Show sunday services religious Beligio ue services were held in the tabernacle bait asit lake city july 31 1892 com commend menel 9 at 2 p m president angus M cannon presiding i i the choir sang the hymn servants blest 0 lord I 1 bow are thy how sure cure is their defense prayer by elder aurelius miner the choir sang the hymn hamu beginning though trials throng your way press on press on YO ye sal saints KI ta of god the priesthood of the twenty thild waid ard administered in the ordinance rf the sacrament ELDER B H ROBERTS addressed the congregation he said eaid that the gospel of jesus christ was wag very ry fruitful in subject matters matter and the to current history of the world with which we might make ourselves acquainted quain ted through the medium of tee bl art brigs prigs as every day brought forth new evidence 3 that the world was waa sally in nten cf the gobbel as a panacea for for those ills ille with which was waa afflicted and which in truth veered offered the only remedy for the evils af tf which men complained corn pla ined the other absy a noted public speaker made the bertion ter tion over the counters of the saloons in the united states ture passed last year in round num 1507 and when we were confronted A fronted with facts of that kind it seemed med to him pretty clear proof that to world was in need of that part of be e dospel known to the latter day albas as the word of wisdom the cited word of the lord was that wine and od strong drinka were not good for children of men but this was not th we only item out of the very long list of f VIB evils that bat the gospel of jesus ch christ riot would eventually cure of late we bad had bad many manifests manifesta cloyas oos of a very serious disease in the body y politic of the united states the aker here referred to the labor coubles in idaho and pennsylva ak af and said that these were kimp toms of the great d issue disease which aich wits was Bearch irig out the vitals of one of the grandest states stutt at had been brought into existence hi fu modern times if there was one thing mure more than another for which our at would be decou accounted anted remarkable it as perhaps the rapid accumulation of f wealth in the hands of the few the I 1 fortunes or tunes of vanny of the private citizens of the united states far out fi tripped ripped the wealth possessed sed by and kings king in former times kany any of these vast possessions had bad been obtained within the past quarter of f a century end and this wealth brought power with it ai we had bad seen by rent dent events in pennsylvania huoh power that its if possessors might pass pasa by abe constituted authority of the sta ata e and d employ what was equivalent to an bed soldiery old lery of itself and by such for force guard that which they had so ac Gurau cumulated on the other hand band the men who were compelled to GUM W their livelihood by the sweat of their ir brow were to be observed organizing gan izing into labor societies and creating a bond of sympathy that they might not be completely at the mercy of this aggregated wealth on n their part was seen a very unwise I 1 disposition to resort to violence in order to resist what they conceived to be a pressure of capital upon labor and unless some BO me forto fortunate circumstance should arise to restrain both these forces in the resistance of each other this generation Ws waa promised a conflict with which the great rebellion of a quarter of a century ago would be by comparisons comparison a sUla anier breeze to a tempest the people who were thus arraying themselves on either eithe side raide had bad need of the gospel of jesus christ this great conflict between capital and labor confronted the statesmen of our age and sorely perplexed their wisdom it had been beyond the power of the philosopher to grapple grample with it so far or to give us any i intelligible solution of the problem presented those who had 9 already undertaken in other countries france and england to cope with the difficulty had failed in the accomplishment of their good designs they to have forgotten that it was a world that had gone wrong and that it would require the wisdom of a god to set it right that these problems were too much for human effort the socialists and communists would settle the difficulty by changing conditions they believed that all abia tb evils which exist had grown out of olar social conditions und that it if these were changed the result would be changed also making the world if not dot absolutely good at least much better in his bis humble bumble opinion these men working from the out outside sides through their organizations organizational had bad begun at the wrong end he believed that the gospel promised to be much more successful for the reason that while it did not entirely ignore the influence of conditions upon the children of n men 1613 it realized the fact that one must begin with man himself instead of at the conditions which environ him if the man were corrected and placed right conditions would regulate themselves or be easily met while if the man remained untouched it would be found impossible to create the conditions dosi desirable si the gospel of jeus christ began by correcting the evils which exist in the world by teaching each individual re peu tance of hits hie and transgressions by undertaking to him righteous and in connection with the improvement which shoula come to our rao race through rope repe tallies the conditions would gradually change for the better it must follow elearly as as the day followed the night teat if the individuals in a community or in a nation became righteous then tbt nation itself would become io so he believed that the ancient prophet understood the value of righteousness aheu he be said that it ex iba alteta a nation but that sin is a reproach to any ny people if half the inhabitants of the united states were righteous and were not proud high minded disobedient lovers of pleasure ore than lovers lovere or god it if they loved ties tice and truths truth aid possessed the great virtues of charity and brotherly kindness it woula be found possible so to adjust the qa question stion of the remuneration ne of labor that labor on its part would be willing to act for the advantage of those who employed it that there would 1 ba no friction between the two forces no DO need of strikes on the one hand band and lockouts lock look outs outa on the other if each man loved his neighbor as lilma elf self and each one sought bought his bla neighbors good rather than his own the high standard of moral virtue contemplated tem plated in the gospel goepel of jesus christ then those conditions which now portended great evil to the nation of which we formed a part would not prevail that prophet of ancient times was very wise who said make me not rich lest I 1 be proud and high minded make me not poor lest leet I 1 be tempted to steal recognizing that between these two extremes was a happy means that was desirable for the children of men to attain mormonism Mormon iBin s as aa it was called by the world was no dead religion dwell ing upon the problems of past ages but had in it those brincil les lee which should operate for the redemption of man kind from the evils by which we were surrounded we were driven to the conclusion that our heavenly father had provided abundantly for his children but that in the distribution of the gifts and resources which he pad ad placed upon the earth there was some thing fundamentally faulty in one of his revelations to this church he said there is in abundance in the earth and to snare scare for the wants of man and yet we found the unreasonable accumulation of wealth on the one hand band and the direst poverty on the other the jUon offered in the gospel began by recognizing god as the author of the earth and the possessor of it and that which we hold held was merely a stewardship of those things committed unto our care in the con arol of that stewardship individuality was to be preserved it was not I 1 in n tended that a man should lose his agency as in the schemes contrived by communists and socialists but that his stewardship should be given to him and he be held responsible to god for its management there should be something higher in view than mere personal aggrandizement the principle of reforming mankind had a wider application than they had yet given to it it would not only reach men in their social conditions and la in the industrial system that should obtain but even in the sphere of civil government the fountain of right sou was the power that should undo the gordian knot which now troubled us we talked sometimes of centralized power to in government and the dan dangers gerit which were threatened from it indeed the experience of the world read us a sad chapter upon that subject but if afie world could be assured always of righteous kings ministers and judges it would make no difference how much power should be centred in them one of the old comprehended ended this subject when about to advocate a change in the form of the government from a kingdom to a republic said he be if you could always have righteous kings then it would be meet that you should haac a king to rule over you s but he recognized the difficulty of securing righteous men to rule and therefore it was his judgment to put it out of the power of a king to lead the people astray so he advised the people to do away with a kingly form of government and es cablish instead a government of judges fudges elected by themselves if prevailed over the earth it would matter but little what form of government was adopted but the difficulty was that men were not righteous that kings would constantly abuse their power that classes would have power and grasp it wherever they might and by whatever means were at their disposal he oe ce it became necessary nece esary that this power should be restrained and circumscribed and that they should be demanded to remain within with a constitutional lines that the liberty of the people might be preserved the prophet joseph smith recognized the value of this principle when he said let a government by good men live live for ever because in a government of that kind the rights of the people would be assured the authority of the government would be respected and there would be no evil that should come upon the people the chief cornerstone corner stone of the edifice of peace and good will should be the principle of righteousness the doctrines of christ were as necessary in the working out of problems in the future as they were in the present and had been in the past the caples of faith and repentance were eter clinging to these let us up go on anto per fecci n the choir sang the anthem awake my the benediction was pronounced by bishop A albert lbert H davies |