Show sunday services religious services were held at the tabernacle Tabei nacle salt lake city sunday august 2nd and 1891 commencing at 2 y p m president angus M cannon presiding the choir sang the hymn commencing let zion in her beauty rise her light begins to shine prayer was offered ofle redby eby elder W C dunbar the choir sang 0 lord of hosts hoew we now invoke i thy spirit most divine the priesthood of the fourteenth ward officiated in the administration of the sacrament ELDER SAMUEL W RICHARDS ah the s first speaker he asked the sympathy of the congregation preaching the gospel I 1 is s with the elders a labor of love and only if they have the faith it and nd prayers ot of the hearers can they peak a profitably the speaker referred to the promise of the lord that the time shall come when hen the spirit shall be poured out upon all flesh and then as the prophet states state your ans eons and your daughters shall shall dream d dreams old men reams sy coyour your 31 shall visions men see your young time will certainly come but a great change must take place before it can calm come if there is a people on earth who anticipates and is prepared for the time it Is the latter day saints our dw dutilly tilly is to bring this glorious day y about and we can do it oy y comford ing to the laws of god and by following tte the guidance of the holy spirit the christian W world orld to is not prepared lot r the pouring out of the holy spirit one of 07 the results of his presence to is that there shall be prophecies but the christian world rejects prop prophets bets and inspired men declaring that they are no longer needed yet here is a a ded declaration to the effect that heaven and earth shall be brought teother tg other men shall know as they are known and me ee as aa they are seen the rejection of prophets is the rejection of the word of the almighty but it is not safe to re reject eject that word for it will gerta certainly come to pus pass when the lord makes a promise it will be fulfilled to the very letter and he will nut not ask the counsel of any man as to flament of what he has baa said aid concerning the pouring out of his spirit in the last days and the accompanying wonders we read it ifill come to pass saith the lord mark these words it shall come to pow pace are we prepared for it are we ire seeking reeking to live so go that these things oan can be brought about speaking ot of living in conformity to our ren religion gion we are required to jove the lord our god with clour all our heart and our neighbor as aa ourselves are we trying to comply with this requirement if we are not in bar mony with this god gods is law there to is left for us to do A servant erv antof of god had bad once asked the speaker it if he habitually gave the fjord ard his first and hislar st thoughts in the day this question had made a deep on his mind and he be remembered it when we wake A up in the morning our first thoughts should certainly be devoted to our heavenly father and to him our last thoughts in the evening should again revert the result of this practice would be to keep our duties always be fore us and to strengthen us in our faith thereby preparing us to successfully combat all difficulties we may have to meet everyone in the position in which he is placed would derive benefit from the habit of daily devotion and the speaker would advise ull to practice it it will tend to your glorification and to be exalted and glorified is the object of our coming upon this earth we are here not merely to spend a few years often in trying circumstances nor by chance we have a mission to perform and having performed it faithfully we shall inherit eternal glory as the children of god and heirs of otHia his glory all men are the children of god partaking of his spirit and should therefore strive to do the work which is laid out before them we must yield obedience to the laws of god as given in the gospel of jesus christ seeing then the destiny before us and placed within the reach of us all what mauner manner of lives ours bf be remember Remembert that bat he who will not conform to the law of god may one day have to hear the awful decree do depart from me 11 for god gods goda a court le is one of immutable justice an to the responsibilities of life they are great we must answer for this life which god has given us fathers and mothers for instance must answer for the children which have been entrusted to t o their care they are responsible for what they have done to bring them back to the presence of the eternal father and in a similar manner every position of lifo life in which we can enter brings with it some responsibility let us therefore ask ourselves if we are living so that we can say with christ those that thou bast given me I 1 have kept and none of them is lost when shall the time come when we will conform in everything with the thelow 1 w of god take one instance the law of keeping the sabbath god has asked us to set apart one day out of seven for his service but we perhaps think we have done well if we give him two hours yet the commandment is to do no work on that day how nany of us are doing on that day only that about which we can say ay that we are justified before god T to is certainly room for great im improvement went among us we forget so easily our duties and think perhaps that god is apt to forget too put he does not forget he who comprehends the end from the beginning is not likely to forget what he has said As aa his prom fees are sure so are also his I 1 judgments they will all be fulfilled even if centuries elapse before they come to paw pass the speaker bore a strong testimony that god has spoken in these last days through his servants he was sorry that the servants of god were not deemed worthy of living on earth among a their fel fellow meo joseph smith was innocent yet the persecution of his enemies never ceased until they shed his bis blood in the jail of carthage car thae and men mem had never repented of t that hat deed yet on the con arary the spirit of persecution seems to be at work still now I 1 testify that this work is the work of god and ami it will go onward and forward notwithstanding all persecution until it has been carried on to final victory PRESIDENT GEORGE Q CANNON then addressed the congregation the following being a synopsis of his remarks there are some rt ri fleet elections ions suggested by the remarks of brother richards which eire are proper to speak upon there has been such a flood tid tide e of infidelity sweeping over the earth that it has seemed as though it would be impossible to arrest it or stem its onward course it has been proclaimed that god has ceased to make known his will to men it has been looked upon as no longer necessary to have continuous revelations the fact that we have the bible has been deemed sufficient for the guidance of men to salvation aal from this time forward but to people who have reasoned on this point it has haa seemed that it if there ever was a necessity for revelation from god this necessity exists today there certainly never was a time when there was such a variety of opinions and views concerning salvation as there 1 to today never so many sects and parties and divisions all claiming to be right and to have the pure gospel and know the plan of salvation the human family seems to be left to grope in darkness like so many blind trying to find the path with so maty many guides all declaring that they know the right path until confusion reigns everywhere therefore if it ever was necessary to have communication muni cation with heaven that r i necessity exists now we have been compelled to reason on this point by the attacks made on us and we find nothing in the scriptures that shows that it is gods design to withhold communication whenever there has been silence between heaven and earth that was invariably produced by the wickedness of men there have been intervals when there was no communication with heaven at as for instance after the death of samuel saul sought then the witch of endor because there was no and Thum mim no man to expound the will of god but the reason for the withdrawal was wait that the people and the king had fallen so when jesus came there was no inspired man and when he appeared preceded by john the baptist it was a new thing to the world and people refused fused re to listen to him although they said as our generation is inclined to say that if they had been living in the days of the prophets they would not have persecuted them just as some people deop Is now think that if they had lived in the days of jesus and his apostles they would not have refused to believe them but lot let a man today stand up and make the statements which jesus jesuit made and he will receive the same treatment there la ii as was said a flood tide of infidelity stronger perhaps berha PS than in faither days fr for formerly god was wa believed in while the tendency now i Is not to believe in god and certainly not in a personal god I 1 in n these them valleys there la Is a people plead in ing for the old faith we h hold id that god lie is the same as he was waa and that he will bestow the same blessings now as were formerly bestowed this is a good faith in the midst of the trouble and confusion that exist if it is true that god has restored the ancient powers and gifts it would indeed be a good thing and even ven if it were not a it would be good goed to contend for ane faith of ancient times it could certainly harm nobody to say that god hears prayers that he is not deaf but that he will answer the supplications ions of the most humble of hits hia children in these days of dreary darkness and dreary ignorance concerning god it is good to be able to say that he has not deserted the human family our endeavor is to stem the great wave of unbelief it is a wave As we in the summer have a wave of heat and in the winter aldave of freezing cold so in the spiritual world there are different waves and now a wave of infidelity is sweeping keepin over the world it is goa good to stana stand firm I 1 say god lives Hebe he hears arsand and will answer our prayers the time is not far distant when the promise referred to by the previous speaker will be fulfilled but great changes must first take place we lift eu our r voices of warning that judgments are at the threshold and unless the world repent the wrath of god will certainly be poured out the speaker bore a strong and olo eloquent quent testimony to the truth of the gospel of christ he knew that it came fram fr m god there is no barrier no intervenor between god addman and man except jesus christ the humblest man or woman can go to the lorland lord and receive knowledge for hina him self or herself this is the faith we try to in the minds of men and when every everybody body is 18 guided ky by the spirit there Is no danger ot of i anybody being deluded it is gods design that all should know for themselves people are of no use except they have a per bonal knowledge of what is right and wrong and anly as far as they possess this knowledge can they become a united power for good the speaker exhorted his bearers to seek to obtain knowledge and to live so that the spirit of god might rest down ain upon them the he choir sang the anthem father let thy blessings at parting be upon us ua py benediction by bishop W B preston |