Show 41 sunday Ser religious Beligio ua services were held in the tabernacle suit bait lake city sunday Febu 1893 elder angus M cannon annons president preside nt of the stake presiding eldi tig the choir and ami congregation ea as g the hymn commencing corn mend ug redeemer of israel oar only delight prayer by elder george goddar goddard rJ 1 the choir next sang the hymn commencing though deeV ning trials thron throng your our way of press on press on ye saints of I 1 rhe priesthood of the fifth ward officiated in the administration of the ftera sacrament ment ELDER ORSON was toe the speaker he quoted we the words of the prophet jeremiah when called by the lorl lord to fulfil fulfill the duties of bis big mission iah bah ah I 1 lord god I 1 cannot speak for I 1 am a child anil and the lord said unto him say day not I 1 am a child tor for thou go to those to whomsoever I 1 will send thee and the words that I 1 givs give unta thee thou a peak eak unto them be not noi dismayed by V their heir faces for I 1 have made thee this day a defensive je city 1 etc some borne of the feelings which jeremiah felt and some of the trepidation which be experienced were doubtless the experience 0 any elder eider who was balle i upon suddenly without premeditation to address a congregation like theune the une present his only OJAY consolation would be in the thought that if gd called him to perform a duty he would also equip him for that auty one c uld only speak truth by we toe spirit of truth which unto truth but this spirit was pr nailed V t the be disciples of christ we understood that the light of god was in every soul that cometh into the world that all men lives live move and have their being because they have we spirit of the lord this promise of our savior referred to a special gilt gift of the spirl it did bot refer merely to 10 that light which ligh teth every man laun that cometh into the world tor for disciples he had chosen out of the world and he was to give them another comforter that would take his him places place that would comfort and guide them when he should be absent in person from them tim eni which was to qualify his disciples to go forth and preach the word of power was the gift of the holy ghost without out which their would have been spoken in vain th speaker gave instances ot ol the heroism of rhioa mun men arn are capable when trans transformed formea by the power of the holy gruet and of which they would have been incapable it if left belt to themselves some might ask what need have we for aoh such a spirit to Is not thu the intelligence which man naturally possesses sufficient in this life and many supposing this trusted in their own judgment and intelligence and acknowledged no higher power nothing superior to themselves such men or ucb such women were deceived every bof day of their lives by hollow bollow shows by and appearances by false seeming that appeared to be true we were too prone to judge men by the number of dollars they pops possessed essed by their houses bouses and lands by the size of their bank accounts but god did not do so his hia spirit penetrated beneath the outside crust we had bad need of this spirit to show us the things of this life to reveal to us the truth to give us warning messages lest we roii run into traps and pitfalls pit falls fulls and make fatal blunders and mistakes tribe who ascended the heights of the spirit were above the mists and ol cl uda and saw further and more clearly things that stretched even beyond the horizon of time why then should mankind scornfully gregaru the claim of one or more mon men w ho had made a study of religion who by godliness ot of life and by fasting and prayer anti and by struggling to conquer self had gained ascendancy over them and stood upon the mountain height beight looking down upon the worlo these things were promised aoto those who became the disciples of the lord who believed and dm did not doubt he that doub teth is damned I the men who had bad believed from the creation down dowd were those who hao had turned the world under god hissed Him sef they who bad been persecuted and despise 1 and whose banit shad been cast out as evil god had bad been with brave men from the beginning and because they believed belle veu they had moved the world the ordinance of baptism which was required of us was wag symbolical of death and resurrection when we were immersed in the water we typified the death of the past the death of sin and were buried with christ in baptism the latte rd saints did not claim that they could grasp infinity for as he apostle said we now see through a gluts glaba darkly 12 but we knew the truth in part and it was something even to know a part instead of guessing at it and having a mere opinion the spirit ot truth told the latter day saints among other things that they came from the presence of their father in heaven that they were begotten sons and daughters unto god in the spirit world and had been sent down here to undergo and paw pass through certain experiences of pain and sorrow notwithstanding the belief of some that god is not in these things the speaker marveled how such people calling themselves christians and be lievers in jeus christ could think and teach thus we know knew we would meet calamity when we oame came here some peri persons sous were always murmuring and complaining because this life was not an endless scene of ef joy they wanted all the sweets anu and none of 0 the bitters they sought pleasure and gave themselves up to the worship of it because they deceived themselves with the idea that gud god nad had no use for suffering and so they thought it was their duty to shrink every trial and sacrifice if a thing gave them pain they thought it came from below and if it gave them pleasure they accepted it as a blessing from god but god was in every human sorrow borrow and pain and in the trials and vicissitudes which we undergo in this mortal life As we came forth from god so we would return unto him we would yet blossom into divine beings for we are of the same species as our father and our mother in heaven the reason we oame came her ewas to learn what they had le lealiea alnea to become intelligent as they are intelli gent 2 for intelligence was wae the glory of god mormonism was not as the world declared A briend of ignorance it was wag a friend to the ignorant to the unlearned to the humble bumble and pheob the obscure but it dij not beli believe eveln in ignorance it did not seek geek to keep its ito dia ciple caples B in ignorance but develop them and lead them forward to heights upon heights of knowledge the choir sang the anthem the god of israel benediction by elder A H cannon |