1 1 t to t it i l n 1 t l t 1 i I 11 UI I t tV J V V V V i r T V V V V V V V V V V I V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V v vI I I H H H HI H Ht HA t T A POSTLE YOUNG being out of tho t A i State Stale the News has not been able to obtain a from him an e of its con j 1 the tha century now and that thal which IR about to open but we know that If he were here hereIt i It h would endorse endore the of hla hIli or of the Apo and 1111 hear bear a st testimony to 1 concerning the greatest live event lit of at the Nine Nine Century that la II th the restoration of the thel l the In at the dispensation of 1 the of times lime under the Prophet Prophett i t Joseph Smith TWe testimony he hu has borne for many years er and In many nations and we are assured he be will continue to do doI i I a I u long lon u lire life remain Ile Is now In Mexico but wherever ills duty calls callI callIf f hi his oloe I a ever heard In to testimony of the truth of lice Latler day work f o and nd In And instruction to the Saints Sainte lice name le Is Id h C red fled with the great Ireat work of at the last Jail days end and his hia father I i upon the foundation laid by the mart martyred prophet of the Nineteenth Century t ii H li lI lII I IH H H t y i leading purpose of GOtlin God In all alE ages h lies b been cen cento j i T to exalt and redeem mankind Through all the tho i 5 generations from the beginning as al recorded ed In i I II I 1 the Old Testament there was a thought of the coming of a ot of the human ra race to effect I on to expiate and to pro F h y vide mean for man mana return to the Immortal Mate I f I Ith the l Father The tory story of the Old Testament I II i which IM IH but the prefatory chapter of the New ew Tes revels reveals the WRY way In which God provided for forr I x ay the tho fulfillment nt of the promise l t oame to earth carth just IIA as the tho p the 1 1 law the priest and the prophet had foretold lie He took away awa the sin of x I den also the Gospel or of salvation by b which men through r f ence might bo r to God lie He became tho author of eternal 1 unto Ill all that obey olley Him t all that had been Bald of JIll file coming 11 lie wu yet ret ref re i i T feted and wIcked wickedly I put to death Jut But lIe arose aroH from the grave ascended to tot t the rather became the flat fruits or of the a and d will again return turn j jt t to earth The evidences ot of the promise of ill coming the meridian of oft t time are no Ulan than the prophetic utterances of the second cond coming lIIs Ilia f it advent to II declared by the ancient prophets by and by modern 01 J revelatIOn r v 1 Rry age or of the since Ine Ills HI crucIfixIon ha has l lading t events indicating that the of JIl lile second to earth I Is U as J t remembered b by God u w was the ot of JIll Isle first Rte JIll early followers WON were j put to death or fell Into but the tho promise remain and the dRY day of k 1 restitution will surely come the da day of the tho o Zion when the right 1 I It IOU shall hall be or of God And of at Christ and ahall with a t and years Tie Tle Sabbath the seventh thousand years J la Is right at our door will fulfIllment x r Look but upon the developments ot of science and thought or of the past five i the Invention of prInting the life whIch gave the printed 1 J word of God to the people the discovery ot of America which opened up or of thouM thoughts and nell tend to prepare for the gnat event occurred 1 1 In the opening yore years of the century now no birth and calling or of the Joseph Smith God the Father and W isle Son Christ C came III to toJ X J this modern prophet restored again the original plan of the t hood th the true to men on earth arth anti and Inaugurated the or of orL L th the of time In which nil all thine are to be nil ae spoken of at by bythe J the mouths of the holy prophets prophet j L Through thus n work le 18 begun by which n a people wm will be prepared r I Ito to meet the Savior when He shall visit the earth to upon Ullon It In l 1 I peace a year para The Th century now drawing upon u uc le II also to be one of preparation This f j revealed of the Kingdom shall be preached In nil all the world for tor n a wit wH 1 p j need unto all nations before the end Men Ien are now called upon to rl repent nt and o obe bit be baptised thus placing In line wIth the ot of nod Goo which r j jare are Bre rapidly developing toward the time when the Savior shall upon the theL L 1 earth with ms Ills chosen Church His llis people are aN the Latter ay ayt 1 t Saints file 1111 Church Is the tho Church of at Jesus or of Solute HIs fits J 1 mouthpIece le II the prophet who stands nt at their head This Is my 1 E I I 1 bear this testimony to all the world I do H ft soberly Moberly and I In n I the he full i ii i knowledge ot of 11 what hat I say MY I have hat been aa Olat d with this work for tor tort forty r ri I i of the century now closing I 1 have I had d experience among i ii i men ot of the UIO world end have come In contact with tin thought ot of this f century of Invention and science and am In the full enjoyment or of m my i t This Thle therefore dots does not lIot come came or of Ignorance fan fant fani j t i or a 11 lack ot of experience with the thought and ot of the ale age or 1 i if f I th the of the lI man cn of the world but I hear henr that It has hils been lIeen made malic j C to rte b by the of the tho SpirIt of ef God I know It Is true J 1 J FRA FRANCIS CIS M LYMAN LYIA y I i y p HI Ii H I IH IH IHn n n 00 1 t i t rt rii r IT II the close elON of the Nineteenth Century ends r ri i i W an epoch transcendently superior In t i tance to any since Ince tile the dawn of the 1 i iea c J and ea era ra The development of at letters art t which has h 1 been phenomenal I la but part ot of the ag 1 1 f gr gate 0 of the century about to ter terL y The of the race or of man have h L e ly market marked ehan change for tor the better co 0 that f nt at the loBE loae of the century peoples people ot of different nil ml 1 and excretes amenities un on onG i iJ c fj Are nearer Il x G c l In 1801 J l The experiment of self elt government In tIle the United i that commands n the Admiration of the Into n a Stales S has bas 1180 10 the Ideal I la prominently BUg eug i told fold In the year world Within It Its ample f Notwithstanding the degenerate stratum still found In a per 1 4 c Ion 1011 Is In lite libertY and the pursuit ot of when according f i iTI i to others the same ume J 1 with tho dhow of In TI Tle ot of the world art are 4 Insomuch that nearly all 11 that Is II for tor the comfort r the past t century country In III the world Yet there j of at man Is being produced In every while hilt mankInd are better ort oft I connection that J c I la a melancholy th thought in this than their It te II an Ol open fn whether we w lint are better Jetter morally than should x xi i ithan end and environment we M th they were rei whereas Judged 11 by our than i Improved morally morall and religiously In the earn me II ns as we III have ve 1 advanced J Jc i the earth arth at the present f of Tile The metal statue or of the tho rAce In many parts 1 c or of tI the century trot but 11 by time I be atI shoe the o opening i ithe ithe t the 1 stand of the Master the world I le pot yet et ready to I pea muster In 01 and while moving 0 the world moves the Divine Still we ma may say It le 18 to be b e hOlled It Il wilt advance In the tho right i i if f 1 Concurrent with other events event of the century one on has transpired that adds halo or of light 4 greatly Gran to I Its glory and of magnificence that oats n a f C r Into the future futuro the of at the Lord In per parson on who ho opened x r the heavens and has bas l Iken to man again In hAS revealed the tho of the tho thor atlon or of the of times Umes In which the i iway I a and In the dispensation I t r way shall Lo J prepared for tor the coming of the tho Son of Stan Ian C Tit The Twentieth Century will reecho receive n a heritage of good bequeathed to r rIt f It by Its c tor and tt It la Is not utopIan to sa say that among Its to t mil may be seen the realization of the hopes and of nil all the prophets prophete j the W ld began 1 Af 1 W Y H I H I HI I t rH l V V V v V VV I H H l it H I r lm prediction of the pro prophet h of old that the 1 i TIlE Lord would lour our out Itla upon all flesh has hall been verified to a wonderful de degree during r the present century r The ot of the Father and the Son and 1 t the Introduction 0 of the latter to the modern 1 L a z I L prophet the bestowal of at the Holy bood and r rj j 1 the ot of the divine light lIht not stone alone IX ex i F r alted the and led to great t religious fervor f z y It also alo awakened In men mens minds mind the spirit of In 1 rbt fh bone hoane the farm the garden have 1 been made more to In very every way labor 1 t saving devices delce comforts com tort and adornments have been added ht m mu i tb the minds mInd of Franklin i ii u The results of upon i Fulton Morse Edlon and hundreds hundred of lesser lights In the fild 1 of at Invention are seen een in III our steamships railways telegraphs telephones 3 and printing In the lI lighting ot of all kinds kInd ot of e ded machin 1 i or ory the of and the discovery ot of hund hundreds d of 1110 i lj j I of every kind The There may luay well cau cause us to exclaim with j ji I i ser Morse lorM What hath bath God wrought 1 1 If In the closing days or of the th century ontur such uch wonders have been n 1 x 1 manifest what of the one with mans Inventive genius Improved h 4 f and by experience and enlightened by an Increased How or of the tha Holy 4 i SpIrit The wide diffusion or of book learning places the humblest men lIIn of today toda lid ride lIy by aide with the mot most exalted of all al former periods j The ot of the world standing III u the Great Ruler end and judge i if f Amon among men lien In the rah lIh and with JIl Ills government of love e and c bind In WI nos together torether In universal peace and union III fa a pleasing The developments of the nineteenth as aa compared the twentieth on n i ii i tury will 11 appear but bul a as tars In the firmament beside beld the light lIht t tn n of at the noonday sun Bun Our heavenly Father has decreed 0 a millennia I day Are Area we not hastening to the enjoyment en of 18 prIvileges J a JOHN l lI t i ir I y r r H HiHi r i i rH HIi H HI H X 1 N the merciful ot of our ty X I IN I rather tather WI we win wilt soon lOOn have bave the cud and Well Wella f a v c Inge or of the totally 11 and ot of 4 I another Christmas Daya da day held beld for the cele t J or of the natal day clay ot of the anointed Savior 0 of oft r rI I t t the world Christ Christy 1 r y The later day have observed the 1 day of Dec u a general holiday for tor Metal 3 y Ia 3 rr fj thy they cia do not bellev b that Christ wu was born Oft 1 1 that day And the old tradition of Santa CIu 1 t la a kept which brings and happiness to the j heart or of there Insomuch that the 01 day I Is looked forward to by b them J 1 j with joy and ty I 1 The fhe Sainte apprecIate any kindly reference to our Lurl J Jr I r Christ for they are bleared above bove any ny other people on the earth because ot of D their faith and the knowledge the they have obtaIned through theIr obedience to tot t the Goebel 1 restored In th these last lut 11 Jaya a i TRey They are not dependent upon tradition Thy They enjoy the gift of the Ho holy 4 c 1 which le II a revelator It I the Spirit ot of truth to guide thou thON who obey X 1 the doctrine ot of the Father Ito into III all truth and show them things to come ThIe j x l of at truth la III the ot of the Saint Sainta a UI to prepare them for the X 1 1 A advent of the Messiah and for eternal life It Its fellowship them eyes erell to i isee see ears to hear and the I heart t 1 On this the Sainte can lie be congratulated upon UllOn the sweet peace pace and 4 r tbt they enjoy enJo through being obedIent to the Lord Jesus JUI Christ who l L Las f as the Scriptures Scripture say SA being made perfect perte t nt He became the author of eternal T unto all them that obe obey v P Through nor hu I 1 and obedience we receIve the recompense n of at reward namely the I i knowledge of Gad whom to mow know la II eternAl L I l Falth alth and f i Alone can ORn brin bring unto us UI this choice knowledge W We have to do dothe the will of the rather Jather to know ot of the doctrine This Thill Ir IB the kt key of eternal lite Ilfe 4 f for For or to know the only true God and Jesus Juu Christ who was as sent nt ot of God I Is oter 3 x nal life 4 4 1 In III the social gatherings of the Sainte Saint Jesus Christ Is always remembered 1 r ry y Sabbath we remember In partaking ot of tb the Sacrament of lr the I j Lords Supper and nd praise and Ing I is rendered to our everlasting I 1 Father In heaven for tor the eternal life and happiness Ut Its bath made tt It possible 1 1 y for UI ua to obtain through our faith humility and obedience and not only on i i iChrist Christ Christmas mal Day Da but always In III the hearts and ham homes of the f I Ile le Is the Savior Salor beloved honored and revered reTIred I Ot c y i iI H S HII rif I hI H n ro iI rH y nm 1110 NIneteenth Century with Its IUt Joye and aad 4 1 I dry T sorrows I Is now and the Twentieth Is r r rI I I Jt lu its course Now lIow sublime the ot thought i 1 r of If upon lint of oC centuries X 1 one Into the dim put pant and nd the other he be 4 r 1 to unfold Its i j In cent con a century we are shuck ck ly by i f fIts Its Ita nna am we w realise alln that It I Is Impossible i to grasp the whole record ot of a hundred years of r f fi i C human activity We see Ite but a small mall number of r rIts L LIts Its leading events a very verr few Jt the actIng act f 1 Ing chants eba tern and but a little ot of tin th sum aum total 1 ot of the r by the ot of the men who have lived and la Is t 1 bored during durin I the And yet ret fit at no time Ume have the for tor study stud JJ t In log hl iry Iwen so 10 great u at present The array ot of writ r 1 er ere for tor and newspapers have been D to 10 many recorders ot of what tau has transpired during the century They have accumulated aIm ahna t an I i I amount or of Information concerning the men and everts of oC the put hundred years stilt It forma but An portion of tb the whole record for tor to j write writ In full would require r perhaps live five thousand ot of and when these wet obtained they would constitute only the brlek and build i ij would cull be the the historical structure There j ng materIal for tor complete J 4 tuk tak of writing the histories ot of families communities and coup coun 3 f sad our record can be equal Iqual to the book E I 1 which John the Revelator saw opened and anS meta men were wert Jud Judged out or of the must be fouad the works wora ot of 1 things that were written In n the books book ha these I all men and tie thought II forced upon WI ue that however humble the l l f nay may bt be hla hie words word and acta acs cover pass pap In the annale annal of the 4 T T a What b has been recorded et w Tilli Thu I is a mementoes t for alt all and a as are also allO beings by scanning their thir ice C II Ives applying severe ere t to all their seta etl not allowing to La tura found und Into It la II possible to sere elye very er nearly Ut U cot cor I rIOt reel to the question file Saints standing before the p of the l should bould with hearts swelling with mth gratitude to Oo I for the Oa great t 4 It Ild tea baa done In the 01 put peat century restoring 1111 Oo Gospel fl and areal I Ith la lax x th dl of the of et times t form Corm the firm resolve not to repeat peat pall errors but to 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