Show sunday services services in the box elder stake tabernacle august at 2 p m were presided over by president oleen iOleen K stohl singing by the choir ye gentile nations cease your strife invocation by elder lars singing beho behold ld the mount ot of olives rend the sacrament was administered by the bishopric ot of therond the the Second cond war ward d elder alfred kelly read a chapter from the bible the choir sang great god to thee abee my evening song elder wallace burt who lately returned from the sandwich islands addressed the saints while away he had learned that there is a great difference between our people and the people of the world and realized that there are none betterin better on the face of the earth today than the latter day saints he related briefly his experience per peri ence lence among the people of the islands which extended even to the leper colony and bore a testimony to the truthfulness of 0 the gospel speaking ing a short time in the tongue elder george woolley of salt lake city was the next speaker hi he spoke on oa the subject of obedience order which Is said to be the first law of heaven is simply the result of obedience showed how the stars and all matter contained in the universe move in obedience c e to the laws of the creator when adam and eve were placed in the garden of eden they disobeyed the commandments of the lord in partaking of the forbidden fruit and were driven out of the garden still given them and adam offered up sacrifice although he did not know why save that the lord commanded commande d him the speaker also cited the case of abraham offering his son isaac in obedience to the command of the lord an and told told of the blessings enjoyed by abraham as a result of that thai obedience he showed also bow joshua through obedience to the lord led the people into the promised land citing the tall fall of as one instance of the result of obedience when the lord ordered king kine saul through the prophet samuel to destroy the he be disobeyed the lord lora he captured the king and the peoples cattle and sheep hut but was told that obedience Is better than sacrifice in several respects there is a tendency among the people today to disobey the laws ot of the lord they desecrate the sabbath by seeking places of 0 amusement instead ot of assembling in the congregations of the saints he also showed t that disregard of counsel in regard to dances has been almost universal and that tm tendency ot of the dance and dance hall ball is not to develop 1 high juo morals rali and warned the I 1 saints that disobedience of the latr lai ot of god will shut them out from al all I 1 11 clatur claim to lils his blessings the the anthem great f Is the lord f prayer by elder L P nelsen 5 |