Show SUNDAY SERVICES elder henry P richards of the bleh council as ire elding moer at the tabernacle services bun BUD day afternoon after nooD the barno sweet la is the work my go god my king to praise thy name give thanks and sing prayer was off axed by alaor wm MoLa choir further sang bang though in the outward church below the wheat and tares to together geLber grow elder bluer brigham young of the coun coon oil of apostles Apo silea was the speaker he said eald t anat oat in arising arusing be desired to say eay a low few words to the latter day saints bartute and to that end he asked the faith and sl ept the brethren and his bis remarks might te be edify i g to those whom he be addressed the speaker said bald that this was a day of warning a day in which each man bad need to warn his hie neighbor it took all the intelligence and faith that the saints could muster to comprehend the bigins of the times the saint had performed a great work for not only the be salvation eal of themselves but forthe for the salvation of their kindred who bad passed from this probationary sphere and the more they did in this direction the more did they see rising up op before them to accomplish in this respect it was wait incumbent upon the latter day saints to perform this labor and aad to persevere in proclaiming the glad tidings of great joy to the nations at al the earth A people having these responsibilities resting upon them should strive to retain regain the spirit of the lord lora that they might remain steadfast in ID the work and keep their shoulders to the wheel in rolling it on it was said by the nations that the latter day saints were turning the world upside down if they were doing this it was only because of their preaching to all mankind those same principles which christ and his apostles taught to the people anciently gd had bad permitted his work to come forth upon the earth in these last days to give the people living in this dispensation a chance to serve him it if they saw fit thus securing for themselves a salvation in his kin kingdom adom it if they did not see fit to serve him they would rob themselves of that happiness and joy which the was calculated to bring to its adherents and they would be counted among the wicked receiving the judgments 0 the altai almighty aty in his own due time elder eider toung young said that in early jusys ay in these ibele mountain vales the saints were united and godf earl ap they had thrown on off babylon and were all ol of one heart and one mind in the service of god today things thing were different la in the midst of the latter day saints the people had bad begun to put on babylon and wickedness bad increased to such an extent that at present vice and immorality ws a glaring condition which existed in our midst the speaker felt that it behooved the kainth to be on the watch that they might throw a safeguard around their children and see flee that they were not mixing up with the wicked and ungodly their positions should be those of honesty virtue and strict morality and they should always be found in ID the path of duty serving god and keeping his commandments rather than mixing up with the sin on and wickedness of the world god never designed that the litter day saints should become poverty tricks and harassed with hard bard times true he had said that the he saints should suffer euffer persecution for his sake but never dever did he design that they should hould a lack of the common necessaries of life at the present time lime necessaries although chea cheap reace and plentiful were beyond the reach of some of the saints because they had bad no money with which to purchase them in the early days odthe church was no particular criterion arbe saints exchanged their products with each other and there was no starvation such as aa there is at the present time the land was and hau had been blessed of the lord and it yielded in abundance sufficient to meet the demands of hl his people with plenty to spare pare but still poverty and starvation was staring them in sh the eface face these conditions bad been brought about I 1 through the actions of the people they bey bad curved too much attention to the be things of the world and ada bad made the things of god a secondary consideration and iu in some luB taro no do consideration elde ration at all they bad be become coutte avaiu ana lifted jilted up in pride those in affluent circumstances had felt that they were above their neighbors who were not so well fixed finan financially clady as aa they they had bad divit divided ted up into inta factions and had acted in such a way as a to go drive from them the spirit of the lord the speaker concluded his remarks by urging the saints to look to gou goo the he father to put their trust in him and thereby receive his blessings anu to aim to keep themselves unspotted from the sins of the world if they did this bis they hey would be blessed and prospered and all things would work together for their goods good and their glory and exaltation in the kingdom 01 god choir sang the anthem jesus I 1 my cross have hare token taken benediction was pronounced by eljer joseph E taylor |