Show SUNDAY SEn SERVICES VICES hald in salt lako lake city tabernacle on oil may t 1893 there was tile usual sized congregation gre gation present at the tabernacle on last sunday grohde was the only speaker ile he read the fourth chapter of malachi I 1 is as follows S for behold the da day y cometh that shall burn as an oven and all tile the proud aye all that do wickedly shall be as stubble and the day that cometh shall burn the them 1 11 1 up saith tile lord of hosts that i it shall leave them nei neither ther root nor bi branch anch but eliut unto 3 you that fear my name shall all the sun of righteousness arise with healing in its wings and ye shall go forth and grow up tip as a ca calves ives of oatlie tile stall and ye shall tread down the wicked for they shall be ashes under tinder the soles of your feet in the day that I 1 shall do this saith the lord of hosts remember yo ye the law of moe Moses my servant which I 1 commanded unto him in hareb horeb for all israel with thu the statutes and judgments behold I 1 will send you elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the lord and lie he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to the fathers lest I 1 come arid and smite the earth with will a curso curse the speaker then discoursed on oil the ideas suggested 1 by this scripture to some length it A short synopsis of his remarks is as follows there is now and has been ever since our temple was first started a great deal of curiosity felt about it and everywhere we see roost intense interest in the building C as well in non cormons mormons as in mormons cormons Mor mons there lias has always been a great deal of interest in the temple building propensities of the mormons cormons and enquiries are often made by the uninformed as to the purpose of building them and the use 0 o which they are to be put the saints are the only people on the face of the earth who erect such buildings and on them devolves the pieces necessity sity of explaining their purpose and this brings up the iho subject of the fate of all those who have lied died during the d dark ark ages without a knowl knowledge of jesus this question lias has agitated the minds of reli religionists 0 zionists for centuries and many curious theories haye been advanced until ii i I 1 ids tat day clay tile the professed ministers of the gospel in other churches mako make claim that all these unfortunates will be consigned to everlasting t punishment in hell bell this idea is i s truly monstrous and must also soap ap pear to all right minded men and many have turned away from the churches and have become infidels because of it but a different doctrine is announced to the world by the latter day saints for in the early history of the church a revelation was given to joseph smith which abic 11 explained that in the plan of god there is to be no eternal torment for any but those who co commit malt unpardonable sins but on the contrary each person is to reach the th c higher salvation after he shall havo have atoned for his sins of the flesh the punishment is called eternal not because Lic causo it is to be unending but because Lie cause of the eternity of god and because of crimes that may be committed which would subject act the criminal to almost unending 0 atonement but the measure by which punishment is to lie be meted out is not by jy such a measure as would place all men under the same test and exclude those who do not reach the proper level and include those who do 0 this would be unfair because we would punish the man who did a wrong act in the belief that lie was doing right as lie he had never been told it was wrong arid and forbidden but the testis test is bobc to be maddon made on ardans a mans arnans works according to his ligh i if a man be ignorant of right and do wrong innocently he will not be severely punished for such transgressions but if he have any glimmering of the truth and do any act which lie he knows to be wron wrong 9 then lie he shall have a just punishment meted out to liim him the one who does great wrong shall be marked with many stripes because of its commission the one who does a small wrong shall receive but few the gospel taught by jesus christ is a gospel of salvation for all men and he who regulates liis his life by the truths laid down in that gospel will attain to a high salvation each attaining to a height e according to the degree in which he to bo regulates his life lie ile who is wholly obedient and observant becomes fit to lie be an associate a of god and the angels of heaven and lie he will be privileged to stand at the foot of the great white throne arid and ever behold the face of liis bis maker the conditions of this gospel are numerous many things being required of mankind which aro are absolute absolutely lv necessary for his it is eternal salvation salvati 0 there is is baptism fe for r instance but most important is a belief in jesus jests our S savior and faith in liis his teachings but there are millions who have never even heard the name of acius who have died in ill utter titter ignorance 0 of his love for mankind and the work bo be lias has done for t their heir salvation and whit what are arc we to do with these persons dersons as well as those who have died led during those dark ages when tile the ospel aspel was taken from the earth because mankind nian kind had strayed front from the true path the so called christian sec sects to consign colial n unfortunates to hell hall but this now era has brought forth the truth in this matter and wo know that god in ill his infinite mercy has provided a plan by which they may all be saved and may attain to the highest glory god gave joseph smith a revelation i ev elation about fifty years ago which made it clear that those unfortunates can bo be saved through proper ordinances here on earth the revelations made it known i that if a descendant should lie be baptized baptised sed here on earth for arid and in the name of his alcest ancestors ors that would record a baptism on oil earth for the ancestor and so open up the way for him to reach this eternal salvation temples are com commanded mandel to be built by bv another revelation of the prophet for the proper solemnization of the rites of the dead and that thatis is why the saints build temples and will build temples so long on as it may bo be necessary in gods plan of salvation the effects of this building of temples lias has been most salutary in the hearts of the people of today has grown t a desire to provide for tile tho well ivell being of their pro genitors geni tors with the consequence that all who believe in baptism for the dead have begun 0 to trace back their lineage and to ascertain their ancestors for many hundreds of years back and as this search goes e goes on more and more ancestors are found through al almost most miraculous means and the ordinances are performed them this stirring on tile ilio part of the saints has borne much fruit and since they began anve investigations i many odthe of the gentiles even have begun t to trace their families back A gereral etheral love of descendants for their progenitors is seen everywhere but more especially among the saints and all al this makes us see that the hearts of the children have been turned to their fathers the president enforced his re sparks by quotations from scripture ancient and modern and favorably compared these doctrines with t the he same doctrines iu in the old church ile he announced also luring during his sermon that the hopes of many will bo be disappointed as the temple is not to be opened again 0 to men who do not belong to th the e church EUGENE YOUNG |