| Show fitall I 1 KOM MONDAYs josd YS DAILY t ally APRIL 30 1883 AT THE GERMAN MEETING excellent discourse on prayer and union by dr isaacson dr isaacson addressed the german saints at the city hall yesterday morning at 10 lie he took as the basis y of his remarks the ath verse of the ath chapter of the gospel according to st matthew ask and it shall be given unto you seek and ye shall find knock and it shall be opened unto you the speaker delivered an excellent discourse upon the subject of prayer depicting the spirit in which petitions to the creator should be offered up by way of illustrating the great truth that we should be willing to submit to the will of our heavenly father in the matter mattei of having havin our prayers answered he related an anecdote of lord shaftsbury shaftesbury Shafts bury who upon a certain occasion had arranged to give a grand Oban banquet at his country seat A large company of guests had been invited comprising many members of the nobility lord shaftsbury shaftesbury Shafts bury was extremely solicitous regarding the success of the banquet which he designed should be a notable social event so bo wrought up was he upon the subject that he prayed earnestly featner forthe occasion but despite his prayers a severe storm occurred on the day fixed for the banquet aud and the project of giving it had to 10 be abandoned lor 1 1 I salisbury was greatly disappointed and was disposed to mu kumur mur because providence had not granted his bis prayer for fine weather he learned later however that the train which the guests whom lie he had invited would have been compelled to travel on was wrecked hat eighty passengers on board lost their lives and that many of those who had bad designed to attend the banquet must mast also have been killed he then thanked god for the storm the speaker also dwelt upon the subject of the spirit of union which characterized all who obeyed the gospel in sincerity while he was a stranger here after the manner ot of the flesh he felt a bond of union and fraternity with every latter day saint whom he met he exhorted the saints to become like the links of a chain each united with its fellow his discourse was eloquent and powerful and many of those who listened to it were affected to tears |
