Show AT thel tabernacle OGDEN CITY THE REV KEV J A BROWN DELIVERS AN interesting DISCOURSE TO A LARGE AUDIENCE july 18 ISM editor deseret news newa there waa vas a very large congregation at the tabernacle in this city this afternoon who came together to hear a se sermon rmon from W V J N X BROWN a methodist minister from roches rochester ter N Y on the stand were the president of the stake members of the high council home missionaries bishops and other leading elders of the church the music was furnished by theeb cellena tabernacle choir under the efficient leadership of elder charles W hinchcliff elder Mc Larens boyle presided at the organ the assembly was called to order by ELDER FRANCIS A BROWN brother of the reverend speaker the choir then sang sweet is the work my god my king to praise thy name give thanks and sing the opening prayer was offered by the rev kev G E jayne who acknowledged gratitude for all blessings and mercies received from the bountiful giver of all good and invoked the continuation of his blessings not only upon tile the present assembly but people of all classes regardless oi of any differences in their faith and modes of wor shipping god he especially pleaded for more light more truth and the grace ot of god godio to guide them in the dav of salvation the petitions were responded to 10 bythe by the congregation as fier fer they were offered the choir then laoj how tweet communion is oi on earth the sacrament was administered by the the second ward rev bev mr bro brown n enen addressed toe the congregation we he read the ath A th chapter of Kevel aifons selecting as his bis text the ath and part of the verses after speaking of the hundred and forty four thousand thou who hod been sealed out of the twelve tribes of israel who had gone up through grat gnat tribulation and had made their calling and election sure he be said these were men of like passions unto us who now bow live they had been tried tempted and found faithful they had been purified as by fire indeed some of them had been cast into Air furnaces naces heated sevenfold bev enfold hotter than ord ordinary illary eli es can make inake them but they were true to their integrity the grace of god sustained them and the tame same power will sustain the people of god who now have to pass through deep sorrow and suffer deprivation forthe for the gospels sake but the speaker sald said it was not through tue per personal bonal eions afflictions aud and tortures viat they won such that they were now near the throne of god and that their robes had become so white while but it was by vir virtue tue of the atonement and the blood of the lamb which was s shed hed for the redemption of all mankind he the preacher referred at length to the great multitude which ro co man can number of all nations and kindreds and people etc and said these would comprise the people of the whole human race of every color and clime who fear god although their faith and mode of worship may differ biere indeed he questioned it if we should alt all be of one faith and opinion in heaven but we shall all be there in speaking of the mode by which these worthies bad attained to exaltation he be held that faith alone in the atoning blood af of christ was sufficient in support of this view he said it it true there are opinions entertained by various classes of christians but there is nothing trustworthy on this subject but THUS SAITH THE LORD and the lord had said thail he so loved the world that he pave gave his only begotten son etc that whosoever believes on him shall have everlasting g life this was all sufficient he con the speaker said be had often been asked if we thought we should know each other in the resurrection resurrect chiou iou here he replied that he did not think we be bisger bigger fools there than we are here hence our knowledge would br be con sinuous abat it woud increase and endure forever he would know anti and enjoy the society of his mottier mot fier hit bit father and all his kindred he believed that the old relationships of the family will abide but that no neto family rela tiou ships n will be formed he believed that in the resurrection resurrecT loi men and women would live an active lite and would inci ease forever in the know of god and him aud his son jesus he believed we will continue to advance in the SCIENCE OF HEAVENLY THINGS that our visual powers will be stronger clearer and more penetrating so ao much so that we can gaze into the distant worlds other creations of god aud and see aud and to a considerable degree compre comprehend helid their magnitude and their glory he also bell believed eVed that our sense af f heaving hearing will become more acute that we can readily hear bear the sounds at as they come floating throng through space from froio distant spheres he be believed deved that in heaven there will be neither imarri marriage ag e nor giving in marriage but that ai all I 1 will vill become as the angels of god in purity chastity etc hence yet strange str an e to say the reverend speaker declared ar e d that the people eople there would not be robed he ae believed the white robes in which the saints who came up tip through great tribu tribulation kation were said to be clothed were NOT LITERAL ROBES KOBES but that they were figures representing their great moral purity righteousness and holiness as they will shine in the divine image and Dright brightness ness of the son of god he did not believe they will need any hooes to clothe them in that bright world if f such were the fact we must belaev believe the inhabitants of the heavenly worlds are in a state of nudity t which we cannot accept as truth he al 1 exhorted the people to be like the three hebrew cebre w children and daniel and his bis companions and the ancient who refused to bow to the mandates and laws of preferred to obey the behests behesta of the god of heaven and declared that as god protected them in valcient times so he will do in these days and if we are faithful to him he will GAIE GIVE US THE 1 I HE VICTORY his discourse which contained some excellent points occupied a little more than loan an hour and was listened to with respectful attention by the audience after an si athern by the choir the rev gentleman pronounced benediction he ne veronce oce referred to the pecullar peculiar faith of the mormons cormons Mor mons or any other class of religionists religion ats but c confined 1 ed himself entirely to what he believed to be the gospel and the people eople generally believed him to be a in his faith and his utterances mr brown is a stout well built man about 5 feet 6 inches in height fair complexion clean shaved hair short and complexly white beine bein ff bleached bleached bv the snows and suns of 68 leavar he rais is a man of education culture good address an tasy easy speaker and appears to be liberal in his r religious e ii 19 I 1 views he is courteous he was a soldier in ia the union army darting darine the war ef the rebellion he is azember of the G fsr and en route ouse for san francisco to attend the grand frand encampment he is iv a guest of his brother frances A B browa ron whom he muen resembles on monday night he will lecture in the union opera house on the battle of gettysburg all day the beat has been intense almost suffocating toward sundown the sky became overcast with clouds the vivid forked and sheet lightning flashed across the heavens LOUD ROARED and continued to do so for several hours at length the dark clouds burst and a copious shower of welcome rain descended cooled the atmosphere moist med the parched earth and revived some Oro drooping vegetation alie th j air became lighter the people breathed more freily frei ly aud and felt grat etui elui for the change A beautiful breeze is blowing and we feel comparatively comforts ble |