Show THE RIGHT OF succession liast last evening according to an oo no elder B H roberts of the presidency ot of the seventies delivered a lecture in the ka assembly hall under the auspices of the Y M M 1 I A the proceedings were cion conducted ducted by president joseph H felt of the associations of the salt lake stake the audience was very large the hall ball being filled el elier ler roberts selected for his subject the right of succession to the presidency of the C hurch church 11 the introductory part of the lecture was devoted to an explanation of the nature authority and duties of the priesthood the speaker quoted from the ancient scriptures and from modern revelation in support of his renunciations enunciations he then plunged into the subject proper and handled it in the most moat logios logical and convincing manner the main proposition in support of which his bis chief arguments were aimed was that at the death of joseph smith the quorum of the first presidency was temporarily destroy led and that pending its organization anew the 11 presidency residency of the church devolved to la the interim upon the quorum point of authority the council of the twelve apostles the historical fact of joseph having some time previous to his death bestowed according to his bis own deolar attona the keys and powers pertaining to this dispensation pensa tion upon that quorum coupled with the obligation on their part to build up and establish the work of god in aalthe world was referred to by the speaker elder roberts then exhibited with great clearness by historical facts quotations from the revelations and sound argument the fallacious character of the claims of sidney rigdon bigdon who wished to be appointed guardian of the church at the death of joseph gladden emmet and others who broke off from the main body finally he disposed of the claims of the so called reorganized church which assumed definite shape jn in 1860 after the lapse of sixteen years from the death of the prophet joseph josaph he took up serta seriatim tim the abe arguments used by that sect to la support of the claim of young joseph son of the prophet to the right of succession and showed their absurdity numbers of quotations from revelations relied upon by those people as aa upholding the claim of lineal right to the presidency were read and shown to be opposed to that proposition in place of sustaining DiD 9 it toward the conclusion of the lecture elder roberts roberta depicted the magnitude of the achievements of the church in which the oracles bad existed from its organization in 1880 1830 throwing into special relief the greatness ok of the work as well as toe the living it is impossible to give anything like an adequate idea of the lecture in a brief allusion like thip indeed it is unnecessary as an we understand it tobe to be the intention to publish it in full at the close chloee president woodruff delivered a brief and exceedingly lute interesting add address reap in which he be testified to the truth of the statements made by the lecturer and related a number of incidents connected with his personal experience and observation during the baying ordeal through which the church passed immediately following the martyrdom of its first president |