Show salt lake services service elder D B 11 II roberts was w q tile the liecker pe li iker eaker it at the salt lake tiber taber sunday afternoon kipik 4 alwa IC it gogof of ill the work or of god lie he saif iid that the people of the world do int clearly understand its import it may be to refer 1 rielly briefly t li I 1 the bile religious view of it is believed by bv the catholics that peter e established a 1 church at ironle 1 ionia and having hagim ins his beat of au hurita there lie governed the whole ChI church lreh Inasi inasmuch nuell na as peter lid did hold the keya and presided ove avci I 1 tho the church established by christ Cl irist be by bv that authority lid did in ill a bunce control the church but anothy r great division of christendom christ c edoin arose the protestant church the Prote protestants stans like tile the catholics believe that jesus established the gospel and that he lie appointed apostles to preach it to ahr w world 0 ald ns as the means by which life and immortality was brolle brought olt back to fallen man christ clorist lid did est establish ablis i a i church but after a time through tile the cun cunning ninn 0 craftiness of men abuses crept in ill aid did so abound that thai the simple forn form of church government became transformed into a biera telly image ima a e worship cv 0 1 F ili I 1 was tas permitted the ordinances din ances oatlie gospee were changed and it was clait claimed ned that the original gifts were lost was because the Chur cl had bad declined through tile the corruptions corrupt ions which abounded but what relationship does mormonism hold to this great controversy no one acquainted wit with tho the early history of the church of christ can doubt that abominations did creep into it false teachers arose by whom the way of truth was evil spoken or of tile the people heaped up to themselves teachers having itching cars and the beautiful gospel of jeus jesus christ became so de faced that one could tc arcely lecog nise nile it as the pure and undefiled religion reli el which lie established the only way of restoring 0 the Z gospel was mas by opening the heavens and bavin having g it restored anew to the children of men mormonism is not a new gospel but the true one restored with all its assurances of eternal life it is the duty of th the e latter day saints to bear this testimony to tile tho world but they cannot claim the D gospel as theirs if they do they i are liable to lose it the preaching preachy ng of the gospel is not confined to tile tho sons SODS of israel who are sent to procla proclaim ini the gospel to the nations of the earth the latter day saints can preach the gospel by the works that they do liy by the example they set the building 0 of the salt sail lake temple was a sermon preached by those who contributed to its erection Morn onnon ism will be better known hereafter by the character of the church and the works it performs than by the individual labor of preaching tile gospel if the discontent and the evil mannies lations which we see aeo in the world today shall continue to 0 grow row disruption and anarchy shall break up the government of the earth but it will be otherwise in zion for peace and good order shall prevail in lier her wida the first and great commandment man nian dment is to love god and we vire can only do this by becoming acquainted quain ted with him by knowing his attributes and diameter character where is there a roan man acquainted with the history of jesus christ that can call withhold ins his love and admiration mi ration of the beautiful attributes portrayed in christs character even such infidels ns as huxley ingersol and flume though no not t believers befi believers evers in orthodox religion have acknowledged 0 in him the grandest ran dest chara character acter that over ever adorned a human being the reason men inen do not love tho the e gospel of god i is because they do not know it and before they can observe the f first and great commandment it is necessary for thew then to become acquainted quain ted with his character F BANNERMAN |