Show SUNDAY SERVICES elders spry and morgan Mor gaill address the saints 4 religious services were held in the tabernacle salt lake city sunday april 15 IM commencing at 2 p m president angus M cannon presiding the choir and congregation sang now let us rejoice in the day ot of salvation no longer as strangers on earth need we roam prayer by elder joseph W the choir sang sane again we meet around the board of jesus our redeeming lord the priesthood ot of the eighteenth ward officiated in the administration of the sacrament ELDER WILLIAM SPRY was called to address the congregation lie he said he left salt lake city in october 1885 to nil fill a mission to the southern states for one year tear he labored in the ministry in the state of georgia and was then assigned to the headquarters ot of the mission in chattanooga tano oga where he had been occupied up to the time of his leaving for home borne a few days since this was the first time he be had been called to address such a large congregation he could not but ponder on the great blessings blesa inga the lord had bad bestowed on his people who had gathered in obedience to his commands the almighty had bad revealed his gospel in this dispensation preparatory to christs christa Chris tB second coming coining and the elders of israel are proclaiming tais gospel gospe ito to the in inhabitants habitants of the earth they declare that the lord has again spoken to his children ca cull ildren dren and the world seem at a loss to understand these declarations cla rations because they have been given to understand that such things are done away when an asserts that mac the me heavens are again opened he be la Is scoffed at by the world but that does not make his bis statement untrue I 1 for tile the lord has again revealed his will to mankind when the lord placed place ford adam in the garden of eden re he forbade him partaking of the fruit of a certain tree it if he had bad not made known his will to adam the latter would not have transgressed in partaking of the fruit it the lord bad not told abraham what his will was abraham could not have obeyed it intelligently telli gently andin and in this dispensation the people would not understand what course to pursue except god revealed it to them in every agathe almighty bad warned his servants of great events about to transpire this was necessary mac they might understand his will when the gospel was sent to the gentiles he gave the apostles a knowledge of his design sign by revealing to them what he desired them to do but there are many pro professed jessed christians who seem to think that they have no need of guidance by the almighty they believe they th can live up to the plan of salvation without vi eloitt the light of his spirit the saints understand anderst nd that revelation is as necessary today for the guidance of mankind as it ever was and without it we would be at a loss to know the path to salvation for hundreds of years there was waa no communication with the heavens this condition having been brought about through Kii the wickedness of the people the saints understood that toe the gospel had been taken from the earth and had bad been restored through the prophet J oseph joseph smith la fulfillment fulfilment of amos prediction there bad been a famine for the word of god because the pe pe had bad rejected the light As isaiah bad said the ar arm in of the lord had bad not been snort shortened ened but the world had placed themselves beyond the reach of tile light of revelation in order to give his chil children dreu in the present dispensation an opportunity to follow him he bad again restored the plan of salvation he bad revealed his will and his kingdom was being established and would stand forever the speaker testified to the restoration ot of the gospel and exhorted the saints to keep ail the laws of god the they had ad given heed to the voice of the YG good 00 d shepherd and gathered to these valleys in obedience to his commands it was required of them to train their children in the proper faith this training was the lonn dation on which to build their future lives and if the saints were alive to their duties great blessings would be poured out upon them the speaker had great cause to rejoice rt joice in witnessing the growth of the kingdom of god on the earth and testified let titled that it would progress to ultimate victory while walle he be had bad been to in the southern states he be had gained a practical experience peri ence in the workings of the gospel ue lie bad a testimony of its truth before he left home but had bad more fully realized the practical part while min mingling Aling with the world it should be tile the aim of every young man to know what the gospel is and to manifest the of obedience unto it they could then theli be efficient preachers of righteousness whenever opportunity iwas ivas given prayed that flie blessings of the almighty m lity would rest upon the saints ang and the honest in heart everywhere A solo was rendered by miss louie M poulton ELDER JOHN MORGAN was the next speaker he felt grateful at having the privilege leZe of again meeting with the saints in a worship worshiping capacity he desired to oe be inspired by te holy ghost in speaking to the people P for rhe he realized the necessity for that inspiration without which it would be impossible for any individual to point out the path to eternal life the saints have great cause to be thankful forthe for the privilege of worshiping god with the safety they enjoy notwithstanding there were adverse circumstances the saints rejoiced in the peace with which they were blessed and the opportunities they had of learning and tes teaching ebing the principles of the gospel and felt that it if they were faithful they could lay their bodies down in peace when their mortal morial career was ended compared with the blessings of the gospel the difficulties met in mortality sank into insignificance ake brother spry and many others ethers toe speaker had bad had an experience in preaching the gospel to strangers had spent much of his bis time in what might be termed the camp but the lord had protected them while they were as strangers in a strange land under these circumstances they could com comprehend the saying of jesus that his grethren brethren a na sisters were those of the household of filth the elder in the missionary field looks with longing eyes to the cha chambers maers in the mountains and to the time when he can there mingle with the saints and be taught in the ways of the lord when he has been abroad one two or more years zion has a sweeter sound to hire him the songs of zion take on a new meaning and the words of the servants of god cause a deeper burning in his bis heart than under ordinary circumstances notwithstanding the fact that the E elders ders proclaim the same principles which were taught by christ and his apostles they find tiie the whole world arrayed against them infidel and professed christian alike presenting an almost unbroken front in opposing the truth believer and unbeliever unite in antagonizing the elders when they proclaim the principles promulgated meek and ana inis condition seemed strange in view of the fact that most of those who opposed pos edthe the elders professed to believe ithe I in the doctrines set forth in the ne new testament which contains the faith joaeph smith and the latter da Y saints taught the speaker had frequently called the attention of those who opposed him to this fact and pointed out to them that the same gospel as that taught by jesus was preached by the elders of the latter day saints that faith repentance baptism and the lay laying tug on of hands for the gift of the holy ghost were taught by them today as it was by christ and his apostles anciently As peter told those who inquired of the way to salvation so did the elders today indicating the way in which the apostles walked the holy ghost was conferred by the elders in this age in the as samp biml manner and by the same auchoi authority as did the apostles when elder morgan had bad asked men it if they persecuted the saints for preaching this gospel they told him yes because such things were done away la in twelve 3 airs experience the speaker had bad met with more opposition from professed teachers of christianity to christs doctrines than from any other source jesus was persecuted in his life fo for r teaching those principles for following his example the ancient apostles and the prophet joseph smith and others had bad been compelled io 10 lay down their lives the saints today are maligned by the enemies enemies of the truth as aa they were anciently the emigrants are scoffed at and doubtless eighteen centuries ago the pharisee drew draw his robe about him and treated similarly the followers of the humble bumble nazarene he and his disciples wire subjected to every ignominy which could be heaped upon n the abeto to and finally slain in this age they aie enshrined in the hearts of the human family and the heterodoxy of yesterday is toe orthodoxy of today in talking with a reporter in kansas city the other day elder morgan bad referred to the associated socia ted press reports of the emigrants calling them ignorant he be di erected attention to the fact that utah had no greater proportion ro portion of those who could not rean read or write toan had massachusetts if these people were as ignorant as claimed was there not something in the system that could cause such educational aliance meni by their fruits ye shall know them these are certainly good fruits let them grow where they may fraere 0 there does not net exist a people today woo as a body are as comfortably situated in a their homes as are the saints ints owning their own lands I 1 cant t speak p eak so well of those who in the e excitement ite met 1 01 I the past few days have grown reckless and have unwisely disposed of their homes there art are no BO other people so well ell clothed I 1 fed and cared tor for as are the lat ter day saints the gospel they have espoused saved them in the life before if practiced it will save cave them in this life and if continued in ID will save bave them in the life to come this is the gospel the saints teach teace any man who will honestly investigate its principles cannot but be struck with their tbell fairness and truthfulness the speaker twenty years ago came amon among g th aba I 1 keople OP e of utah a st stranger know knowing ig i g ryther nothing ao bang 0 ot them ant that they were ev everywhere e e vil spoken of and was surprised to learn that they be lieveld in the new testament he was astonished to learn that jesus was revered by them as the savior of the world and that all the doctrine they had received agreed with those ta taught tight by jesus he had bad failed to find in twenty years the man who could disprove their doctrines from alie scriptures from the alpha to the omesa omega they could be sustained by the teace teachings of the lord jesus who said a trait is the rate and narrow the way to eternal life and few there be it 11 ailien whenever Wh enover over halt half a century ago agotha the gospel was proclaimed lew few listened to it and those who taught it vre persecuted their history has its parallel la in ancient times from the time when in his infancy lancy in jesus had bad to be hidden bidden to escape the law made against him be was persecuted till he was crucified between two thieves Is it strange that joseph smith for teach ing the same principles was hounded bounded to the death his testimony is in force in all the world as is that of jesus of nazareth though the way of the saints is apparently hedged up thou ii their knees may sometimes tremble and their faces blanch yet they shall go through the waters of tribulation dry shod and god will give the victory to those who faithfully obey his laws the choir sang tue the anthem in thee 0 lord do I 1 put my trust benediction by elder ellas elias morris canaries subject to diphtheria happening into a bird store one dy day rece recently 11 aly a representative of the sayings had bad a chat with the proprietor on the subject of birds generally of canaries he said there never was a greater demind tor for these beau songsters song than there has been for the past three months the demand is greater every winter but this winter 1 beats e ats them all the cause of this he asked diphtheria he replied Is there an epidemic among them iano no not exactly you see birds in a hou house e will take almost any infectious disease which may happen to afflict the members of the houser fold and they alley die off very quickly once they are taken sick they will take scarlet fever measles almost anything like a human being they cannot be cured cared for by abe time their sickness asdis is discovered they are too far gone for aid hundreds of canaries as well as other household birds have died because of tse the prevalence of diphtheria during the winter I 1 dare say there will be many pathetic stories told shortly of the simultaneous death of children and their favorite birds and much talk ot of broken bird hearts when it is i understood that the child and the bird have had bad the same disease the pathos will vanish people who have had bad valuable songsters song and know their nature always remove them from a sick room to a distant part of the house but as a general thing the owners of songsters song understand very little about them ther other nother than that they can sing st louis globe democrat Demo arat |