Show TABE tabernacle aNACLE SERVICES I 1 maers elders C 0 card cara and J S 11 paul the speakers afternoon services were held elj in logan tabernacle sunday march 8 1890 elder J A Lei leishman of the high council presided A hymn was sung and bishop thos X smith offered pra prayer Y er the choir gang eang prest C 0 card of alberta stake was the first speaker we ve have been gathered from the w world orld that we might learn more fully of the things and and ways that pertain to eternal life I 1 often reflect on the feelings that we had when we first embraced the gospel what a joy filled our bosoms how our thoughts turned to our kindred and we desired to have them receive the same blessings i this wish was in many cases in vain for the spirit of faith failed to touch their breasts should this love grow cold because they do not see as we do no for the love of god circumscribes all none of gods children are to be forgotten all are to enjoy the fruits of CT salvation we are too much like bike our children forgetful we turn aside from the true blessings for earthly gain A good place to exercise this love is at home in our families and not allow discord to enter nor yield to anger tor or anything that breaks up the peace of home you can be of gr great benefit to each other I 1 believe vo i arf a poci ei able feeling in a neighbor neighbors neigh or ailon d one has one fault and another her adoffer differ ent one ard aad we can h each other to overcome them thi ne cle of the commandments is t to it the th siek and ahe afflic f these little thing things swe we ca c 0 band a do it and not b be seen of men if we keep the commandments every thing moves along smoothly with the work I 1 recently said a man who wanted to resign a calling no you should not do this you may be vexed now but hold bold fast and try a little harder go forward and not back in the midst of turmoil in the earth and threaten ings of war biar in the earth the part of a good shepherd is to shelter and protect the mock flock we live under a government formed under the inspiration of heaven within it are slumbering volcanoes we must spread peace on every hand band ours is not a mission of warfare we are called to preach the principles of peace though the study the arts of war we are commanded to learn all the good we can through the ministering of a thousand elders the hearts of the people have such a reputation that if our J boys go introne into one of the neighboring towns town and drink a little liquor we hear of it the take much more notice of it than of their own kind when they do wrong wrong I 1 learn thao that t apostle lyman was here at your conference and talked of fasting and prayer A full fast is twenty four hours it is the source of much spiritual strength whatever we may differ in polities politics we must keep our prejudices down so that two elders of opposite parties can go and administer to the sick together with faith in the untrammelled trammelled un power of the priesthood I 1 believe the authorities are moved upon to send these hundreds of elders into the nation for a wise wise purpose something needs to be done to allay the shouldering ing fires elder J II 11 paul in listening to the evils of war by bro card was led to think that he was not vit converted fully to the doctrines of peace we have little to be proud of in iia our nation more blood has been shed and more homec made desolate than history records of any other nation yet I 1 do not look upon war as an unalloyed evil iron is a good tonic and the iron in the form of shot and shell eliell used in the war resulted in good many men laid down their lives how many more received strength of character our nation had become sordid in its accumulation of wealth it needed checking in its headlong course in that direction if those who entered this buildt building ug today make close observation yo you 11 may notice the bar harmony mony in in construction and arrangement this shows that intelligence has been at work I 1 lay this down as a uni universal dersal law harmony in anything not reveals superior intelligence those who come from europe will say how much superior is the money system based on the number five look into nature count the number of fingers on the hand five the number of toes on the foot five examine the claws of a cat dog and all carnivorous ani animals five the horse cow and and I 1 birds L bow ficq toes or the marks of them all machinery is alike in being constructed on the principle of the lever and inclined plane all these harmonies cannot come by chance they are so marked all through nature darwin reasoned the animal creation had all sprung from one source not so they show system and order but not that the fhe large house has bas evolved from the small one nor the clock from the watch if a clock could by any means produce another clock it would be a marvel in nature the seed is just as intricate and more in its construction when placed in the earth and under favorable condition grows and in time reproduces itself by reason reasoning ng back from our actions by intelligence we must conclude that the stream cannot hei aban its fountain fouat ain and hence as aa our action is intelligent so go nature acts by intelligence in all that man does he is greater than his work in the design of the creator the body is developed by play the mind by labor I 1 talk of these thing so frequently because when our young people begin to study science they begin to become sceptical these are necessary as an antidote to atheism in connection with the study of science singing of an anthem by choir benediction by elder J E wilson |