| Show SI ONG SERMONS AT AI T TABERNACLE presIdent Joseph F Smith ad Albert Smith Elder George The speakers ON INTERESTING SUBJECTS III CUCIt t I bl U 9 I II B tM tiro Ailment of Mor Thought I I t Since Iota Into Iho World Albe t Smith ot of tho rho thoI orse G I der apostles and I o of time IhO council were the tho k ml 11 t th Smith h F Joseph e tabernacle the speaking In recital the tho farmer by him m to the tho theof of a visit and recently c states tat Eastern ern Church and President Smith the of oC n lengthy length discourse on the tho In h that t have occurred coot Iho restoration ot tho thos thought h Both s el 76 years to with ago rapt attention by bya listened een were a r aa lit t the tho larger than lc hl John It IL presided services whIch were opened over the Mortals sInKing the hymn I by the choIr President WilliAm McLachlan Awake Stake offered the PIoneer of oC the followed by the singing ot of allon Us s Anew Our Journey Pur ant b Y the tho thes chOir FIRST Elder George Albert Smith said that since Ince meeting last Jast with the Saints who assemble for is II In the tho tabernAcle he had Inan parts ot tho coun try IrY bp tho eAstern and south louth southern frO ern states In company with Elder B BIf U If Among the tho taints saints there therele therea had found tho s same le a sect ot of peace and good will that characterize the tho lives ot of the saints at home Thou Though b h as et ct comparatively few fee have accepted the tho gospel of oC the tho Redeemer mer yet there therl are arc millions ot of honest people who are aro to know the will of the Father and the tho fel few who hove have named the name namo of Christ are but the nucleus of the ho hnata tH that will In time be brought to a knowledge ot of the truth l Eider Smith said Bahl that ho he found th the missionaries who are arc laboring In 11 th the fields visited b by hIm as inch and women ot of faith nail faithfulness U lie admired the willingness with which they made mado In order to bu bt ambassadors of light and truth as aA well as the shown by them ll III bringing their before the peo pIe The zeal was wInning the praIse ot of men who vho while not professing pro a 11 bellof bellet In the tho doctrines taught ty tr the tho day Saints are fe compelled to recognize favorably the manner in III which the Latter day Saints seek Heck W to spread pread tI a knowledge ot of the tho In which thc they believe Many doctrines taught by the tho Mor Morman man Inon people are aro receiving attention from well moaning men and nail all the speaker While not leg Ing the name they are beginning to he be belec lieve lec and practise some rome ot of the tho most vI tut precepts ot of Little by little truth Is being stamped upon the public mind Never Per had ther there been 1 a more favor rile ble time far tor the tho tit of tho than nt at th the present time rb Elder r Smith A of at I In n flU among the times Past Speakers IhAn in In Rid r are discussing doctrines that n tw few years before would havo havon 1 n fl c m heresy hersy During his vis liberal minded d persons had offered rev for the tho of halls In which f 4 Ih elders might InIGht state their views on of Some who had doubted the charity ot of the tho I t i Stints for people ot of other lions had bed been convInced by the lives of the Mormon people that the they had naught In their hearts heerts but love and good goot will for Cor mankind PRESIDENT S SMITH lr President Joseph P F Smith said that nH as It was not onn that ho had the tho op opportunity ot of meeting with the saints Faints and friends In the Tabernacle ho he thought tot It proper to S say II a few fow words on rite tho present occasion no lie felt thank thankful tul ful for the Ole most favorable report by Elder George Georgo Albert Smith from the tho eastern and southern states good tidings had boon beon received front from o f the tho quorum ot nt Apos Anns ties and presidents of oC the tho first lt council ot of seventy who w lio had visited the confer conferences In the northern north northwestern western and missions There Thero Is overt th thing ng to encourage and hu but t 1 to discourage In the progress and pros prall prosperity J ot of the people both hoth at home and I abroad If the tho world Is not growing better In n a moral sense I If peace on onearth earth Is n not t becoming moro mero apparent It mil may be safely sAIl said th the speaker that the world If la moving for Cor forward ward warl nod Its inhabitants are sing In retrospection over n period ot of 70 years President Smith saId that many lr present Fent before beCore him coin caul remember th ories and dogmas tauGht almost wl which today worn scarcely heard hear Tho They might still ho bo In ht the th fr cr ed eds of some ot of time Iho but few persons are arc found who ho teach h or them For instance three ten en nr 0 a century ago afo It was wal tauGht that the Iho canon of Scripture was WAil full that the heavens were sell sealed led wd and that that there was anI only left latt for fOI Ih of I latter i r Gods COds with III c children r n of ef the tho past This condition of oC obtained tit nt the tho tune that Joseph Smith nth wms called and begal his hilI mission I In rj the e world It proclaimed that hatt the tho fan canon on of Scripture was not full Cull and 1 that lt the hather did not disregard Ills 1118 c reo fin nn the earth Soon niter this proclamation spiritualism Ping J a and varIous other forms of ba 10 Hers began to flood the world Even tho clergy began investigation of oC the r subject and behoved moro more or 01 less In It One or of the chIef accusations made against the Saints was that tho they believed In revelation from Crom au n high When the they were about to be driven from Missouri It was said to t them that it If they IMy would forsake revo und and to believe In 01 all would ho well with them It if not they would never see Fee their prophet and lenders leaders again aln for Fal said l the tender of the tho mob their die dlo Is cast ast their doom h is sealed scaled Today 1018 the world is III ailed with rove reve revelation lation of various kind kinds President Smith said hut but there Is but ore one true source ot of revelation and that is through the chosen channel channo of the Lord Others are spurious and bogus bous no mattel matte what mA may ho bo claimed for Cor them The Tho doctrine ot of election and lion llon was II a doctrine extensively taught up to I and n Including 1 a greater greuter part of oC the Iho century the speaKer said This form Corm ot of belief taught thAt some lome went era horn to bo be and others to 0 be damned dammed and that earl earh class was wholly ly unable to alter Its respective condi condition tion Joseph Smith knocked this doe doc trine In the tho head hend when ho proclaimed this tho just doctrIne that teen men will viii be saved according to their works that no man must needs suffer sulfer to In the tho eter eler eternal nal world through the tue misdoings of at any other man and that eerie will bJ ba 8 saved ved the good works ot of hl his fellow Time fhe l Idea once so popularly received Is now almost It a athing thinG ot of the Iho past Jast The speaker said suld that ho himself In his youthful days had Imd heard preaches say lIay that infants would perish eternally unless tho thoy baptized But Dut Joseph Smith rut put It veto elo upon the Iho false and doctrine b by teaching the tho grand truth that chil children dren are aro redeemed by the blood Nood ot of the lamb and that It is 19 for them to be baptized d until the they shall have arrived nt at of accountability nn anti when whan they thoy themselves desire to 10 render to t H the attar having been taught the principle Yo We us used d to hear continued President dent Smith that In the re urr hero would ho he no male no female tom marrying or giving In marriage The Tho latter part ho he was WIS willing to admit to tob tobe b be true for the Lord hM had ordained that limn tho marriage covenant should he be en entered 1 into Inlo In mort mortality But Dut o as to the tho idea that there thelo would bl be no sex flex In the theote ote dal al world anti that all would bo merely angels he did not believe Iho doctrine Joseph Smith taught that I attar time tho resurrection the family ties and relations would he bo continued and there thero Are mun many people to In the tho world to 10 today da day not members of oC the Church who are Irm believers In the tho blessed pried pie lila The doctrine that 1 a convicted mur murdel murderer del derer r condemned tu lu die for the most atrocious crime known to man could hy by merely merel confessing II a belief In Christ Christas as the Savior of the Iho world be sent Im Into the presence ot of the III lag fled was pronounced b by President Smith to be n a damnable Every man II 11 have hae to 10 answer for his own slits and until he II Is purged from his hili he will never stand blame blameless less before the throne ot of the Almighty The Idea Is not so prevalent as formerly former ly h and aud the Iho world Is growing more roa rea sonn bIn and ami In regard to this subject The false falso doctrines enumerated and many others said eahl President Smith hAd to give wiy before the light of truth IS as revealed from on high to the ho boy prophet ot of the nineteenth century Men Ien ma may say that they de not believe bellee Mor Mormonism monism but the they thereby mako the that they db not believe In reason honesty honest and nil all that Is goo goof and pure for tor that is IB what whal Mormon Ism stand for tor I defy anyone to prove that It ever stood for tor or meant anything else elf a he said with emphasis It Is good ennobling and saving iu In It its I nature It Is the tho power of oC God Jod unto salvation In conclusIon President Smith said eald that lie he did not desire to Injure any man tat or w that he would be ear sor earry sorry ry to place In fu the tho way o of anyone 1 n fal falsehood chood or a harmful thing From rom childhood hI he had endeavored to 10 do doright right and It If ho had wronged anyone ho he would bo be glad to meet that period more than half to rela reparation ration lie He owed the world nothing Except that ho he tel felt t I a deep sense ot of pm gratitude to h his III t I friends To those who had lost Inel conn t I dente In him and his mission hl he felt t I but pity and sorrow and ho he would do them on only good lie He land hUll s seen cn the lillY day ho said eald that If IC struck he luul o again but the Spirit of Christ had changed the tho tendencies s In his nature just as that Spirit would lift nil all men out Of and rash fash fashIon Ion them after aeter the milliner manner of the Iho Son ot of God The choir sang Hang the anthem From Afar Atar Gracious lord LorL and President Ju Hugh h J Cannon or of Liberty stake pro pounced the benediction |
