Show SUNDAY SERI CES y noia hold in the salt L fa i e tabernacle Tater nacle naolo july I 1 the con congregate 0 an it last has I 1 t sunday was large and ve acy attentive to the sermon thary were among tho the crowd many of J the kansas editors who had remained rei nail le I 1 1 over to view c 1 our charming catl a n d many in t n y va of f these t 1 i e s e took ook vcr bati reports of tile the sermon which awas was one of the best that hat has been preached in the tabernacle for some time there here I 1 is were ere a large number of gentiles present also alao residents of salt lake who were very attentive to all the exercises hut i who bo seemed to be more interested teresteA in in the music than in ill the other parts of tile the services tile the choir kd the congregation in tile the banging binging of the hymn livi iiii come come ye saints no toil nor labor fear this was followed by the anthem let the mountains shout for joy the last anthem was how bleau lie a u ticul upon tile mountains the on only I 1 y speaker N w as ULDER ceorge BYWATER all thoughtful believers believer in ill christ now believe that we ire are arc not independent being IF but are the creations and exponents of tile the creative wisdom and power of the potent and puissant creator our father above the creator of tile the heavens leavens ond the earth this is tile the great foundation stoneson stone on aich is built the superstructure of every io 0 cancel christian religion n of today to day I 1 ay no matter how r nuch much the creed of on one e may differ from froin that of another the later day saints recognize recognize reco anize this fact bil bit bilt t th they ey rec recognize og other D n and nd as deep principles in connection with it they believe that it is not sufficient that we sl should admit that there is a supreme being and admit that ile he is the creator of all that is kenov n but that we must entirely entirely 31 comprehend all the wisdom lie he has revealed to mankind in all a cs and all peets both ancient and modern the christian world upholds the belief that god lias has never revealed to mankind any one principle that is is super superfluous flous that all is extremely necessary for tile the guidance and salvation of mankind but they have taken the revelations of god anti and have lave applied to them their own construction conet ruction by this method much as the true deanin meaning 9 of the scrip P tures has been lost most of which is very important the saints hold thata that a man mut of necessity 1 e li iq all that lias bas ti 7 51 i f vr ever been spoken to mankind mank through the awful voice our our principles make it feces enry eary that wo we shall believe in all that god has revealed through the prophets who have recorded dehose revelations in the old and newles in the hook book of mor mormon oil and in tile the look book of doctrines and covenants god has revealed in all 3 ages es when lie ile has had a people on oil the earth v who ho would receive his revelations and in all times the I 1 great underlying principle revealed by min him lias has been faith in him as the father and creator of all mankind this faith is the I 1 he fundamental funda montil principle of ill all religion for without it we cannot believe in the revelations of god through his if is prophets on the earth without it we cannot see the truth of gods way without it we cannot reach the gates gatea that lead into itin tile the everlasting 0 life in tile the hereafter with faith we can call vo 0 o rely on his word that we will know that though the earth may be shivered into atoms and though the heavens leavens may fall and chaos reign supreme not one jot of gods truth shall fall and with this faith in jesus jesu i we shall reach the gates of pearl and at our knock they will stand ajar and we can enter into the glorious al orious existence in the alie other orld T as we have been promised with this faith in gol goi and lid ilis his works we shall be able to see sec wherein idank mankind ind lias bas gone one abaray from froin the paths of truth caliari cli arity ty and virtue we may sec the straight and beaten track that leads up to the shining gates our eyes will instinctively pick out the path that lead away from this et straight raight way and though in an unguarded moment we nia may y stray we ran can regain D tile the true pathway there can be no doubt that in all ages and in all conditions man it bail lias has strayed into the by paths ilia t lead away from the true road this fact is attested 1 by all the revelations that have beet given hy by god to man messengers meyseng gers have hav been sent in every age if to warn otto people of the world that they theara the are arc straying noah preached I 1 as a heavenly lica venly messenger sc riger to the people of tile the earth for more than one hundred and twenty ye years irs lie he told the people that they were ivere straying into the by paths that lead inevitably to destruction lie he exhorted them with al all ithe the power of the spirit of god to turn from their wickedness and audru to ag again ain enter into the right way but buthe he wa was s scoffed at ill the people cleople refused to believe in tile the div divine iiiI 1110 message sao he bioust to them chev lid did n not take otake his advice arid and repent of their j but continued their wicked till the wrath of god C od overtook all them m and they were crushed bj tile the weight of his vengence yen gence in these days one often liars if f popular opinion and judging budgin by bv what lie ho hears it has 1 alpar apparently IV become the bel belief lief of most of ti le ij in habitants of this tin s planet that whatever eve the majority believes to IN IK right must of necessity be right one has not to look far to see scie tile the fallacy of idea were lvere the th e great great truths that were preached b by y noah by moses mozas by the other apostles 1 by jesus and by his disciples ever believed beli ved by y tic the majority in tile the days when those men lived liv ed lias it not always been tile the case when a new idea was waa preached by any man that that man has been scoffed and scorned ried by the majo majoritY rit his beliefs ridiculed and himself ill treated has it not been that only a very small minority advocated those ideas when jesus came upon the earth his doctrines were in direct opposition to all the religious be beliefs cefis of the world ile he was looked upon by the great majority as a debei deceiver ver and a blasphemer his doctrines were pronounced by his 0 opponents as wing contrary t to 0 tho idea of good government and ile ho was accused on e very every side of adi tion and conspiracy a against abnit the power of t the I 1 e caesar and yet christ tau taught 0 ry lit only what had been taught to the jews for hundreds of the divilly inspired men who had been jhc messengers inesse ligers of god in the aps ages in which they lived had alio ali jews really believed in the doctrines that lint had been taught by mos boscn and his scarcely less illustrious followers they would have at once recognized that jesus was wag tile ion long expected 0 messiah the ruler who 0 aras wago to lift up mankind but darkness has settled upon the land arid and the minds of men were corrupted and they did not see sec their salvation depended upon receiving jesus with open arms but they dogged mill him to ilia death and even up upon oil the cross they lid did not recognize him when iris most noble and divine spirit shone forth and lie ile asked forgiveness for those who tortured him ill the messenger of god in every land and in every age have been thus treated and they are arc being treated so in this age the children of ownien men haac again strayed stra Y ed from the puth and darkness h haa a 3 settled on their minds tho the truth has been again revealed and ag again a in the C TT sen ers nave ann and scorned corned by those who are believing in in the doctrines of men because they think that as tile the majority believes must bo be ri right P ht this would appear to bo be an ail ab burdith if one will only think that god has said a narrow narro w way leads to salvation which is hard to find and few shall find it but a broad level way leads to perdition and down this road many shall go and meet the measure of gods wrath because of their disbelief the speaker remarked on oil repentance and baptism and closed with an ail eloquent prayer 1 that the blessing blessina of tile the almighty lg i gaty should rest rea upon upon all the children of men |