Show SPIRITUAL AND TEMPORAL LIFE Elder David McKenzie Treats on Gospel Principles at Sunday Services I PREST A H LUND PRESIDES A I hi els Ad Al on Ie e or of for o Sunda Sunday services nt at time the Tabernacle wore wele oer b by President An Anthon Anthen then thon H Jund The he choir sung Great BId Ehl Ehler BIder God indulge Indue m 10 humble claim er Joseph S Wells offered prayer the and the bone bene dicton dIction were made In Ill behalf ot of President John n 11 Winder Inder who erho lies tory ery 1 Ill wih with The choir Eang sang Prayer Is the souls sincere desIre Elder David McKenzIe wa Was the first speaker He said In part art In 5 ears experience In the Church oJ of Jesus Christ of o Saint Saints I hate found It no sacrifice to respond to the tho cal call of the authorities but rather a blessing usually such obedience 33 1 Is not not the best but had I the h or of a Sampson on I should not desire to wear you OU with speaking The he speaker told of the ot of the Jewish leader Nicodemus to Jesus Jesu by br night He toll told the Savior that lie ho knew ho was from Gol God or he could coul not do 0 the tho miracles which he did The fhe Savior tol told him that s lie he were born he could not hot SIC see the kingdom ot of God Nico Ico marveled and ane asked for an explanation The Savior Salor sold said lie he must be born ot of the water and tile the spirit or he could not enter tle tIle Icing dom doni of God That proves proe that there are aro two of at the fesh flesh an and ono ot of the spirit to be undergone before belore one may inherit the kingdom Two births and one Just n as real ns as the other God placed Adam anil Eve Eo II itt the Gar Garden Garden den of oC Eden but commended that they should not eat cat of tile the fruit ot of the tree treo or of the knowledge of oC good and cI evil But Adam ate 1 05 It was In Intended intended tended lie he eat cat antI ana thereby brought death Into the world worl Hu flu knew gool good and 01 evil however and had this not been so lie hc would have re remained remained forever In the same state riot not good and eI and there would have hae been no It life because there thore was 08 no death so Adam sinned that he might have hae exaltatIon and And Ir if he lot lost the the Uc life by the fan fall there a I o l Ion n made 1 1 Which he and ni all th the children o of men could re regain aln the tIm spiritual lIfe nc glory So In the theilan plan ilan of time the lie lie Lamb ciuI came forth and opened the door dool of eternal lIfe to A Adam am and nd al all his hla posterity WHAT IS LIFE ScientIfic men seek seck to descrIbe what life Is One sas life liCe II Is tIme the sum total of the functions which resist doth death but do C gain any all real roal Idea tram from this what le life Is There are two births described In the faith ot of the Saints and as n a professing Chris Christian lan tian I cannot go back ot of tle the w words of UI the Savior on thIs paint There Is Isa Isa a temporal birth and a spiritual bIrth bIrtha a temporal le life and a spIritual life No man or woman can enjoy enjoy eternal life without first obeying the 11 hues upon which that gift Is pred acted Yo We should not suter surfer our ourselves settee selves to belIeve that eternal life can ho be obtained In nn any other wn way Fifty eight years ago I food earnest earnestly to then I believed In God but not net In put light Into m my heart I had heard of Smith and te the Mormons but had pall patti no attention to them God answered m my an and before I 1 had met any Of the elders ot of this Church I had al already ready belIeved for lor mIraculously I 1 had come Into possession ot of IOle some of their literature When hen I eras s baptIzed wn told that I should know o of time the 1101 Ghost whether Joseph Smith was a prophet or not I had never nover talked ln In public and when I attend attended ed cd a testimony meeting m my gr great lire er Cr waR that I know and te tes Ir if such WM the case that the work was true and that Joseph was wasn wasa n a prophet The meeting WS n a glor gloc bus lous one the spirit of tongues and prophecy wal was there I hoped for a but could not speak I arose to mr aty feet reet thinking I would tr try and s say something I did sa say somethIng hut but not what I thought I should m my tongue was loosed a feel teel ot of rapturous JO Joy took possession or of me m fl mInd was illuminated and andI I testified to the tho things J I bath hae longed to know the power of God was as up upon on olt me and I knew that the Gospel was true an and that Joseph Smith wn was wasa n a Dr Campbel Campbell S that 3 a man ma mahe may he be mistaken In lila his opInion and 10 so led to die ele for It rather than retract but In mater matters o of fact as for Cor Instance the I assassination of Julus Julius Caesar thu th death of Napoleon or the battle of at Hunker Bunker Hi Hill these theMe are arc not matters or of opInIon but o of fact anil one cannot he bc mIstaken In these There ma lIla b be to opinion and these thee Ra an I sincere think but time the maT martyrs rs to fact sa 85 I know The he instance or of ChrIst appearing to the apostles after his resurrection was the demonstration ot of a a fact not nol an opinion the tho conver conversion sion o of Saul who hail had rel religiously per persecuted scented Godl Gods servants wa another demonstration of fact act and not opinion i were micro evidences to the senses o omen of men that UW tile could not reject anti ml It wat as time the sonic with Joseph Smith When hen hut 1 years of age he received a testimony h lie could not hot reject and although he WIS was scored scoffed at b by tho learned and antl told he was dreaming lie he the fact Ind one da day he was waR filled with Jo when the three p yore wore shown the plates or of the Book of ollon 11 by nn an angel COI lie he said ll God hal lightened his bur burden el b by others that what ho he said was true Iol Not emily the three were shown but eight more who saw aw au and handled th tl and knew tIle the sveIO to what hind had been said II Vito he promise made b by Joseph Smith Is th thee promise I by Jesus Christ that those wiio wh do the wi or of God shall know It 0 be or of God oi 01 not and time the If is just as forceful no now as I it ever sas ns The flie gift o of tile the Hol Holy Ghost wil die unless It Is 8 feel fei UIO santo same as the phys phs led body wi still die le without sustenance and for or that reason the saints should met r often In meet loge and o of lImo tho bread and aud thu emblems 0 of life and amid the of oC I life e Iet the lie saints the their and hu 1 01 Do lot not attend meetings merely to be seen hut but let u seek eek to le lIve our rel lon SO jo tIme thc light with In Ul us ma t develop to that that we hal reap an everlasting salvation The choir san sang the anthem Unfold ye Portals Everlasting ELDER A H Elder Arnold Arnole H ot of tIme the Libert Liberty stake presIdency said Bale that In 01 all he did his only wish was to glorify Gd God The remarks of Elder McKenzie 0 reminded huh him of that hymn whIch to hla mind contains time the gospel message to man luau What hat wee al witnessed In the A ot of that thai is 19 worth time the It bears Is We e have hac the gospel restored to earth nf as the ancient eta predicted we should have unc as God lied had promised The he apostasy fol followed Gol lowed time the of the Savior and 1111 lila apostles but tw the restoration folo follow ed Just 18 its lurel surely amid the angel which wal was spoken o of b John In tIme the hIlt chapter o oi Revelations has lipton of oC tIme the heavens through time the ml st bearing tIme everlasting opel to be preached to nl all naton nations s tongues and peoples never neer l again aln to be betaken taken awn The of oC tIme the go gopel gets pel Is that this I Is true and that time tho prophecy has be been n coil and that through h faith repentance baptism and tIme the r reception of the tho Holy Gho Ghost t tI I ni all might be tRed We 0 do not belIeve bellee that will be damned II as milan man oller other proe sing ChristIans tb fol time the Scripture tells U us that Jesus Jesu went to time the spirits lii In prison who hmo lied had ont onO been dis disobedient obedient antI unto lher them re ic repentance that ron an opportunity wi trill conic come for tor al all to repent and receive everlastIng I life e eTho Tho Thio choir an and joined in singIng The Tho spirit ot of God like a time he hel l ie mid and lh the benediction Tots 18 pronounced by Jo Joseph ep Ned Ington |