Show sunday Ser ces religious iaus services were hold held in the tabernacle but Salt it lake city sunday march 1893 elder joseph JE raylor of the stake presidency presiding the rho choir sa aa g the hymo hymn now let us rejoice in the day of salvation no longer as strangers on earth need we roam prayer uy by elner bluer robert morris morna the cadir sang while of these emblems we partake in jeans name and for his sake ULDER BRIGHAM YOUNG was the birtt speaker he said brethren anti and sisters and latter day saints fur for this opportunity I 1 leel feel most moat grateful to my gou I 1 have longed tor for it to come I 1 eland here tuia this afternoon slightly lu in the fear of man greatly in the tear lear of bod for the pleasure of looking into your faces once mure more I 1 am alu very thankful than krul A stranger in a strange land learns to appreciate his bis home and friends many changes hava occur occurred rou the last two years and a hall half during which t me I 1 have been absent irm your buur midst and it does me gaoa to be with yu you again it produces a happiness not of 01 an external character but such as comes irom the heart beart aher god has planted it and irom from where it cannot be wrested by man our elders are sent out today without any ADY great hope of converting erting the world not many converts are made today bouay as compared with the work dono done in that direction years ago yet a tew few choice spirits still accept the luib A kindlier spirit is now being kin aln oled uledine in the hearts of honest men towards us as individuals rud aud as a peo pie the gospel oi of the sou ot of gud god circuit arii es the the crea ot of god everywhere god has nut not removed from his people his arm is lot obort shortened ened neither dues dies he sleep the social religious and political clauges of this thin people are very notice able but there is no dimi diminution Lution in their faith I 1 eau cau testify to the tact that the church is increasing in J Imen siou and that the kingdom of god is nigh unto ue I 1 know it by the spirit ot of according to a statement made by the president of our church one good sermon in the early days ot of our exit enoe ence on the first principles of the gospel dospel would convert hund hundreds rede now it requires hundreds of good sermons to partially convert one person I 1 have known of invitations being issued in the mission field to the jubac abio to attend our meetings with but a single response enemies are of use we need them thoy they keep us ua irom from sinking fito fi to in the scourge must be applied or we deviate from the right sometimes Sume times JL I have said in my fie heart art gud be thanked tor for we caulli alt ni t have euc succeeded ceded opposition I 1 have never despaired in the past I 1 do OOL not leti lei le i i would be met in tue present I 1 spout five years in the ministry 1862 to 1867 the field was lull of missionaries Laries 1 became well wall acqua lutei with them during my last tew taw years of missionary worx woric I 1 never met one of them what le 1 the rea reason soju I 1 cannot account for it those who go on missions today are inexperienced yet there is satisfaction in the knowledge that t in a few months they prepare themselves so BO they aremon are mote than a match for the ministers who preach a gospel in conclusion the speaker said he was pleased with all that he had seen and heard since his return and thong h the latter day saints bal just juat occa sion fur thankfulness and encourage ment ELDER 0 W PENROSE next spoke he said that it was wae always refreshing to listen to the testimony of returned missionaries he had traveled a good deal in the old world where elder eider brigham young hau had been la laboring buring and he knew that it took more work patience and zeal today than formerly at first it was wag a now new doctrine to them but now it IS old and those who preached bed it are no longer regarded as curiosities the gospel of jesus christ compre handed bended everything that was good praiseworthy and beautiful it the e christian world had anything that the latter day saints did not possess they would readily accept it as it wag in reality a part or of mormonism niem if there was anything in science or any branch of learning that was elevating and admirable it was emora oed in mormonism because mormonism cora comprehended ended all that was desirable all truth it was truth truths s magnet the christian world AS a rule would not vie ac cep which was not specifically set get forth in their adopted creeds and articles ot of faith faith in jesus christ was the sum total of their religions that faith was all right so far a ag IS it went but it was simply the letter A of the gospel alphabet there were other letters other requirements which were unrecognized and unpracticed by them a simple assent to a particular idea would not insure the purpose they must have a real existent tangible living laith faith coupled with works the gospel of 01 jesus christ was sent into the world to make men anti and women like him to preach this the elders were sout sent into the world this wag not giot a generation of faith it was 0 one 11 a of skepticism skeptic sm and doubt it bad not that childlike faith of which the savior spoke and which he taught this was a day of warning and not of many words it was a day when the inhabitants of the earth were being called upon to repent obey and gather to a place of safety A A day when they were being warned that god wag about to enter into controversy with the i athons actions and sweep the earth with a besom of destruction tile the messengers who carry this warning word to theil fellow men became hungry weary and footsore but they forgot their tribulations by reason of the conviction and knowledge that they were servants of the lord and doing his Hia bidding it was the faith they possessed and taught which had reared the temple it was waa we power of god unto salvation t if f which paul spoke the word mormon which was now so go litten considered a word of re reproach would yet become one of honor the latter day saints had taken upon themselves the name of the savior and they should do it honor as they had covenanted in partaking of the emblems of his broken body and shed blood the work in which we were engaged was a labor of love it found an echo in thu hearts ot of tho the people |