Show AN ERROR CORRECTED AT the services in the I 1 provo tabernacle on sunday june one of the speakers referring to the missionary work of the elders of the church made the following remarks as reported in the enquirer ot of that city toe the time is short when the people of the world will have an opportunity to hear the gospel president woodruff had bad informed the speaker that a short time after the salt lake temple is dedicated the missionaries would be called home it becomes our duty to let our prayers ascend to our eternal father that the gospel may be embraced by the honest the pure and the true throughout the world before the time lime comes when there will be a famine for the word of god the dedication of the salt lake temple will not only be a ceremony setting apart a fine building for the performance of ordinances ordinance of the gospel but it will commence comac nee a new epoch in the history of the saints these remarks have occasioned some comments from the press and the enquirer published them with big headings announcing the time near at hand when missionaries will so BO longer be sent to the world with the gasrel 1 president Woodruff Ps Ps attention having been called to the matter he addressed the following communication to the enquirer which was published in that paper on june editor daily enquirer dear sin in the report of the provo tabernacle scle service sas contained in your paper on the dinst one of the speakers speaker sis is reported as follows follone fol lowE the time is in short when the people of the world will have an opportunity to hear bear the gospel president woodruff had informed the speaker that a short hort time after the salt lake temple is dedicated the missionaries would be called home 22 I 1 beg leave to inform your readers that this language in no wise wine reflects reflect my mind with the preaching of the gospel to the inhabitants of the earth but that on the contrary it is my belief that our labors labon will continue la in this thin direction and that too with greater energy and power until the comi coming of the son of man respectfully your brother W SALT LAKE CITY june this thie will be sufficient for the latter day saints regarding president wood ruffs buffs views on this subject we have no idea that the speaker intentionally misrepresented the president or that the enquirer had any other motive than to report correctly what was said at the services but there has evidently been a mistake and ud it is proper aba that the error should be corrected m there have been rumors at different times that the foreign missions minions were to be up and the elders with drawn from abroad also that some new and startling occurrences would mark certain times and events in the history of the church these reports have bave usually turned out to be incorrect the church has continued the work of the ministry and the even tenor of its way without any sudden revolutions or convulsions or violent changes of policy or purpose purple remarks made by its leading authorities are some tames mil mis misapprehended apprehended and enthusiastic speakers ep eakers occasionally go to extremes and attach added importance and significance to simple expressions of opinion but great care should be taken lest even without intention the words of our leaders be misconstrued and the people thereby be led astray tray that the gospel is to be preached first to the geu genales ules and then to the jews to is plainly declared in the rave revelations to the church also that the times of the Gen gentiles are about to be fulfilled and that the falness of the gentiles will come in but that the elders are to continue their efforts to warn and save mankind until the coming of the son of man to is also in accordance with holy writ and president woodruffs statement on this is in both positive and timely the salt lake temple we hope and expect will be completed at the time RP appointed POInted and be duly dedicated to the lord it will be one more monument to the faith and diligence of the lat ter day saints it will be another means of I 1 linking the living to the dead and of welding the great chain of the priesthood chood which will eventually bind the powers of evil it will bring increase of blessing and influence for good and hasten the progress of the work 0 of f redemption but we do not know that it will commence any new epoch in the history of the saints nor bring about any sudden or remarkable change affecting either the church ot or the world on these theme and kindred matters every man is entitled to his own opinions but they should be given in that light and the utmost care should be taken not to state them as the views view of others or to add to their importance by stamping them with the seal of rutho authority tho rity |