| Show I AT THE 4 Elder James E e Deliver Discourse on ou the I Free ree Agency Of or Man lan EVILS OF EIGHT HOUR DAY Significance of the Title Church of Jesus Christ of Saints Saini II James Jam s B 17 1 was the tho speaker at ut the Tabernacle yesterday af nr ids his remarks Jarl with tho the tree freo agency of ot man mun and II nIl his bis right rl ht to worship God Gad according to the dictates of ot his hie own ova conscience ron President John H it Winder presided The file choir sang alIg the hymn Come Cane dearest clearest Lord descend and II lid dwell fly lly and love lovo In overt over breast Prayer was W offered by br President Richard W Voun Young of or l duke The Tho choir further sang t I Sweet Is the work my m God my lilY King ro To pre leu Thy Ihy name nalle give thanks and sing King Elder 1 James R E Talmage was the speaker Ho lIe began b by referring to tho the words found In Dr Ur Watts hymn Just sung 0 may my heart henrt In Ill tune hiM bo be found Cou Ill like Ilka harp of ot words sold Halll the tho speaker speak or er t I heartily subscribe to for tor I stand stanc before you without any uny predetermined sermon to give you J rahn ge sold this ills statement might teem peculiar ar ur to those not conversant with the tho re ro practises of ot tho the day Saints but It was nothing now to members of ot that Church for tor alt all recognized their dependence upon the Holy Spirit for guidance In their expressions from rum tine to time limo The Tho speaker alluded to the prayer of ot ered up by Elder Eiller Young and to ids hlo petition that our Heavenly only Father uther l would bless this gavor ment anti and pre this tuba country ns liS n u land of ot liberty tar for ills His children The rho law of ot liberty was one ono of or the fundamental principle of ot the tho Gospel The Tho Lord had hall extended to lUll Ills children the utmost degree of ot liberty lie He hind had given Ien them th t certain rights which none had a right lo In take talce from thorn thom The Tho principle of ot free agency played an Important pint part In the tho salvation of or the Iho ho souls pt pf men The Lard lAIrd would have hue HU Ills children do that which Is right but If tt they Insisted on an doing wrong they were wore permitted perm tied to tn io ho so acting however on an their own personal responsibility Despite this thin condition the speaker had that God Gad would woud permit nothing to in with tho the consummation of lit Ills purposes es Tho Inquisition n was waH referred to and ana the remark mido In lelo that God could i responsible lq sound Ho IIa ba be b held accountable for many other atrocities committed In III Ills name nano blase Tolmage felt that ngN Satan an was as blamed t for tor a 1 good many things till lie he was wall not responsible tar for While he believed In the devil davit his ills due line ho hI tented that t nuts many times limes he ha was tans unjustly held accountable for acts seta either committed or brought about by ourselves oUr eles Customs sold mild the Iho speaker were fast changing among ninon men Time was when the laboring classes required to week 10 IQ 12 and even 15 IG hours u II tins day 11 Now Isow however It H was Wl thought that eight aught hours was long enough that the working man should be glen given the too op tor for advancement along edu lines Imes The spirit of ot the tho thing was wmS highly commendable hut hilt the tho hI fact remained that the privileges gell thus grunted granted thorn were often abused abuK d and U In this way that which was Intended ns tee n a blessing became a n 0 curse cruse Same Home mon men do not know how bow tg iq un use n spam spare hour or two noised Instead of ot spending the tho time limo to good advantage they do things that drag them thom Into the tho mire a them theta sieves to stet slit and Iniquity Such men lIn would Ie bettor oft off of were they thoy re ro required reo to spend the time In honest honeRt toll The speaker said salt the had been charged with Incon Inconsistency In III high places pieces It had been be on n Ironically remarked that they the claimed a an n 1 veto power over oer God This statement the speaker ventured to assert wan walt t perhaps moro more truo into than that thane tho e who p undo mado It had believed for tor nH Oil In n all ages n of ot the world the tho had the thA right of ot o othe t tho the free treo agency and could accept or a r 1 eject the tho word of ot God as 1111 they saw ant v rv lit This Tills was waa their right this tills was tuns th this right of or nil all men but In rejecting tho th a word of ot nod God they told themselves liable to the consequences I r sold said tho the 7 da Saints professed l n II greet deal Tho nom a of ot their Church hurch arch was tuna In Itself Insignificant It boro bore the name of or Its ItA author nutha r and was tuna founded on His hie Gospel Go pel which tide i Paul sold nit was wl the power cover of or God unto ant u salvation A In tills this respect le It was Wn unlike o tho the denominations of or men man ninny many o of ot f which uro styled otter after tho the s and Apostles of early earls times 60 So many men y also tuillo titles were upheld that a I h bard bald hud had been led lad to t n In a n namn On OI t this point the speaker dwelt dwell for tor son some sometime o time citing ailing react many man examples bearing g og upon the subject under consideration con With all the churches organized upon t tho Iho earth not one boro bore the name of or tb the 0 Master until unfit the tho restoration of or the tho Gos Goa Gospel pel pct In latter Jotter times Mrs le Thomas Edward ren ten rendered doted dered the nolo I Know now that My M Re Rn Redeemer deemer attar after which the tho choir p sung Bang tho Hallelujah and tho th a was wua pronounced by hy Patri Patriarch arch John Smith |
