Show tabernacle SERVICES bieh at salt lake city sunday nov 1892 the tabernacle on last sunday was very cold and thoe e was but bat a small congregation there were b n noue none of tile tho general church authorities present and only president eident Pr angus 31 cannon of tile presidency of tile the stal stake presiding re in a pres asid bishop william 13 1 preston t 0 a and elder john nicholson were also on the stand ELDER JOHN was tile only speaker his renia remarks were almost wholly upon the logical and in philosophical aspect of I 1 thu h u plan of salvation I 1 he contending that everything in the gospel oll ill beliefs and all practices t ran an bo be subjected to all logical n tests and be found perfect perfy t there tire are some same he said who do not believe in the atonement of the savior as they do not think that there was any any necessity ita for alim to meet cot tile the trials ile liedig did in order to savo save mankind then there are many many besides this as to ID thu atonement many of these as to belief baerg n founded on oil differences of opinion as a S to t t lie manner of 0 f peopling tile tho earth in the first place now tile the belief of the sal saint ants is that man has ha s a spiritual as well as it a physical existence ind and that lie hu ila has lived before lie he came calne into this earthly tabernacle in ili this we are arc opposed by afian many y who say any it cannot be reconciled either with reason or with the scriptures now I 1 say we can call reconcile the idea with tile the scriptures for maity maily passages L are found whose meaning cannot be otherwise not the least among th those olze is a rep reply IY of jesus jebus tile the jews i aid that the they we vl d das bended from abraham jit a god and then jesus said ti a f was older even than abr abam saying this his many c e n t u r isal ft qt the death of this prophet dacay jovn r hillI himself self had an all existence before lie ill came upon the earth carth th then enas ato to this theory of a pro existence not ot being reconciled with logic ind and reason look at man As lias has been said what a piece of is man mail how noble in ill reason I 1 how infinite lit in faculties in form and moving liow low express and admirable lit in 7 action liow how like an angel angel in apprehension liow how like a god od look at the wonders lie hat has accomplished lit in every al age ge of the world we need not go ur far from this building alone to see fee many of the seeming miracles lie has performed and could man mail gain all this thib knowledge and all this 1 power ower that lie has shown in ili every age agal in ili the brief span of life that is given g ivell to him then look at all nature wherever we go wo we see that the plan ol of nature is gradual development AN wf t see the trees and tho the blowers grow and all semis seems to be on this one OIK general plan of growing and developing gradually into the creations that are tire the highest in ili that wity way hut but when wi we look around u us sec th eliat lt in ill man in ili many luany instances in stalle es where nien men have shown unusual conius even ev en they the had been allowed to see iauch more than llian the their irown own house they have a comprehension of subjects far beyond the comprehension of many many of their elders and have solved questions that have pulled the 60 6 0 why anre c could they obtain this comprehension it must have come down to them from some past experience and have we e not a right liht 0 to suppose that that experience was obtained in ill a life that was before ti this j is this is reconciled with and with ti scripture and as anthis chii can lie with thoe two things so can call we reconcile with them the alie atonement of christ ve anve are told in in the scriptures that there rould could lo 10 bl no resurrection without there was as a fall and in an atonement in ili aider that there hould be a fall there must be a combination of tho L with will matter the earthly tabernacle was given to us its to rain gain an experience that would lead us lis to the everlasting 0 glory and in fiig alii earthly tabor taber ducle was madu made fit fall hy by that fill man was condemned to death lie wa debaes below the all plain of immortality and there mut must bo be atonement fur the orif original final sin shi that aou would ill ablin give to mankind nan kind tile life everlasting man lan could not make the atone It himself as ag lie was debased and ILI id degraded no hero abere must bo I 1 10 gome infinite power to atone alone As s god had wrought the fall lie it was who could bring about tile atonement lic he lid did so through b ij the person of ilis his only begotten bogot son who sit sulT ered ter torments ments anil and met nie death in ili order that he might unlock the gates agn teg and let ictus us into tile the everlasting paradise c it has been eon said raid that thoro there is no love so great as ag that shiell 1 makes fakles one lay down clown his is life lit in the interest r 0 of f a 3 fr friend ien d this is the greatest t sacrifice that coil can bo be made and this sacrifice was wag made by the cavior i in ili order that lie ji might light t bo be sa saved v e 1 fur for pie h ki kingdom n d 0 in of f G god 0 d A and n is we contemplate the t great ivo lie iio bore us a love which prompted to such an act we ive should fee that in no way can call we serve tile the gracious too much As aa one hinks on tins this liis ills mind becomes J lied led with a desire to serve goi god all and to do food to ills his r fellow mai ilia lie to sees t that ho las has licen been kinfu in the sio of god in ill the futin the fp ker then w trent ent to show liow how all lie other parts of the lle gospel Os cull cabi lie ile reconciled to lot lopic 0 and elio wi gi g how div one can be saved through gl jen lenta ilance through gon going down into the he waters I 1 of lial ti kni ill in 1 on of the b buri urial aland and t n of tile savior and by havili having gg I 1 hands of a servant laid 00 on 11 tt theoph 11 iilo I 1 1 ants s lead head for the gift of the 11 nol I 1 erfe ElO you G |