Show SUNDAY SERVICES religious services were held in the tabernacle salt lake city sunday april 1 1888 commencing at 2 p m president angus M cannon presiding the choir and congregation sang there mayall the faithful be prayer by elder Wili william tarn woodbury the choir sang how treat great the wisdom and the lovo love that filled the courts on high the th priesthood of the sixteenth ward officiated in the administration of the Sacra sacrament meat ELDER J M TANNER addressed tae congregation the habit of relying upon the taw dictates of the tooly spirit is well known among the latter day saints and when they assemble to worship they do or should entertain a feeling fedelius of prayer and a 9 desire to invoke the bIts blessings slugs of god upon the speaker who feel s that his bis aliance is upon the lord the elders who have gone on missions know that men have not been converted to this work by oratory but that they have received receive d it through the operations ot of the holy spirit that religion which is not accompanied by a spirit of prayer is onla an outward ut ward form nothing but individual knowl edge and the support of the spirit of the lord could sustain the saints under the trials they have endure 1 it is a peculiarity ot of this work that those who embrace it manifest a spirit of great humility and a willingness to receive intelligence and the instructions of the servants td of the lord they have received a spirit by which their minds are thit this they hive received the truth they may have listened to the preaching of learned men who could expound scripture in many dlf dif ferent languages and expatiate learnedly upon biblical biall cal hi history stry and yet they did not receive sat about the truth of the gospel that they derived from the testimony of latter day saint elders the he speaker related the religious experience peri ence bof of lawrence oliphant banti a celebrated cele rated english author who was fa formerly a pronounced infidel but who declared tt latin answer to prayer he had received a testimony that jesus was the son of god mr hir oliphant believed that religion was a matter of morality only but bat the lat ter day sa inte int believe bell eve that th re is a morality hi higher her anan what man can conceive it is necessary that men should pursue in order to be saved and exalted iu in the kingdom of god A knowledge of this higher morality can only be communicated to man by aal aaa inspiration through the channel of an authorized the is spread lo that christianity i ii 3 a system which does not consist ot of fixed laws lawa but is 18 so HJ broad in its foundation and scope that it will embrace all allot of the religious 11 denom iua eions of the day and even those who do bot believe in christ bt bit when we ite the idea of religion with the p ors onal being bain of barist we will see khit Carist maity is a system of laws to which the savior himself was foilb subject eject and oe liput wn sin Is irredeemable it t is co exis tent with righteousness one oae has not and could not exist without the other gin existed defoe we wore were born and in 0 the pre elsten word wp we p pame ame in sonta cp with it t and overcame over pame it but when we entered mortality we were ogain agaba brought into iati contact t sin BID which it Is nece necessary seary wp we should shoal geegge overcome in order that we may become saved paved and exalted the speaker te referred to certain words of lehi lebi a and n staged that he be had bad often read then them to infidels and scientific men who had bad ea expressed great interest in sad and admiration for or them sod and had bad felt there thera was something in those words worthy of their investigation it often happens that men in the wo id w who ho are infidel and profess no religious religions faith desire to investigate mormonism in order to acquire an understanding of f enst to the world to is indeed a mar marvelias marve veloas loua work and a won the speaker read from a discourse by lehi in which the principles of 0 good and evil joy and happiness etc are expounded it is a truth with which all are acquainted that the principles or forces of good and evil exist in every individual and are constantly at war it often happens that when persons are subjected to the greatest trials and sorrows they at the same time experience p peri ermence ence the erea greatest test joys such is the experience of many latter day saints joys of the most exalted character have accompanied trials which seemed severe in the utmost degree the saints have passed through sufferings of the most intense character and have received blessings of corresponding greatness the speaker believed that as a person draws nearer to godliness his capacity y for or an suffering e ng is increased that the toure and holy are capsule kapaole of suffering lo 10 a more intense degree than are tie the unrighteous the criminal woo wao is most b 0 steeped in crime and who firt farthest liest from divinity suffers least a the speaker referred to S tie he sq sufferings te rings of the savior in the garen of which ll it to is supposed were more mere intense and Oc cruci g than could bavel havel been experienced by any other mortal being why was ble ais su suffering Cering greater than could have been experienced by any other human being because he bad lo in morality and divinity further than any ot other her mortal had bad done so soil it may be with us through suffering we are advanced in the scale ot of be beng ng and divinity and the forces that brinz to pass our sufferings are blessings to us we can see the philosophy of these principles in a little child in which is seen a tendency to striving and aad combativeness from the first a d unless the principle of opposition existed in the child it could make no progress in intelligence if there were no opposition in the affairs of men they could not develop or progress among those races who are least ad danced in civilization and intelligence is seen the least amount of opposition and the greatest degree of content ment with their con condition and surroundings roun dings but among us competition and opposition have been developing forces which have resulted in our eur present ent state of advancement while the latter day saints have differences among themselves yet it ha has been necessary essary that opposition and affliction from the world should be brought down upon them in order that they might be developed and advant d how far willi will we be blessed and by the opposition of the world only so far as we resist it with the principles of truth and righteousness it we would realize the blessings which have been beed promised us we must learn to meet the worlds with good for evil do our elders abroad refute slander with slander it if they do they will not succeed do we retura to the world that thai which it heaps upon us if we do we will not progress it is by the exercise of love and charity towards those who oppose them that the saints will eventually subdue opposition ELDER WK WOODBURY who recently returned from a mission to the southern states addressed the congregation he realized that the world was in darkness concerning the latter day saints having had little or no information about them except from their enemies the speaker was thankful to be able to say MY that he be had bad been instrumental in proclaiming the gospel to many who bad never heard it before and in convincing a number of its truth he valued his religion now more than before he went on his bis mission jor tor he be had bad been able to contrast it with the systems of men he had bad labored mostly in alabama though he be had bad spent some time in florida ile he gave a sketch of lais his labors and bore bor p testimony to the truth of the Go Gos taught by the latter day dav saints the choir san sang the aal anthem ahem glory to god benediction by Patriarch john smith |