Show It was on Sunday Sunda July 14 1889 that hat President George Geor Q Cannon delivered an address In the Taberna Tabernacle Taber Taber- na nacle natIe le that incensed th the Utah commission com coni- mission and which caused the c m- m mission to quote at length from It ItIn itin In n order that it might alight be transmItted transmIt transmIt- ted ed to t the tle e Interior department In Washington to Sh HV th the thC conditions as ds' ds the commission lon believed existed In n Utah at t that tIthe tinie Said Ir si dent r i I i In In no Instance h has It been een pro proved ed that the Latt Latter day i f-i aY Saints have ve vesone gone sone hi Iri defiance of the word of ot God contained contained In the Old Jd ind uld Tes Tea taments aments Our d doctrines are before the he world for tor them to Investigate for or them 1 if rare lare vi they w tong ng to dis- dis prove rove i If it we have ave been persecuted th then hen n i It h has not been been for sin There h has s been no no new thing on earth t for fort r rIt It t W would Uld be a a. a anew new thing If the wicked should be persecuted by bythe lythe the s Such 5 ich ch cha a thing has not not occurred oc oc occurred occurred oc- oc since the beginning of or tim time Whoever er heard 6 of f righteous nien Jllen banding themselves themselves' together r to pe per per- s cute and pu punish 11 th the wicked wicked In InvarIably Invariably Invariably In- In variably it has b been en the tho case ase that the he righteous have been q persecuted by y the wi wicked ked kedi t that laws ha have e been trampled upon that god good order has been overthrown overthrow Ii In hi order to re reach ch chand h hI I and punish h righteous people The Latter day Saints have haye b been n driven fro from in i their thel hom homes s Jn in the states tates their ho houses ses have been burr burned ed their pro property property- erty destroyed and nd they themselves have been driven out Some Som of ot them hu e been een murdered and nd ot others ers have fallen falln fall fall- en n through persecution by y th the wayside wayside way- way side Ide but it has not been because they hey were more wicked than othel people eople The laWs vs were not trampled trampled tram- tram pled led upon the constitution ba nut nut not be been een 1 I violated in order t to punish the wIckedness that could not be lie pun pun- shed by any other means It Las bas been seen because we haye have rece reCeived ve 1 and taught aught as we the Ing nc gosp the gospel the l-the the gospel of the Son I of f God God The hold that the gospel of the Lord x rd Jesus Christ has taken upon the he hearts of those who have embraced embraced em- em em- em braced raced it it in our day s due to the fact act that the toe message was a true one ne that the promises made ma do were fulfilled that those th se who had bach obeyed received th the according to tole the le promise promis that had been fleen given I It it had not been so sp these thes valleys llers would not now be peopled by the Latter day Saints these settlements settle settle- ments ments extending extending north north and nd south and ind east and w would lIt would not ha hare haye e ead had ad an existence this tabernacle would n never ver have be been bean it built this temple emple so near near its completion letlon w would uld never netter have had a a. foundation stone tone laid But because the tho message message mes- mes sage age was from heaven and heaven leaven n bestowed the gifts and biess- biess Ings as the elders had promised therefore the Latter-day Latter Saints have lave gathered together hero here they e laVe haie come from froni V various lands they ley ha have e obeyed the voice 0 of God and nd have testified that through their obedience they have hav received the he fulfillment of ot that promise It ItIs Itis Its Is s this t that at has created 11 this Ibis ls cohe- cohe lon slon this union this Identity of or inter inter In- In ter this oneness In knitting the people tog together ther and making them themo to o a great extent of ot one ne ne heart and andone andone one ne mind |