| Show Discourses at the Tabernacle Yesterday in Memory of the Mar Prophet Joseph Smith 1 OI a M Connon pro lr wore T Al SIJ MM At Th Jui iW C HI I tu ana was to with tho anthem o address eom to too o Joseph Smith the i i th r 0 tho thoas M on I Church as upon this world His IOK that tho this i i it wh o It belong of iho calendar The 5 blindness may or orI i m I S this limn and his Kb d the world over a ff a prophet of f But tho people d hi tho children of faith thi Israel of cannot af take Other view till d of man his 7 They cannot afford to before him or upon he namo n Mth him In tho pantheon of ofa a in tho high nnie of their reverential ward of an almost y since hl It M UH contemplate his the aim and motives that In nun tot ancestors Tie Americans were native The town of Sharon Windsor Vermont witnessed his birth county on the day of December came ho Into tho world Ho VM but butten ten years old when his farm folk In lowly with their family of seven sons ind three daughters Joseph holm tho fourth child Into the of NOW York It In that hen modest and corner of will world that now rings with bin fame told by both evil the upon th neat drama of tho days When about midway between four tf n and fifteen years of age he re received his first miraculous glorious unspeakable able appearing of the tho Bon which has been for dvor seventy the th mo of BO many pens of t n much comment favor and unfavorable to thu Gentiles to Borne Inclined a stumbling tone U wn a period of great religious ex excitement In HIP neighborhood of Jos Josephs ephs home the little village of Man In progress were being held by ministers of various denominations It to Edw a question In his mind ns to which of all lh Christian churches was tho true Church of that ho went one morning Into tho woods near his fathers hmm to for wisdom for spiritual light of who to all men liberally not us testified James the humble prayer was more than an stored fi n brief but fierce mih tho adversary tit BOUls no nought to push him over tho brink f and thus pro tho of nods design there burst upon enraptured him In from tho power of evil M 1 him bound a pillar of light whoso the noonday HUH In ht of stood two ra aunt Pr in the form of men fine of proclaimed by tho oth r Ja be his iu loved Son announced tn yli car tho opening of L he kit dispensation No tho hould he Join All and Breeds had wandered from the war In lieu of Priesthood sat en enthroned 7 d th M n with lips their hearts 1 I w ht ot a work of bo wrought h ie Pf A w nd now iH the world aa tho the be f it w this of w In form t the flu I Ionly only l W Son t f r rho ho t Jesus the orm x rr and s K when tnt y should like open been moans nt nut to Hint t nn M last J b urd 80 unU mul of the devil it all f hl in of nil the Is not hut It U Hint U v n on Utter B 1 have h ord of mor doubt actually It and the Son to th boy Jo bright oa that in th of our the but not havu bigger If not to do than to mi In person th boy It is beneath prayer of a mer Huly dignity of tha Trinity to o So na doubters say Then It wim beneath tin dignity of the Son of Clod tu tu at all to die that live or to appear to any former opening a of the l Hui will the presume to upon the Infinite dignity by ard of human pride Did not any that the lilies of tin Held In glory that of Solomons that not u si falls to the ground without the and that u it of moru value In hid cye many He not say that where tuo or are met to In his name thero lie Is In the midst of Let us roil assured t u nut the dignity of sui li n to answer the even of u little child but on the contrary In with his his and the precedents by Him established It perfectly consistent for the Father the Him to appear to Smith and proclaim the opening of the last dispensation the dispensation of thu of times a period by the holy prophets of old In which God should gather together In one all thing In Christ things both In heaven and upon tho All the dispensations with nil their keys pow powers ers glories stretching like broken Units from the morning to the evening of time wore to bo welded Into one vast chain preparatory tory to the coming of the Son of God Tho resurrection was In the salvation of the liv living ing and dead was to bo for A millennium was to bo in a reign of n period of sane that would prepare for her destined exaltation to celestial glory The hour of Judgment nt hand the Ancient of Days to sit and the doad small great were to t nd before to for the deeds done in the body und according to their work their everlasting The salvation of A world was In the balance th winding up of the work ot re redemption ns pertaining 9 this planet won the great lisue Involved In what bettor work or what bigger work could even tho bu engaged Is not sal salvation ns us creation inept for the Gods for tho highest of nil It was not beneath their dignity to eo condescend Hut It does not follow because this hoy Joseph Smith received such an an ewer to prayer that any boy who might pray to God with a sincere and humble heart would be answered In precisely the same manner Who wn Joseph Smith Who was he In thu before he came to earth to stand at tho head of a dispensation and do a work for which doubtless ho had been ordained from before tho foundation tion of the world Abraham to whom we arc Indebted through Joseph translator of his record for the grandest glimpse we have of the pr was not the only noble and tho or organized great one among before the world was of whom the Lord ald these I will make my Abraham not the only chosen before he was born Jc spirit not the only one known tn the flesh and before he formed In and ordained by Him Hima prophet unto the nations As much a prophet that over lived was Jo ua ny and Smith predestined pre preordained he the work that ordained to hat accident U not an to pray on took him Into the grove chance finning vernal morn It was not Inflation i ln divine with g fr Kl tran K wd they n e Sf Peter Jt ti 1 tl M J M thos and John jM whom ort ln thu i nu tr h divine BU to Lu iy by and repentance of rl l tn l I vim nd eon o ana foretold by the bu And th Kl of ofed ed but not ar M H for the rn Knoch to the an lent that and fO the ion of d y the city mt wat taken Into iho heavens but Is be back to earth when Mes all In Hit glory of the tin ual will not It so of them but a to me ulterior purpose and urged on by Dig Digo nc with o A ed 2 with unprovoked out 1 n Hl of W rt tho lf H amo f e en n l far more 11 o tho of some HOU l n l r uon what till ll M hom of th Pro lh lu iti of tho i ini ni T w li power from on The Is more i ly a and n School of the A fm f i nid Twelve Apostle are chosen ami th y the Seventies nrc to Ue the world The foreign of i reecho glad of the restored au In Ian and In of the Union from which Morning like to their windows f Kiner IN HIP and than tin an Bel of the keys of and tin keys of turning On of the to the children and the of children In the nn Milan an and even Messiah Banking with the ruin of Je hovah minister In that holy place to Joseph Oliver the flint und sec nd f the Church the groat and day of the Lord by to be nigh even at the door glorious uie seen notably the jn by Joseph and Sidney a n of human destiny de depleting the of the celestial ami worlds by the sun moon and sturt of ment showing the varied requisite In resurrected souls who In herit thi heavenly giving a deeper Into tha m of et rial Justice of divine mercy n higher profounder and more sig significance to the doctrine that til men will be according to their works Yes nil are to be saved ex excepting the sons of but saved according to their merits In different degrees of glory Meantime the Prophet translates or corrects and amplifies by the spirit of revelation the Jewish res restoring many plain and precious parts taken away by uninspired translator and giving a clear Interpretation lo passages hitherto mystical and beyond comprehension Thus the stick at Judah joins with the stick of and the two become one In the hand ot nods Inspired servant He MHO lates the Hook of Abraham from rus found upon brought from the catacombs of Egypt the most exalted Ideas of the and of the universe of His deal dealIngs Ings with man In eternity us well as asIn In time are resurrected from tho sepulchres chres of the past Thus from from heaven continue to Illume the souls of the faithful und put do trine to flight Hut with deeper hatred are the depths of hell and every scheme w men and oth r tan dulse Is set on foot and In B at attempt tempt to engulf in ruin the rapidly ork of God shifts the mt 10 Missouri whither the Prophet a fugitive for h ls followed by the mala body of his people and where much that Is and painful awaits them their city of Far West founded In the ness on tho of at tho feet of an armed and mob transformed by the of the commonwealth Into under to the Mor Mormons mons or drive them from the state the slaughter of a score of in innocent and In pur of this sanguinary edict of a second Herod a modern Pharoah u tyrant In a lund of A sovereign Imbrues Its hands In the blood of Its most citizens and consents to the wholesale robbery and expatriation tion by Its executive his host of heartless minions of moi than thousand patriotic Americans whoso only crime are their political unity and their belief In modern Meantime the Prophet Is In chains n foi conscience sake con denned to death without Itla I for with his people In tho horde of who Incited by hate and cupidity are overrunning the Mormon plundering ravishing and kl Ing wherever such deeds can be done with And now that they havo mm fetters strongly guarded and andT T prisoners by Insulting their sen their humane and si e ears hearts with obscene d with sinister told to each other wrath an in of righteous of Indignant and with of God In tl name i of hinder and tongue of ic Not until an anto ler to the nations I has been gim the II l to been built have horw ot i f the Father the fertile thousand f Water w devoted ul not until n nn ln ham n erected and other Temple con greater k pon the b M Kingdom ties for th he lh that Kingdom e of hi w I for forthe ami ne w Twelve the a l and that and Tint Mm unto Its COMMEMORATION HELD Continued on inge three anti open time lie writ men released from fram ms his Whim his to beloved lie I vae u l to r realms Of r root to mid rower tile thu it it tIme of those JM J 9 nd his own it anti works proclaim ho like c a nil all i tie giant spirits stir 11 amid him to hay Ito fou f lilt Work but ne they sore vors Children at the feet of a Master his the of The world loot aPpreciate thu man for it du not C Iii Its iii ito It gold amid its VI n IL Is o to tom hIgher thu than tos m am er to time tho ino of Its u wealth or ti to th the of that Sf can be fw for what ore aro called time lo ot or man maim kinti Smiths genius el lu luo and a al tutu HUh it l r hend o Ott Mm lut n the time y na th time nn of time the He lii wai too far above the tho worldly mind nInI ed to be grec d by my thou them Am n them h but not of them in u it of o t were hot heir otten ll It I IN Bald W he heaL himself upon the breast that up imp lilg mighty secrets anti say tay Would to Clod I had some Morn on ono t o talk to tol to God l I could tell ou w I am and what I know I If I should toll you ou halt half the truth that God iod na revealed to me ice blasphemy would be U nowhere and thir nut nrc m n you who would to take tiki my say life lite Ore are some of nl hits sayings even yen to the tho who around him Smith woe not only a aol ool om either er a statesman u a philosopher ni an orator end and at the hut a m man of tion a founder ot a mm projector of universities he was wae more than these he was a a builder of temples a it restorer of t heavenly k keye ys powers anti and authorities a teacher of truth on exemplar of a Prophet 8 Bei r and one who talked with od face to face and tid delivered as did MOI I the woul and will of the th Lord to Ills people Young Yourn Was undoubtedly th man that thai has but Jo Joseph Joeeph seph smith produced it as aa far as ac man can produce werk ork acting as n His file Instrument and not only tIM did his lili own work but buth h hG projected time the work that has since sincel l been e n done clone and that will y yet t b be dorms done by this people leovie It was Young who executed but It IL wae Joseph Smith who conceived the treat westward movement that hat has resulted In tim the founding of n It tover sovereign eign Olga and In time tha thus far of an mm mid amid sun l Wilder Wilderness ness nees He lIe prophesied years prior to the tho from Illinois that time tho Saints would b ha driven West Wait and would be bc become come collie n it mighty people In the midst of the lie Mountains Ho organized nn nil exploring expedition to look out a ahome t thome home for his persecuted people In v very ry region anil h he even crossed the thi anti and started for time tho mona moun mountains but bitt WM wu recalled and returned to meet hU doom Moro More was not mint to be Joseph was needed ft as a martyr to place the lie seat seal of ci lila his precious blood upon lila his testimony for lIme tha truth anti and work ns divinely or ordained well ns as Josephs had been with himself as Its central fig hg figure ore ure Mighty paths parts had been cast to both In tIme great and sublime tragedy of thU and thought though M ins the spir spiritual spirItual ephs ephis was the yet jet hid hlat need of its temporal come com and th stepping off from the tit t m great character was as time tho cue for tho entrance of the other The ThU materialism of this age uge cannot appreciate Joseph Smith his imIs lay day IB Is yet yetto yetto spiritual shall to day clay when the temporal when the last b be above tho hO ba be first and the first last when the house of God shall bo be set cot In order and all timings things restored to their proper places It was to the world for consummation that Joseph such a Smith came caine Into tIme tho world Ito o sought of time the tree to lay the ax nt at the root to establish an tin order of o of cit and that would unity for fat the In heart lh time pure prepare but buthe advent of the Redeemer glorious not to lode do nil all that he lie was as philanthropic heart lilt his and his great and Inspired mind lilt his grand rapacious soul prompted him to and thought though he lie undertake la In that direction all that ho Ito had been sent sento did doubtless time the brim the cup of filled to to o do and time the lifted mortal mission He lIe up up W his the tho l and began n en ho Israel Irnel from the nations of sea scattered the restored time tho sword of broad and deep authority laid Gods of 1 time Church of the foundations that out Of which grow Christ be thrown shall never K that hat another people down nor given to communed to time the mart man who miho with oS that Prophet and Seer Jesus to pen Open the tha last loat on Kings extol him him and nations levere leveN 1 LI conclusion on 01 Ot Inc the tier der At George H it recited an ln ode w Dime Seer II S Goddard sang utter after which J and amid noy power r wee was called on to say a 1 V tow WOI that President Joseph Josephp I was in have addressed the ther tim would F p short time if only for a congregation unexpectedlY I am requests but very wordS Py way of to say a feW mommy file joy and ecU gIven It has always I imite had tIme op wherever part of the world I In in testimonY to thi h lift UI flY voice of ho Prophet Joseph divine whose history ha of a little Ii thIe lie to delivered by the op Orien I WhitneY brought to earth th limP r I Joseph when by time Prophet When I first road boy was but t written by t a in him it who had a certain anil on the these near he YU with Jeseph SmIth ad addressed when tito given In ir The dressed hem ImpressIon made a very deep flint A lIttle while of sIon my heard the ter wims I Ii by the thai of London Jt tb the spirit of to r city 01 w j I the Into my soul u anti re Lord had indeed |
