Show sunday services religious services were held bold at the raber tabernacle bernacle ra naele salt bait lake city sunday october 1892 commencing at 2 p m president angus 34 caboon presiding the choir sang the hymn commencing forthwith Earth with her ton ten thousand flowers bowers air with all its beams and showers prayer was offered by bishop E F sheets the choir sang the hymn blymn again we meet around the board of jesus our redeeming lord the rho priesthood of the twelfth ward oM officiated elated in the administration of the sacrament COUNSELOR JOSEPH E TAYLOR was called to address the congregation he said this people had been well instructed ted and are well informed upon the principles of our holy religion no man could teach the latter day saints the principles of the true gospel to their edification unless in by the holy ghost our elders went forth to preach the word to the nations of the me earth they might spurn their testimonies and reject their words but those who did so stood condemned of god for it there was a great difference between a man speaking according to his bis own understanding and comprehension and delivering his bin own opinions as against the declarations which were made under the inspiration of the holy ghost he had no doubt that very strong impressions were made upon those who attended the recent conference in this building and listened to the discourses delivered on that occasion by the first presidency the apostles Apo atiee and other brethren some of the subjects then dwelt upon being of para mount importance to the latter day saints he bad never been able to see e any consistency in the desire to got get through with this earth and lay jay down our bodies at an early period of our lives he had always believed that the spirit and body united could accomplish a far larger amount of good than when separated and the spirits in the spirit world were there waiting for the redemption of the body in order that they might become possessed of greater power and b be able to wield a greater degree of influence than they possibly could without the tabernacle there was more involved in the word of wisdom window the consequences were more vast than we imagined and it required the inspiration of the boly holy ghost to enable us to comprehend what was fully designed by god in giving that word through his servant the prophet unto the people we were therein called upon to preserve our tabernacles and keep them pure god designed that we should improve in the propagation of our species that our offspring physically mentally and spiritually might be in advance of the past generation the speaker said he knew of nothing today existing in the midst of the latter day saints which produced uch such a lack of confidence between man and ad man as the vexed subject of debt which was also referred to at the late conference he e earnestly counseled the people not to mortgage their homec and to be slow in making foolish ape 0 ione ions there should be a more rigid economy among us ua than had bad been practiced for many years past some 1 persons through a mis mistaken taken clin clinging clingi gini to hope mid and without making proper calculation beforehand landed thena them selves elve into sinto financial trouble and didd cultee cul tle tiep they trusted too much to soule thing turning up UD to enable them to meet their obligations s having discovered the wrong we had bad done in makin those foolish ventures venture we should put the questions to ourselves had we learned lessons lemons of wisdom by the experience per peri lence ence through which we had passed while he deprecated the practice gaja felt had bad at heart in contemplating th the prevent present condition in this regard of many men and many families famil lep he would say may to those to whom an obliges tion was waa due these are your brur brethren and exercise mercy towards them do not be too sever d do not be cruel let your bowels be filled with compassion long suffering buffering an and charity give your brother a chance to redeem himself and take no undue advantage of him let us stop today and not involve ourselves further in an fn indebtedness that man was th the more n specter respected in a community who paid his one hundred cents on the dollar he looked forward to the time in our history when we would all ah be atio at ie tu tk live according to that law which must be observed by bodfis people he referred to what was termed united order it was a mark of a serious lack of faith when a man did not pay an honest tithing and he who failed in this thia respect stood condemned before the lord even though he did not lose litis hla fellowship among his brethren more over he was not entitled to the same blessings as the man who recognized this as an a law of god given for his salvation speaking on the building of temples elder taylor exhorted the saints to 10 heed the words of those who at the late conference urged them to give freely of their substance towards the completion of the salt lake temple by april next he likewise dwelt upon the vast importance of temple work for the dead in the glorious future before the latter day saints besaw he saw naught bat triumph both on the right hand and on the left though at the present time the fight with the arch enemy might be ft a severe and continuous one an AB a united people we had to do da battle against the hosts hoste of evil spirits here among mankind it waa waw our duty to resist with all earnestness the forces arrayed against epand u and to 40 teach ach our suns none after us to tight for god for freedom for justices justice and for truth to bequeath that to them them which was waa better than all riches in conclusion the speaker prayed that the blessings blemings of god might rest reet upon this people altu the choir sang fang the anthem godbe god be merciful unto us and blew bless us jp benediction by bishop william B R preston |