| Show tabernacle SERVICES apostle john W taylor Aa addresses arestes the large congregation services were held in logan tabernacle sunday jan 19 1890 at 2 p in prest S M stolen molen presiding the choir san sang as the ope opening ning hymn redeemer of israel el elder ider aurelius miner offered prayer after the rendition of a beautiful anthem by the choir APOSTLE JOUN JOLIN IV TAYLOR arose and addressed the large congregation gre gation at the instance of elder smith he be had bad accepted an invitation to spend a week in visiting the saints in cache valley and after speaking in most of the settlements of the stake slake lie he was glad to meet the saints of lo logan loan an elder taylor desired to address addre s s the saints saint as brothers and misters and to have a friendly talk with them the lord has commanded mankind to search the scriptures for in them could be found eternal life every man woman and child belonging to the church should be ab able to give a leason beason for the hope that i is within him but that is impossible to do do unless one be touched wit i the holy ghost I 1 feel like talking on the first principles of the gospel we are living in a day when prophets of the living god are upon earth not when to read and and believe the word of god was sufficient the Morn cormons mormons ions claim that are living servants and prophets of god upon earth to justify this stand it becomes necessary to refer to the holy scriptures the there re are a great number and variety of beliefs belief each one being dif lerent in its and doctrines now there must mua be some gome standard some test whereby we may know which way is right the bible says to man seek first the kin kingdom 9 dom of god and its righteousness and all other things shall be added unto you there must be some characteristics of every kingdom that will indicate to us when we find it when we go to the kingdom of great britain for instance we expect to see victoria rei reigning nl dg there are characteristics pertaining to the kingdom of god chereb whereby y everybody may know it I 1 am a member of the church of jesus christ and I 1 know that outside of that chur church h there is none that keeps the commandments of god as aa laid down in the bible there are certain certai a officers in every kingdom what are the officers of the kingdom of god the apostle paul was a man learned in the gospel and he said in his epistle to the ephesians that god had placed there apostles prophets I 1 rasters teachers etc for the work of the ministry until all should come to a union of faith and a fullness of know knowledge knowledg led of the son of man now when looking for the kingdom 1 expect to find these officers there and that they were placed there by the power and authority of god now I 1 desire to call your attention to the meaning of the word knowledge when jesus wanted to fi find ad out whether peter had knowledge of him he asked him whom do men say I 1 am peter answered baying some said he was jonas me some elias others that he be was a prophet raised from the dead but whom do you say say that I 1 am he asked of peter thou art jesus christ the son oi of the living god then jesus blessed peter and told him it had been revealed to him by his hie father in heaven this is a day of prophets for every man that has the holy ghost is a prop prophet liet for the holy spirit is 19 the spirit of prophecy no man can say sav that jesus is the christ except by the holy ghost the foundation un dation of knowledge is the spirit of prophecy the holy ghost or comforter takes the thing things of god and reveals them unto roan man and shows him things to come ile ie that sees things to come is is a prophet the prophetic spirit was nas possessed by joseph of old when he interpreted phar abar bahs dream for him and foretold the years of plenty and the y years e a r of fai famine nine ilow how very desi desirable r ab I 1 e i is the spirit that we may see what is will be tomorrow all our mistakes arise from failing to obey the of the holy spirit the speaker referred to the instance where the men reported to moses that two men were prophesying in the midst of the people saying forbid them moses replied by saying he be wished that every man might prophesy how Hoi many of israel entered the promised land only two how many of odthe the latter day saints will enter the promised land it will be in proportion as you have the spirit can see thin thins things s ahead and abide by the commandments of god the latter day religious sects bel believe eve in in an abstract holy ghost and deny modern revelation reN elation paul says the things of god are spiritually discerned there are fourteen hundred hund reil millions of people who must hear the gospel of christ and it is your duty and mine to bear it to thern them I 1 ask you who are here present today and I 1 want all who can answer to do so bold boldly I 1 y if y you u have received a testimony of the truth of this gospel have you A united besl was the response sp onse this answer from this great t multitude who know that the gospel of christ is true is is very gratifying and I 1 say that you who do know it and have received a testimony shall increase the speakers Speaker 8 remarks were of an interesting character especially when he be made the prophecy ia io garding the future progress ot the gospel in japan he related liow how he had remarked in his visits to one of the colleges in this city the presence cofone odthe the sons of japan lapan and he predicted that the time would come when not only one representative of the japanese empire would adorn our college and our church but one hundred thousand of them would join the church for when the gospel goes g 0 es to 0 that land hind they will receive it r remember member te when the time comes that these thin things s are fulfilled tha I 1 bore testimony of them unto you today reference to the great number of triumphs achieved L by representatives senta tives in almost every branch of education arid and art was made idith with the statement that when president woodruff at the dedication of the salt lake temple mads mad his bis prophecy that from that moment zion would begin to prevail in the earth he was influenced by the holy ghost the tha spirit of prophecy and his words are proven to be true after imparting many good instructions and good advice in in a edifying manner apostle taylor invoked the blessing bles sino of god on the people and concluded his remarks the choir sang and benediction was pronounced by elder J T 7 stewart |
