Show tabernacle SUNDAY MORNING JUNE 19 10 A M preb president brigham young having tendered the use of the tabernacle to the rev mr air vaux ebah chaplain at fort laramie he held service ac according ord ora in to the form and crier of the episcopal C church hurch dr forney rea reading ding the responses when the rev gentleman bad concluded the lessons and prayers he observed 1 I L hali ball be gratified if the choir will sing a psalm or hymi hymn n or something that you are accustomed to do before I 1 commence my ray discourse sung sung my god the thu spring of all my JOY joys by byway way of introduction mr vaux remarked al my y brethren and friends I 1 stand before you this morning a visitor to your city I 1 come not to battle your peculiar opinions or to interfere with your ordinary worship but as an humble min minister I 1 ster of jesus christ I 1 wish to preach you a plain doctrinal discourse mr air vaux preached from the following tex my doctrine shall drop as the rain my speech shall distil dastil as the dew as the small rain upon the tender herb and as the showers upon the grass because I 1 will publish the name of the lord lori deuteronomy 32 chap 2nd and and part of the 3 ad 1 verses argued that god is not a vindictive judge as ordinarily represented that the design of a wise governor is not to speak cf of puni punishments 11 hoenle that the revelations of god hold 0 out ut t to 0 u us 1 t he the light of life that revelation was designed to convey to manthe covenant conditions of a beri berl beneficent egi efi god that as a literary composition the bible is unequalled unequal led by any other work but ad milted bitted that that was probably on account of the greatness of is lie he then quoted the scrip scripture tur e belati relative v to christ his own ru mi lor lop referred to the immutability and unchong unchangeableness ea bleness of god called the attention of the congregation to several other important texts and concluded by admonishing the people to look to the lord as the tile source or of their hopes and asked the blessing of the almighty to remain with them always I 1 choir sung come ye that love the lord pres 11 C kimball rejoiced in being in the society of lle ile lie the F poke spoke upon the text go ye therefore and teach all nations baptizing them in the name of the father and of the sou and of the holy ghost teaching them to observe all things hat whatsoever bat boever I 1 have commanded vou you you yon and anil loy joy lo 10 I 1 am with ith you alway even tb P end of the world matthew 28 08 chap verses 19 and 20 A president brigham reasoned on the text if any man will do his will he be rhall know of the doctrine whether it be of god or whether 1 I a speak eak of myself lohn john 7 chap 17 verse spoke poap e of the necessity of hearken hig ing to the spirit of life ilfe if of the me disposition in man to do evil stated that that evil ia is produced in the flesh and that it was not in the spirit that people generally would rather do right ight than wrong admonished the peo people pleto pieto to cleave to that spirit which taught them to do right and to overcome iniquity said be he was not opposed to individuals in the ibe world but he was opposed to the thes siu fin itt iii and wickedness that exist cul Cil among men to me men taking the name of god in va vain i to dlab diab deception and add every other oher abomination zol zot mi nation he lie was as highly hi 9 bly gratified with one remark made by the gentleman who had addressed them viz that the preach in ing the terror of the lord can never bring mai mat kit hie kind nd to repentance alluded to the independence en ce of the will of the people and the impossibility lity of subduing it except hy by the gospel of jebus jesus christ and the power of the holy ghost treated on the nature of the aw of christ of it being calculated to preserve people in lii their organization and identity y am r m elder ezra T benson addressed the congregation from the text it Is the lords cords bug bus business to provide for his bis saints spoke of the r right i he be and all other men possess to think for themselves as is a right from god and as a right guaranteed by tl e laws of the country bore testimony to the truth of the gospel ol 01 or christ pres 11 C kimball made a few remarks and gave gaye good counsel to the saints reporter the titz doctrine DEPRAVITY at minister traveling 11 through the west in a mi mir mia conary capacity several years agoras bolding an animated theological conversation with a good old lady on whom he be had bad called in the course of which he asked she thought of the doctrine of total dep deo depravity de pravit 2 ohl oh ohi tha the replied 1 I think it a coon goon doctrine if people would only iye lye live ire up to it knickerbocker Knickerboc ker xer magazine authere ag g there are few who know how bow to bl I 1 e 1 idle and innocent by doing 6 no nothing thrig b we learo leard to do ill il |