Show 1 I II SERVICES AT ATTHE ATTHE ATI THE TABERNACLE Late Lato President of Samoan Samo n Mission Mission Reports Work in Islands a 1 ARE 1 by l und treil tl 11 ler ter l license crl 1111 Tho The services In hum tho ruL l yes ne s afternoon wore presided Ovum by br Pro t Angus M Cannon and wore opened d by time the choir the tho o an aim anthem ail them Let the thu Mountains Shout for tor Joy The rime Invocation was WEll offered by b Elder Eldur Hamilton G O Park lOIk after which the tho choir the hymn 0 My 1 Father Rider Elder William G O Sears Scars late into president of at the time mission wan Wait limo tho speaker Ho explained that ho he had re r returned from room Samoa anti had done clone very vel little preaching In the tho Eng English helm lish tongue Hu lIu to Samoa In April 1 9 when war prevalent In its Inthe the islands l Word WOId camu conic from remus time the mis there thero It would not no bo be I prudent for tor any more Elders Iders to come i 1 there thero lit ut present Notwithstanding this thin advice President Snow decided ho he should go ho Imo 10 went soon hu Ito h arrived time the war ended und amul tho mission missionaries aries amIe were Vero permitted to resume their labors The rime war sar haul hall scattered the tho na no native live tive Saints over avel the tho Islands and It wits was to get them back to their to mc tribes Because of ot false reports re roo reports ports the lie speaker eaker and anti his companions wore veme summoned time the German governor to 10 answer to certain charges He lie WilY was n 1 i broadminded man rind and the limo Riders Elders explained their work to him he lie become became friendly and reporting to his hla government he ho made such Buch favorable comment that ho he h was wall severely censured ll for tor or that course cour e But hut the governor stilt still remains a Il friend to the Elders and has granted them many concessions The Tho American governor who presided over ovel u mu part of ot the tho group wan not so 80 friendly as os tho time German He lIe H did not n t take kindly to tho time presence of ot tho El EI Elders EIders ders dots there and desired to get Rot rid of ot them Rut But t he hue has june been removed und and the time man appointed In hits his place pineo Is moro marc friendly to the time Elders Time The speaker stated that formerly whole tribes embraced tho the Gospel anti ami tho time Elders now nom are ure using their efforts In keeping them In itt the time Church The Time Samoan children are aro Intellectual Intellectually Intel ly Iy bright There are aro about na no natives hives tives on tho timo Islands and 27 Elders Many schools have been established hell among the time people and tho the children are being taught the tho principles of virtue and righteousness Elder Sears concluded by testifying that God Gol had manifested This His mercy to him while away and that his testimony had been strengthened Time The Th Elders Eider there are aro good loyal young men mon who aro are conducting themselves In n l most honorable manner Time The next speaker was wal Elder Ider J 1 Percy Goddard who returned some time ago tram from Germany where lie hue performed a 11 mission Ho no stated that the tho people of ot Germany were vere becoming moro more favor favorably fl favorably vor ably ubly din posed towards the Elders I and the government Itself Is II grunting them many non concessions There are arc now no more macro Elders Ehlers In III the time German Gurman ml mission than were ever there before Ills His ex cx experiences I while prosecuting his imis mis labors labor were vere such It gave him mim a 11 strong testimony of the he divinity I of ot f tho time Gospel as taught by the time Elders I That young oung men will BO JO forth na as I strangers Into the world orld without purse PUts or t scrip ir n I n a testimony to thinking man ulen that th y are at nt least lenat sincere I They rimey all return with testimonies that they buoy know knoll this Is the time work vork of at God The fhe speaker thought this woo ns a n strong ovi lenee of ot Its ti divinity Rider Elder declared the tha prin primm principles of ot salvation taught by the time Lat Saints were wore the same an nl those thole taught by Christ Chilst und Ills His Apostles It Itla ItIs ItIS la Is IS time the same Mme Gospel haYing having been lIeen re vs restored reo stored to the earth with nil alt Its original grace race and power The speaker explained that the Gos Oos Gospel I pel had haul l been n committed to Adam but mis hl posterity apostatized from tram It It 11 Iti i v 1 vrn fl ei vI f t h M 1 i and the th people I nf nt hut hilt thet the could null not live high bight law and so sp they forsook God and ii I iii W mt too ir CRITIC clime among i LIl In Jews that HuH people were tilled filled with Iniquity They drew near the time Lord with their lips but their thelt hearts were acre far from rom Rim Him Although Christ was ivas wo the tho very vory being for tor whose coming they professed to 10 be looking and the time Scriptures that spoke ot of Ills His coming were among them they thoy wickedly put Him to death Although the time Gospel was established again In the earth It was OS soon noon taken away again because of at tho the wickedness s of at the time people Rut nut It was to be restored again never more to tobe tobe tobe be thrown down dOln To 10 substantiate this declaration Ile the tho speaker quoted several passages tram from roam the Bible which affirm that the Kingdom of God shall bo be set net setup up In the tho last lost days A few tell closing remarks were wore made mOllo by b Prest Angus M Cannon who began by b saying that the time Saints had been brought from tram the various nations that I they thy should not partake of at the sins of at atthe the world The Tho Isolation of ot time the Saints had imad largely linseed away however timid and many of ot the Saints were waxing cold coM and were falling Into evil ways trays The speaker to the parables of ot the thenet t thenet e enet net cast Into the tho sea the wedding feast mind the time ten virgins and affirmed that they the were analogous to the condition oo of ot i many of ot the time people today They are uro forgetting th the God who brought them hither and tile the tolls toils and sacrificeS sacrifice of ot their parents who reclaimed these bar barren ren wastes 0 lIel 1 t The Saints against Iniquity In every form Corm and It is obligatory upon uron them to be lie faithful to tho the Lord tord In nil nih things timings They The should not be troubled about time tile conduct of ot their neighbors but tut rather see ace tint they themselves tul ful fulfilled filled filed all their obligations to the Lord lArd They cannot trifle with the tIme testimony that cost coat Joseph Smith Ma his precious blood They must not trifle with Ith time tile affections of ot their wives and mind become hypocrites In the midst of ot their fan fam families Illes If It they do God will strip them and leave lene them naked d without wife or chil chih children children dren The Saints may associate with the HIP wicked but they thc should not be cor corrupted by their evil ways woys Prest Can Car Cannon Cannon Carnon non concluded by expressing the df lre that God would make the Saints worthy of at the high station they ther occupy and keep them true to their holy covenants The Tho choir sang the anthem pal e the lArd All AU Ye Yo Nations NotiOns The bene benediction diction was pronounced by bt KM Elder r E 0 a i Woolley |