Show Ta barnacle services elder J Z stewart officiated president of the religious Eer in the tabernacle ol oi 01 sunday tile the hymn kov farra a foundation was eang cang 0 in opening which bishop ballard offe led prayer elder chaa thomason Tho maon maton who recently returned from southern utah where he has been laboring aa as a special Y ill M 1 I A mis visionary sio isio nary spoke first lie ile gave an excellent report of his labors saying baying that had crowned tha efforts of himself anti aad co laborers in every in instance tance in the three counties they bid traveled rave led the enrollment of tin young dilons associations hall been in increased created 1902 1002 members ile ha hall had found ciany young men anen io in his travels who hid had a tt yet old did not know now it they hid bd hen been reared rd J in a utah and the gospel c cime nie to th them em as a 1 matter of course anti and they seldom beldo il sensed its true meaning until they were brought to a reckoning by the authorities the spirit Bpi of god ii working upon t the t youth of zion stirring them gleel up p to a sense of the importance of the gospel but the devil is on the alert and is id putting forth his hia most powerful efforts to overthrow tho the king kingdom dona of god and lie he loses no opportunity of prompting the he youth of zion to rebel against the authorities of the churchard Chur Chu chand inciting dg them to deeds of belfi and sin the speaker urged tho the yung 0 people to cek dil t f ir thu truth and to listen tall to all the commandments mand imand ments of god as aa given through his servant ile iia believed that today bcd ay iy the your young r men of israel should lay aside their ambitions to excel in the arts und and science i and equip teem elves with tho the truths and the love of tho the dupel in 0 o order that they may ba prep prepared ired to bear the glad tidings tri to the nations of the earth when called upon to do so for the mighty responsibility of warning all the world of cowing judgments rests rc abts upon tho the latter day saints and the assistance hii will be af eriq mahi pos f besses a testimony of the truth of i the latter day work seek to ex I 1 eel in the performance of worthy wortha and noble deeds in acts of kind ness and charity anti and whatsoever knowledge you you may desire upon any subject jeci gol will vouchsafe unto you but ble blessings sings must not be expected unes w we labor for them diligently and faithfully Ith fully equality love and union must reign in our midst however hOi vOter be fore we can expect to receive the many man y wonderful ble blessings m pro promised elder john il if fla was the next speaker ep eaker lie ile said A great many people who have embraced the gospel in foreign lands are dissatisfied when they reach here because things thing 8 are nit nat always what they expected them to b they are prone to find fault with the gospel and the authorities and it is all be because calise they have not been thoroughly I 1 converted to the gospel they are in in many inaina s boug bously y disappointed over the actions of brethren wh wha fail to live up to the tha professors ions they made I 1 while laboring as missionaries i in this thia connection thare is a great responsibility resting upon everi every latter day saint for if through ah the force of our example in faili failing rig to live the gospel some new naw recruit becomes discouraged and falls by the wayside some of f the blame may be alti ched to us it is therefore not sufficient to alone learn to preach the gospel but we mut must learn to live it il also we should try aad lid aid one another to live up ur to our professions the speaker r then alluda to the many evidences of the existence of a supreme head had and marveled that so eo many aren should profess to believe that no deity existed all material things in this life lifa are perishable hence he should not put forth such great efforts to obtain them but rather seek to lay up treasure reps in heaven elder eider jos jas A next spoke spoke ile he ex expressed presed his appreciation and endorE endorsement ement of all the previous speakers hall had uttered lUl ered there is no need of preachers at home borne discoursing to us upon the same fame subjects as they do abroad for the reason that ve ine are all ail con averted here whereas the world is not men lien are convinced of the truth of the gospel by the power which no ac cOr companies pailles it that of the holy ghost the greatest blessing that a human being beidl g cia can enjoy 13 is that of knowing g that the gott gottlieb liel is true when I 1 we embraced the gospel we assumed certain obligations obliga tiona which must be met hence constant diligence nc on our part 19 i necessary we ave have now about 1500 missionaries adriea in di derent parts of the I 1 world and we think we are doing a greit great nork but it t ii nothing coari compared pared with what wo will be called jaon to do for there aro are hundreds of millions of people upon the ilia earth to whom the tha gospel must ye be ba candied china rus 8 a portugal grece the south Ameri american fau republics aul other countries have not yet been veite visited at all 11 but before the reign of christ they will all be ba visited vis aed and via t ia gospel message message carried to then them euer eljer leishman thim called attention I 1 to the great of performing the work for tha dead god bag baa sa id thit our dead I 1 we WB cannot be baked hence tho the vital importance of complying with tin thit requirement of the gospel the choir then bang an ail anthem in ill a most inspiring manner after which patriarch alas anderson pronounced the benediction |