| Show salt lako laho services Ser the salt lake stake conference which met here on oil saturday and sunday was very well attended arid and the music rendered by the choir was especially b good i in n view view i of tile the fact that there were more members of the choir present than have been seen for some time the report of the stake for the six rix months ending auy 1st ast 1892 showed that there there are in the stake tile alie following number of officers and members of the church of the first presidency 3 of the apostles 5 of the patriarchs 13 of the severities seventies 1311 high D priests elders 2103 priests teachers deacons 1532 members member officers arid and members 22 children cli ildren under eight years v ears 0 of f ag age e total of souls families jn in the matter of sustaining officers the list was the same frame as usual only slight chances being 15 made in the gon general cral list and only one addition in tho shape of a b general stake board of education I 1 which now consists of tile the fol following low lirt men all angus allus us M cannon joseph E H taylor charles W V penrose Penro sn david J 11 il IV 11 Y I 1 riter liter and R K thomas president geopge GLop GE q 1 CANNON spoke on oil sunday afternoon I 1 am gratified that the reports that hat have come in during this his conference ference show how s that the S saints are arc indulging andul ing in so ho little litigation nowadays and as the time rolls on oil there seem to be fewer trials before tile the different quo runis of tile church and a better feeling seems to prevail among the Sai ritti this is is a 11 very good sign for we can a attain to alie perfection demand by god only by bein being 0 at peace with all ma mankind ilind k jesus said if a man inan sue you bior fur your cloak give him your coat also alo but ut by b no means ir quarrel barrel with hini him in ili any way for ivoti if 3 do you will be equally culpable in the matter and will lie be punished so always let the other ili man an do all the wron wrong 0 and let each man mail that lie has no interest in tire the sin sill that is coniing coming comin in let adv ciny man mail impose on oil you as lie will arid and make any conces hilds dions that ire possible t to 0 avoid a quarrel anti and though you may ii not ot live FO 0 happily in th this s I 1 life ife you voll will be more blessed in alic tile hereafter here aft er we often sav that this people is the only op ay true people of goa lod anti and this til is remark oftentimes causes auses much comment among those who do not know of our C customs ll and beliefs we do not say that this is the 1 people ople that has been chugell out of all the world to be saved paved and that this people alono alatia will lie 10 saved but wo we do claim that this people lias has tile the true gospel go in ill its it 1 cuStO custody dv and that this people has been empowered powered ci tu to spread it over lie he face of the globe fo 0 o all in ill may have ai a chance to heir hear it arid and eve their feet fact guided in the right 0 paths arid and claim that only th thoe oae who embra cellie teachings of this gospel we hold forth will be saved we now go to the earth with tile glad news that the voice of revelation ion has hab aynn again unsealed the blue vault of tile skies and that man need no longer grope in the dark for a aright liri glit and shining light has been sent to guide him in liis his search for eternal happiness hut but this iier news 4 is not re received as it should be even the majority of those who believe that god is the supreme being who believe in the bible and contend that god did once communicate with man cast a side aside this precious glad news and say indifferently that tire the awful voice has been forever stilled but there have been some per eons bons in all parts of the world who for years have been in doubt as to religion and who were bore troubled le A because the doctrines of the creeds they knew did not satisfy them and when our elders went to these people with their testimony of the truth of this work those honest hearted persons were touched for the words they card sounded like the truth ind and they had faith and humbled themselves them selwa vvs before god and soon they too received a testimony as to the t ath of this work those who were thus tous bcd have gathered in these valleys for they were siezer with the spirit of gathering and have formed this mighty people thy the spirit of gathering has always seized seize those who we were re thelrue lie true followers of god for they wish in this way to escape tire the punishments that are arc to come upon the earth through cr the vengeance cance of god this work that the saints are on engaged a ed in must be either right or wrong this people must be the people of god or it must not be the people of god there is no middle ground to stand off and each person must decide for himself whether this is the alie true church of god or whether it is not arid and must take the consequences of his hi decision all ali the t ne churches have been named because of forne earthly thing connected with them man many y of them bein being 0 named after their founders th this is is ie the only church that pretends to be the true church of god and that gives god credit for all that has been done by the church no latter day saint will say ay that this church was founded by joseph smith or that it has been kept together 15 by br igbani brigham young or by any other man but all will aver that joseph joeph smith and each ail and every man or woman who has ever acen a member of this church have been but instruments in the hands of god by which lie designed to accomplish liis ilis purposes toward mankind the speaker remarked on oil tile fact that the missionaries of the church are uneducated in ill many instances arid and yet the they are succeed ful in their heir labors lie ile also remarked on the peace and prosperity of this people mople arid and of their hio hiigli li aims in regard to mankind As to personal testimony morly he paid eliat no man would be refused a I 1 te direct from god if lie he dould only ask aak for it in the alie i proper manner |
