| Show RELIGIOUS sunday services religious services were held at the tabernacle salt lake city sunday may fth 1890 commencing at 2 p in counselor joseph E taylor presiding ding the choir and congre congregation gation ban sang 9 ibe atie hymn commencing from arom all al that dwell below the skies i let the creators Orea tora praise arise prayer by bishop orson F the choir sang ye children olour of our god ye saints dainto of latter days the priesthood of the twentieth ward officiated in the administration of the sacrament ELDER ELI H PIERCE took as his text the first two lines of the sacramental hymn ye phildren of our god etc and gave an address of upward hours duration this being his hia first appearance as a speaker in the tabernacle he referred in the outset to the practice of calling upon the chosen speakers unexpectedly hence they had bad no means of preparing a discourse beforehand and what they uttered was presumed to be dictated by the spirit of god proceeding to show why it was necessary ary for a church distinctively named after the redeemer himself the church of jesus christ of latter day saints sainte to be established in these latter days he pointed out that the christian world had bad fallen into error and gone 9 0 ne astray they had bad ignored many of the forms and formalities of the ancient church and substituted doctrines which were not in keeping with gods holy word the bible chey had dispensed with many of the offices of the an clent church discarded many of the ordinances among them revelation which was thy life of the church and that upon which de its growth gifts and blessings characteristic of the former day saints sainte had also been doue done away with as being no longer needed thereby breaking the everl everlasting asti covenant in their steal they h had instituted ceremonies awl an 1 doctrines foreign to the teachings of the for mer day saints the speaker adverted to the doctrine of damnation eternal punishment mentry by fire and brimstone erroneously taught by sectarian denoma nation which in the past hea he said had perhaps done more towards driving people to infidelity clity than any other doctrine preached by the religious world elder pierce next argued against the teaching of the doctrine of salvation at the eleventh hour and cited the case of a murderer whose so called repentance at the last moment was generally accepted by the world as a guarantee of his eternal salvation no matter what his past lifo life might have been yet while not considered fit to live among respectable mortals in this life he was deemed fit a ter confessing his sins in the prison cell or upon the scaffold to dwell with celestial beings in heaven this doctrine of repentance at the eleventh houx hour had promoted infidel ity to a an alarming extent the bible was supplemented by the book of mormon which while contradicting no bible doctrine forme strong collateral proof of the bible and was more easily comprehended by the people the latter day though few in numbers took a more active interest in looking up the genealogy of their progenitors than any other religious denomination in order that the they mi might ht officiate for the dead in geir their temples fr amples the speaker touched upon the great work which was being carried on by the elders in the mission field throng throughout k out the wide world and the gions which they were always ready and willing to bear for the gospels sake he prayed that the latter day saints would continue charitable toward all mankind and that their lives would always be devoted to the winning of souls to christ signor signer ferrario ferranto Perr Ferr ario arto sang a solo after which the choir rendered the anthem 0 be joyful 11 apostle abraham H cannon pronounced the benediction |
