Show sunday services religious Helig ious services were hold held at the tabernacle salt bait lake city sunday june 1892 commencing at 2 pm president angus M cannon presiding the choir sang the hymn beginning come come ye Sa saints IlIts no toil nor labor fear but with joy wend your way prayer was offered by elder samuel priday friday th choir sang eang jesus jeans once of humble birth now in glory comes to earth toe the sacrament was administered by the priesthood of the sixteenth ward ELDER DAVID then was called upon to address the congregation the speaker said he felt weak but jewed relied on the SYM sympathy ath y and d prayers of the he saints this expression P r was not merely a matter of forms form but it was founded on the firm assurance that blessings bles Bings would be bestow eJ in answer to fo Drayers ft it is in necessary for the saints to deal with facts rather than theories to anske baake themselves acquainted with their obligations to their creator for we w are here on this earth on a probation we are placed here that we may AV obtain an exaltation by proving ourselves worthy of it this makes ourselves it baj necessary for us to practice tice a reli religion kion W which h h ca can elevate us and help us tu to progress Po gress in every direction speaking of progress the speaker remarked that there here was no do record of savages ever having risen from a condition of eav agry ry to that of civilization by their own wn dower cower without aid from civilized race aces yet civilization exists where did it t come from if savages cannot civilize themselves unless we admit the by the almighty of the 11 iret tat progenitors human race we wa B that people who are excluded from civilization live in stagnant state the fhe inference is that without divine aid id LO 0 o progress can be made if it be true that the earliest inventions of our rac race 0 are the greatest who suggested greeted gge eted these inventions that could not have made himself is in held to 10 be a proof of the agency of a divine creator creator and that mankind could not in 0 o the first instance have civilized themselves is equally A proof of the agency of a divine instructor the latter day saints would never have ot themselves created the commonwealth raon mon wealth we see aee today without aid from om god what man could by his own wisdom have invented a religion in 10 perfect accordance with the word of t sod god our religion not dot only i to in perfect harmony with the word of wd god but it has been antagonized in the lu same manner 9 as A theft the first rot gospel these geee things the latter day 8 saints can account count for foi we say gud god sent hla him abenger messenger BB enger to preach the everlasting gospel pel and proclaim it to all men and amy carry it to all nations preparatory to we coming of the son of manthis manthia in ab what we say my and have proved that we w believe under all circumstances the skeptic may be asked how was this work brought about fanaticism is ig no explanation of it il nor is ie imposture inasmuch as thousands have ave testified stifled te that god has again spoken and this testimony has been abundantly confirmed in this day by accompanying signs as an in informer former days joseph smith was only a weak instrument how can you imagine him an impostor he placed himself in antagonism to all the world hu message contained the sime same truths the same Gosp elthe same morality n the gospel of former days how could he tell of his own learning that all the sects of the world had gone astray his statement was practically an intimation that he was at fifteen years of age in it position to correct their errors and in the organization that he was the instrument of effecting we see aee the same arrangement of A kost postles kostley po atles lem kroph ets etc as was instituted in the first fint church of christ the speaker pointed to the fact that the ct now lit is not making converts by the hundreds and the thousands as in the early days of the church are then he asked our elders low leas capable a ble than our early preachers arf if this work was the work of man there would ber be as many chances to make converts today as formerly it was not the preach preaching ling of man that had such marvelous marvelous marve ious results but the spirit of god working through them and drawing thousands into we the church this is i the only intelligible explanation the elders today are more learned but do not make more con verts this work could not have been in produced trod and maintained on the earth unless god had operated on his children so as to epa embrace brace the gospel and gather here the gospel is free to all who will CZ comply ly with the commandments of 0 god but only by the power of the almighty can they be gathered into the fold it is evident that god had a purpose in the establishment of this work and this was to prepare the world for th the e second appearance of the son of man but we do not say that this preparation is the work of the latter day saints alone god uses all people in different ways to accomplish this grand purpose but to hla his people his voice is come out of Babylo nM 1 1 just as am sure as in the days of noah noab he directed the preparation of an ark as aa a refuge for the faithful so sure in this day he raised up the prophet joseph to prepare a place of refuge from the coming destruction one of the principles of the revelation given was to prove to the world that our acts here have some bearing on oil a future state that what we sow here we shall there this to is in direct harmony with revelation some people have an idea that the limit of their obligation is to lead a moral life whereas the truth is that when god to is represented as speaking every one is under obligation to investigate the message and if found be what is claimed for it to listen and obey it the sense of obedience to the will of legitimate authority is inherent within all but we can either conform to it or rebel against it herein is mans agency the promise to is that those who will do the will of god shall know for themselves the fulfilment fulfillment of this promise is an evidence of the truth of the message learning of man the characteristic te of the gospel as aft preached by jesus our lord proved himself a true messiah by sacrificing himself and his followers did not go forth for the temporal temo oral rewards they received they knew that they had to suffer for their faithfulness to the master yet christianity took a firm hold in the early centuries notwithstanding the facts that its doctrines were obnoxious to the romans it is clear if jesus had bad been a mere man his work would have been Jn possible it was the spirit of god that was working and the result was the triumph of the church this lead the to a comparison between the primitive church and the christian churches of today christianity of today he said is no more than a picture of the first tern tem the resemblance may be there more or leas lea but it to is only A picture after all that Is the difference between christianity then and now morality alone does not constitute christianity it to is part of it but not all and a moral obligation Is i not more binding because it to is part of christianity truth to is truth wherever fou found nd the speaker then said amid he was proud to be among the latter day saints he knew the day would come when the L aird rd would reward them for their faithfulness to him he wished to be taught the will of god and be enabled to do it in order to be worthy to associate with noble beings in a celestial world it had always seemed peculiar to him how anybody could coul d believe that god had a people on earth but not a church many think that the various sects are churches but it Is i clear that the church can cannot a ot exist without divine sanction where can we find the principles that christ C preached ached he said ead except a man be born again by water and the spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of heaven beaven 12 no sect admits this except the latter cay saints sainta the speaker briefly explained what it is to be born of water and spirit viz the immersion in water for the remission of sins sine and reception of the hol holy ghost by the laying on of hands this his is the condition without which none can enter the church again who has apostles and prophets except the latter day saints sainta the names some may possibly have but where to is the power of their authority to be found further the promise was that certain miracles should follow in confirmation of the preaching of the these are among the saints and this is another testimony which none can gainsay that we are the living church of god the speaker closed by expressing the earnest wish that those who had bad been able to see this and to embrace the fu principles r Inci ples of the gospel might be faithful 1 and obtain the promises which are made to all who live according to the principles revealed the choir sang the althem ad be merciful unto auto Us ang and bless Us benediction by elder J M |