| Show GIBES PRAISE TO PROPHET JOSEPH Brigham H. H Roberts Tells of ReawaKening of World Through Revelations Indorses Indorses Indorses In In- Labor Unions According to Brigham H. H H Roberts who was the speaker at t the tho Su Sunday day services in the Tabernacle the Revelations Reve Reve- Reve Revelations lations to tho the Ie prophet pr Joseph Smith were the reawakening of of the world and the signs of the millennium In his address Roberts declared that the theann ann announcement of Joseph Smith Smith- was the first awak awakening ning of the Christian mind He further took occasion to eulogize labor labor labor la la- bor unions In part art he said For leFor myself I do not hesitate to sa say y that I have the fullest confidence that tha t there is id a very intimate relationship i in u these thes things and that what we we have witnessed as taking place within the thelast thelast th e last century are mighty strides in th the e work of preparing the inhabitants o othe of f the earth for the coming reign of pea peal e fe that is to be also that this work wit with h which we are identified known by th the e world as Mormonism has q 1 a relationship p to the w worlds world's rIds rId's awakening it is the sign and the ensign o of this modern world awakening The a awakening of the earth begins begin s with the revelations of God to the Prophet Joseph Smith It seems to m me that that was the first great event i ithe in inthe n the tho opening of the new age that Js ds s t to be For many centuries even those who wh o believed in Jesus Christ had come t to the conclusion that revelation had d ceased that communion with God ha had d ended that the volume of scripture wa was s completed and forever closed It wa was s the announcement t to the world by the th e Prophet Joseph Smith that God ha had d spoken to him that was the first awakening awakening awakening awak awak- ening of the Christian mind to somo some great reat truths that since those those- d days ys have become a commonplace I am amnot not blind to the fact that organized organized or or- labor feeling its' its power sometimes sometimes some tIm times s forgets justice sometimes forgets forget s that which is ri right ht and sometimes violates vio vio- lates l law w and with the abuses that rise from or organized labor I have no sympathy sympathy sym pathy with them any more than I have sympathy with the lawless conduct o of f soulless corp corporations rations The crime of corporations corporations corporations cor cor- is quite equal to the crime o of f organized labor and the abuses of f power power pow er and the acts of injustice of those wh who o possess wealth is quite as great reat as th the e abuses of l la labor bor organizations I I. I havno have hav e no sympathy with the injustice an and d with the crime of either of f these tw two do o great eat factors of our our civilized life while e J I recognize good in both of these d de de- i |
