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Show t CITRISTMAS TITE B NEWS SATURDAY DECEMBER 13 mnr ChurcK Deptrfmenl Missionary System as Evidence of Gospel Truth Sermons Delivered in the Salt Lake Tabernacle , Sunday, December 13, 1931, by President Heber J. Grant and President Wilford A. Beesley Of the Salt Lake Stake. Prest. Heber J. Grant (Continued From Pift On.) leaf They are young men and young women, as a rule, who are prayerf 1, who seek every day of their l.ves for the guidance of the Spirit of the Lora, in humble prayer; and what U theto testimony that they bring home utf That hundreds of people, thousands and tens of thousands, and now even hundreds of thousands, in answer to earnest, prayerful supreceived plication to Uod, have Lord that a testimony from the Mormonism.' called this Ooepcl, is in very deed and of a fact the Uospei of Jesus Christ, the plan of life and salvation. In the early history of the wag the opposition Church the frightful. People who joined Church were looked Mormon down upon; their own families, in many cases, rejected them, cast them out as evil, because this Church. they had joined tbo frulia of fho And what are The oxact Christ? Joaua of Gospel world would opposite of what the a wicked from come to except people. I have repeated It time and time again, because I have been In the Insurance business now for a young slaty years, since I wewas have had a boy of fifteen, that then the great rate lower death life Insurance companies. We have a higher birth ride; we have a lower insanity rate; we have a lower criminal rate; we have a lower divorce rate than has the country at large. All our vital statistics reveal conditions that ought to corn from a good people, and we dont have those things that vital statistics show from a bad people. 1 say again, as I have often said, that o my mind our missionary system la the atrongist evhh nee 01 the divinity of this woilL It would destroy the fhurch in a few years. If this gospel wore praynot true, this sending of our men and erful. Ood fearing young world- If young womon into the it would tho world had the truth capture them, and It would not to tako more than about ten yearn What la tbs destroy theof Church. the missionaries when testimony they cornel horn and boaf thMr testimonies? That never In their lives have they ever so thoroughly while In the misenjoyed life as seem to get so neai sion field. They to the Lord In answer to Iholr so wonderfully prayers, and to bs blessed of the Lord that they it the most profitable and splendid experience of their whole la tne will gather Information world as yon go through It without trying to learn ths lessons In school at your age. 1 want to call you oa a mission. And hs called him on a mission, when ho returned from that mission, he wts a man among man: and when bs passed away. John Nicholson, who was ths editor of ths Dewnrt New and whs had labored with him in the British Isles, wrote an article saying that in proclaiming this gospel hs was ths peer of any maa who walked the British Isle. . Bible is Best literature. Think of It, a young man of that kind, with no opportunity! Unhe didgrammatically speaking, about nt know nothing nohow nobody. Bat hs went over there and got acquainted with ths language of the Bible, which is ths finest literary language a man cam get acquainted with. I was told by one of tho elders who labored with Ton can ask him to talk him: fifteen minutes: you can ask him to talk a naif hour, you can ask him to talk an hour; you can ask him to talk an hour and a half, and he will do It. And he will do it intelligently, and he will argue upon the principles of the gnapol in a splendid wvy When hs returned I was the Prest. Wilford A. Beesley In this Churoii a member whs functions no oao holding tho Priesthood may expect surprises at any Urn, and ouch Is the cession to myself. Ws today with had anticipated that President Grant, who has honored us ia atwould tending our conference, bo ths speaker of tho afternoon service, but ho has requested that I occupy a few momenta of ths time procoding him. I pray that I by ths Holy fHr-t- t might bo guided while that I stand in ths short sf before you ia this conference ths Salt Lake Stake of Eton. As you are aware, ths morning session of our conference was necessarily postponed, dus to the funeral services of President Charles W. NIbley. Therefore this session our becomes ths opening one of conference. Ws regret ths smell attendance of people thla afternoon, bet rejoice in the fact that nint tho morning meeting held in connection with the service for President NtbJey eras well attended, and that there was present at that service a rUh outpouring of ths Holy Spirit of God The heart of ths people who were there press nt were touched by that influern, and by the tributes of love and respect which were paid to that Conference Held At Gevle, Sweden 'T' p gi live. I'ralMS Prest. Beesley. Could such an experience come Into the lives of young people, it out pro laiming they ware going vrnith Is not true 1 w du Id like to pay a compline l to the brother who has just addressed -(-mi, the president fin-of of the your stake He was onemissionaries or all my floe est over the when I was presiding miaa'on. lie wai working Kuro in the lxndon conference. and delivered soins of the nioit logic! nd splendid sermon on lh different principle I of the go pel, of any elder that had. have known oi a number of young men who have gone into the tttUwion field whom you would hardly expect to make any great record at nil. Uiif of my own brother started out a a youngster, freighting to 1ioche. Nevada, a young man when about about eighteen. Finally cam h twenty or twenty-on- e homo and bought a little faru, died in childmarried, and hi wife no opportune birth. tie had had He decideducation. for all at tia am not going to grow up In ed to went the old So he Ignorance' I mvrwity of Deseret, down In tb sdobe building. atill standing where I went to school as a ltttle child of six years. He read an advertisement in ths paper, that at a certain address they wanted a boy to mdk cows and do chores for hi board and lodging while attending school. Although a grown man. and a widower, he decided to go to with school. He was in classes young boys. It is hard for a man of that ags to grasp thing Do and behold, it was President Joseph F. Smith who hired him. After he had been in ths school a few month studying hard. Brother Smith said to him: Gyrgo, you have no business at your age. Is go Into ths classes here stndylng with these young boys. What you want Is a mission, proclaiming ths gospel of Jesus Christ under ths Inspiration of ths Lord. Ton will grow faster, you will com hometo a man Great among man. If yon go Britain on a mission for a coupls Bible you of years, and read ths tli. y grn lan 1 er 1 fi listen-ito the message which these iders from Afurra were bearing unto the people bled HU heart was touched, and he fell the influence of the Spirit of the Iord. It toM him that the which three young men iitowMuge were bearing was true, and the meeting he sought Idem for further information regurda.g this church, and iafer oa wa baptised From this humble beginning John H Winder arose to be a m nuber of the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Chri t of LaHer dsy Hamle a paraiie: rtory to th- - life of I'reentent Nibjt) 8o we mlgiU go on and entntr-at- e Hundred ot similar tusee where young mm have acrep ed ths gowpel in foreign lan is, ,4 commenced a destiny which has establish' d them high in the Church 01 ftuniiAtuin unto which they surgnuii loctforoia U till It was the prophetIrvylsi). of Urn. s who said that In ihe Ust oles would he mountain of ths Lord house be established In the tops of the mountains and ail on should f.ow unto it, for hit, out of y.u n should forth the law an(J of the Jord from Jerusati, word lem So in thT in the fulfllm.confortnry nt of this prophwhy. haw those missionaries gone out into the world and declartd thu ( . Je -- con-ald- President John R. Winder. As a mere boy hs was sweeping out ths grocery store floor where he was employed, when psrehaaos that Up of pa morning hs picked up from rubbish the that hs was per sweeping out, and found a partly torn gospel tract of ths Church sf Jesus Chrtik of IaUcr-te- y Saints. He was Interested in the turns re whir this scrap sf paper bore. Hs neted ths place where ths elders sf this Church were holding gospel meetings, end as ths next time that a meting was railed this young boy betook himself ts ths place of meeting. It was In an upstairs room over a public house. Timid, bs did sot that be shoul-enter the room hut hs stood in the stairway leading to the room where the Mormon people had congregated, sad there hs - i . ( Tho larvcwt IktiM las tho Bam-dis- h mlastim Km Ha headquarter at Govle where a wed tltesdef otm-fok ore was hold. Sept The Kldera to the picture, left to f. Young-herright, a Landing are: Aset Andrew W. Kmfst Kngntrom, I Arson, Albert O. QuM, . Arthur Johnson, Floyd H. hteM; seated W. fbwWvt. KHc A. L flideos N. HuHrmcrom, Mission PieOWel sad F. A. Frwa-aon- i. It woo hi die city oi Gevle where the restored Gospel was first to Hwedra, by KJdrt John preschrd A. PofHgre a missionary from In 1'tah, June. I AM). His first convert was Ms owa brother, Fetor President of the Tooele tttake and splendid men. who had devoted as entirr life to tne service of the Lord Great MMniirf Her few It but brings !o our attention r.f this great h accomplishments Mitt'r-ii.iwork, known as of by w hh h the hcaxi and tens of thousands thousand in of people have bees re a hed ail parts of the world. through ths great missionary service instituted in this Church From ths very foundation and organisation of the Church, mbiaJonjujr work has beta an outstanding feature in connection with it. No sooner had the tburh been organised, in the month of April. lilt, than an intsoss desire took hold of tho who constituted its membership ami oi gunixauon to spread abroad their faith and testimony in the great restoration of the gosiW of Jesus Christ So Immediately thoa called forth into various parts of the adjoining states and nearby settlements. to proiluuu the m.ujtgf' of this goejn-I- , and from that day until this there hss constantly been a stream of men endowed with power from on high, go ng forth unto the nations of the e Lrth to declare this gospel, and peoples hearts have touched by their testimonies and th many have hearkened unto which they bore. As a result tho Church has grown and de. vrlopcd. and from ail nations have people gathered to the body of thea In Church, there to be untfh-great and powerful church organization and membership. Much a one was tho late President Niblcy, who as a small boy In far off Scotland, with his parents became attached ts this Church, and It has been an inspiration to our youth to note the progress and ths development that haa come into the lives of many of these poor who boys of bumble parentage. have thus accepted the gowpel ot Christ. Mods Toro Tract I am- reminded that soother counselor la the Presidency of this was attracted to likewise Church systhe gospel by the missionary same tem of the Church. In the someunder and British F.inptre. the late what similar ondltion re ll-lll- g, took him out Un. re and tesi-- d w I One out. him day I aid not feeling, well Kid up and give .in hour ami a half gospel sermon " and he d.) Jle a it. and did It wt aily killed himself white out rabbitr u, Urothi hunting, and as Nicholson wrote that he w.is a peer among the better rtaas of men Ixt of people think peer is ths word oter" superior; 1 talked with some an equal. of his companions that fell In love with him because of lit into nrsach tegrity and his capacity of the Gospel under the inspiration the Spirit of Iks Lord. 1 don't a ever he had think preached sermon of ten minutes before h Cuswss called out to preach this ps!. hut he grew under the light snd the inspiration of the Spirit of 1 ' 11 1 the Irving God TclU of (MpC (Xaituau I remember having a conversation with a man who had traveled around the world a number of times. Captain John (Vdman, and I have told that time and1 again I shall not be surprised if get another anon) moos Utter after 'For heavens uke this, sayingget a new atory.' Captain Codman summer some tried forty odd hu resorts for the benefit of sea a retired He was health of a number owned had captain, salting vessels before the dava of r end these aborts He tried steam. found that hs had better health In Idaho, than anyHod Bpring where else, so he bought a litIt so tle home la Soda Mprings. for three years mv happened thatwith indigestion, end wife suffered hs spent ths time at Soda Springs as she could possibly just as early get there In the spring and remained until the cold weather I got well acdrove her out. in Captain Codman:with quainted with fACt, I had become acquainted Incam Ho ago. him long years to Zion Having Bank ono dav. I was tho atolatani cashier. Brother ho Webber was tho cashier, but was nevear camo to tho bank.1 I was the ot only tho caahler. but re- janitor, tho paying teller, the (Pleaso Turn to Page Seven.) . IsRof OhftMM, A. I'oeqrm. y w'-n- t ' IMSIfMf. lull 111 liiV i, s ji i ,t ' p It l trikinx thu.g In lon nrci.on with till. sr. t miionar syMt in, that ihov who receive th whs luarken unto th Word of these elder and wh enter the waters of baptiam In 01 lo ri.mpjy Wl'h the cmm.ud merit, of the Lord, tn.xrt.oty hxv x burning desire within their hexri to here to the body of th Ohurvh xml xltfn themeetve. reft ltx membership here xnd pxrtxk of the blewinx, xnd those thin, that ore obtained where the Salnl are Bothered In a body, euch an th ble.wuriea that come from acre at 'empire, and upon attend e bold here u'h '" and alt other farllittea that todai tend the Satnu here at home at So the Mormon thurch la earn In on this arrat work of the Ul ter days, ushered In throuah mlnlnlrstion of the father and th re Son themselves appearln m o.. son unto the founder and fronn. of thia Church. Joseph hmith HtoUjr of Valera We have experienced la the two years, in thla Charoh. a dxi lesson in the study of values. arm, and women who thoucht them elv.e rich in worldly ooda couple of yearn ao. find them selves today. In many cases, wire out their lands, wtih not mac value to their tattle and to thel with their sec unties anruni ahrrp. en in value until they are nt worth, perhaps, twenty per c.nt w hat they were two years am wond rin what Uli y mixbt 4 next order to rerun p inetr es and to es'ablish then selves These conditions hv co-upon them, not through any an ot th.ir osn. in mvny rases bt throunh outside ircuinstancea ova which they have h.l no control man ran I place the value upon h home today, nor up .n other of h mat. nil The man placespoemsaiou the va.ue upon It. oUu f, worth what It will " nothin more , ( dr - 111 ain 1 So mss bein, 10 a..., i,r wir. about all these material that perhaps he has been spending a lifetime in accomulatin ' work in for. and arter ia a lot of aucnifn am .. in the They of the Master Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, whire moth and ruat doth corrupt, snd where thieve! break lhrnuh and sti si Ttul lay up for yourselves treasure in heaven. where helth. moth nor rust doth vorrupt. and thieves do where not br,. throuah nor ateal Thtmrs Worth while. Th sinlf icance of thia counsel and advice and sdliior.ltion of th, (flense Turn to KlhL ne-k- in sob fae |
