| Show Ii SERVIE IN THE NE TABERNACLE Elder S 0 O F Whitney Delivered Eloquent Address on Saviors Mission GOOD G OD MUSICAL PROGRAM President ll Winder In hi Charge Char c of Service Which ns Attended by 13 I Several Hundred S People I 5 Special services commemorative ot of the birth ot of 01 the Savior were held tItle this morning moring in tho the tabernacle and at attended attended tended by several hundred people who wo enjoyed the excellent program fur furnished as nS well wel as the impressive ser sermon sermon serman mon man preached by Elder Eder Whit Whitney I ney le of or the tho council counci of or twelve Tho Time services were in charge chargo of President President dent John R B Winder and there ther were present on time the stand President Anthon AnthonH H Lund Heber J 3 Grant Grant George Ss S Richards Hyrum Hum M r Smith and ad Orson Oron F Whitney of o the council counci of twelve After ACer a n selection on the tho great organ by hi I Prof J J McClellan prayer was wa offered by Elder Eider F S 5 Richards Shine Shino on 0 O Star was then sung Buns by b Miss Edith Grant after which Prof I McClellan played Nearer My I God to Thee J John RobInson then sang the solo Nazareth rc BISHOP O 0 F WHITNEY Elder Orson F P Whitney bUn e began his imis address by bi b reading from the first chapter of oC Johns Gospel GOMpel regarding true light which every cel man which cometh into the world and the I word which was made flesh feh and anti dwelt among men immon full ful of or grace grce and truth In these thes simple though sublime words said sid Elder Whitney lne tho the beloved apostle announces the time Incarnation of or the Son of or God and amid this title is the time day set aside for or tho the celebration of or that event It I matters maters not now whether this timis is the tIme exact day da the Uie tle all ni Important fact Is I exemplified that he did come Into time tho th world and die for the time sins slims of the world ivorid I shall take tako It for granted that all al 1 present look hook upon Ullon Christ as a a the Son of or God anti and not alone as a n great grat teach teacher er Thero There mum ma be he those I may among amon us here who timo think It strange that one otto mans maims life ICo could be effectual In bringing to I Ilife life a C dead world There Ther Is no Ito more moro 1 mystery about this than that by b one mans transgression death came into the time world ivorid To mo me death Is Just as mys nis mysterious as birth and birth Just as ns mysterious as death And nd tho the fact that by b one mans transgression death deth came Into limb tho the world is Just as ns mysterious n a as that tJ t by b the vicarious work of ot one man life came to man Consider tho the conditions which led tho lImo second Personage of or the time Godhead to give his ls life le for the world The Tha Saints do not regard Adam Adamas as n a criminal as ono one who fell tel wickedly and waywardly Wo Vo believe beleve In the transgression ot or Adam Alam recalled this fall Cl being beg com corn comprehended In these words Adam fell fel that man might be b miami man mal is that ho Ito might have hao Joy By B this t s we mean that fall gave ge man miami Ills his opportunities In itt this world Previous Pevious to this they the existed In the spirit world It was wa necessary in the economy ot of God for the spirit of ot man to obtain a body bed bod It being essential to progress It I was I III necessary to have havo a body boY in order ordem to togo toI togo II go I on to perfection The Th spirit and body constitute the soul of man mn and it itis ItIs 1 1 is the soul which is redeemed in the resurrection Consequently man came cameto to earth to got get gt a body bOd and also get ex cx experience to itt fit lt him for glory glo in the I world to come comeAl All Al men who have In the hash flesh kept their first estate and their thir reward for obedience there ter was wa the op opportunity opportunity to como comma here Iere and get bodies boies All Al of the time spirits In tn the time were not so favored Lucifer and nd his hosts host were not permitted to do so but were eore cast out of or heaven and amid they now tempt man forward Adams fall fal was In reality lealy n a step Fj Adam and Eve Ee became mortal that list men might ho be born bor in time the flesh feh and ld tho the world peopled with wih mortal beings bing To Todo TOdo I do this it was WI necessary nees ar to break n a law la This was done doime by b Adam anti and Eve Ec who partook of the forbidden fruit Cult and brought sin elm and misery and wretchedness Into tho to world Notwithstanding this fall CaU of or Adam provision was made mlp to bring immortal immortality ity I to light and to place man roan where ho Ito j was before the fall fal Tho rho Savior wan wa time the person chosen to do this title work and I overcome the time loath death which canto camo through the fall fal which was wa eternal etera I banishment front from God Tho Time world wits was wn I placed in pawn by tho time fall fail fal and anti tho the I pawnbroker is death deat But God know knowing ing 11 from fromn the beginning that tat this would occur provided a away way wity wu of oC escape by the tho sacrifice of the life of or a a God who descended from Crom ills his throne of glory glo and gave his hi life to restore the time equilibrium anti and all make male it I possible for Adam Alam and nil all nl men upon whom death had passed to live livi again agin and enter antel tho thc presence prence of or God He did that for us which wo we could not do tic 0 for ourselves and he asks ak us to keep his imis laws Ins and the commandments c of or I m God promising premising us If wo we O do so that we WI shall shaH have eternal life lre in his presence CONDEMNED BY OWN ACTS CONDE NE On the tho day of or Pentecost Peter Pter told tole tho who were pricked in their hearts what they should do to be saved It Itis ItIs Itis is also als said sid that those tos who do not obey oby the tho th gospel will wi be damned which is strong language But If l after God Gd I Ihas jias has as given us tS the means insane mens of ot escape we I reject cen It it la Is I our own acts aL that damn us not God If I a man falls Cals into a pit I and cannot conot get gt out Is he lie wise to reject I I the time aid of 01 a friend frend who puts down dawn a n nIad I ladder Iad er The way wa of God Is so simple that rosily many mal reject l it because of or that fact When en Augustine was wa first ful told the requirements of or time the gospel to repent of his sins and be b baptized he lie despised it at first frt So S with Naaman when told to go and dip In Jordan Joran seven times It I was va so simple a 0 euro cure cur for tor his leprosy that ho at t first frt rejected r It I These Th s men afterwards at accepted of the tho tie hand bad of or help khey hey climbed the tOme ladder lader Shall wo we yb be self sufficient lent and reject r Jec tho the means mens provided by God Goa The Savior was a provided because man could not stat effect his Ws own salvation slaton There h Is no Ito death that wo we experience I worthy of the name It la is merely merel the tho divorce of the hody bed and spirit To save ua us the Savior be below low Ion all things that he might rise above nit nil things And Ms first words after hi his resurrection were All power Is given me mae on earth and a d in heaven At the tho conclusion of Elder Eider Whitneys address Miss Esther Davis snug sang Tho Rosary Honory after which Edith Grant sang O 0 My Father S The Tho benediction was pronounced by President Anthon H Lurid Lund r S S Sd Sm Sc d t m c S |
