| Show SUNDAY SERVICES religious religions services were kere held in ia the tabernacle sunday may 14 1887 commencing at 3 2 p in president angus M cannon presiding the choir and congregation sang 0 say what is truth tw the famat fairest gem I 1 hat bat the riches of worlds can produce prayer by elder john B lewis the choir sang A poor wayfaring man of grief hath often crossed me on my way the priesthood of the twelfth ward officiated in the administration of the sacrament at 1318 HOP ORSON F WHITNEY was called to address the congregation he said he be felt the need of the prayers of the saints that he be might not stand before them in vain but that out of the wealth of the good things of god the holy spirit might bestow some of those thinks things best suited to the wants of the people they had assembled to worship god and concentrate their minds on the things of eternal lite life that they might be in a proper condition to do so they had bad partaken partaker par taken of the sacrament of the lords supper in obedience to his command it was required ot of the saints to meet together often for this purpose with pure u re hearts ph andelean and clean bands that t they y might worthily partake of the sacred emblems and remember the sacrifice and atonement of the lord jesus christ for the promise premise was that it if they did remember him they should have his spirit to be with them sometimes it appeared as though the saints paid too little attention to this sacred duty they did not search deeply y enough into their hearts before engaging lu iu this ordinance for instance young people would sometimes be laughing or speaking lightly and take the bread and water mechanically giving no thought to the great event it commemorates others older would be asleep when the cup cap came aroun dand others still thinking of things outside in the world this ordinance ordin anee was instituted early in the history of the church by the prophet joseph it was at the time newel and land his wife were bap sized and was instituted by command ot of the lord to be partaken partaker par taken of 0 by those who were pure pare in heart who had repented repeated ol of sn sin been baptized for the remission thereof and received the holy ghost on this occasion joseph started out to procure a bottle of wine to 10 conform to the custom anciently he had not proceeded far when an aa angel anel of the lord met him and commanded him to go no farther and said it mattered not what they ate and drank in partaking of the sacrament so long as their hearts were pure and their hands clelo clean and it was lone clone with an eye single singe to godf glory the stress being more upon the Vort worthiness hiness ot of the individual than on the materials used in the ordinance the prophet was also told by the lord that the day would come when he would stand on the earth with all the ancient prophets in his kingdom and partake of the sacrament and then ihen they would use the pure juice ox of the grape joseph was told not to procure wine thal v as impure and which he would have to purchase ol of his enemies and that it wine were used at all it must be pure and ot et his peoples own make what a field of thought opens up in this promise of the lord to joseph that he would partake of tile the sacra ment on the earth with Hs his prophets Prop liets in his kingdom in this dispensation when all things in ia christ will be gathered in one oae and all the cf past ager would flow into a 9 powers given to his servants when the marvelous work of the lord should be e consummated sum mated f israel be gathered zion be redeemed and arise in tier her lory glory the light of the whole earth when the gentiles should come to her light and kingi to the brightness of her bisluk ns ng this was the advent of the great millennium of peace and righteousness when nation would no more A rise se against nation but would beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks books and walk in the light ot zion an and d eions zions king a thousand years when those aft have suffered martyrdom would reign with christ f ul filling the predict prediction fon of john who saw sitting upon thrones those who had bad nut not worshiped the beast but had bad suffered for christs christ sake and when all nations would b be proud to acknowledge his sway wearing their crowns if at all as subordinate rulers over provinces or tributary kingdoms of the universal empire I 1 of e christ this la Is the glorious consummation I 1 to be ushered in as the result of the great work of god in the latter days I 1 the poets and prophets of the past have bave predicted such a consummations and they who close their eyes upon the advent of such an era have bat ba little appreciation of the great creat things which god has in his heart to accomplish for the benefit of mankind in the days of king of babylon the setting up of the kingdom ot of god was predicted by a prophet of the lord the king had had bad a dream in which he foresaw the crumbling away of all the empires of thie the world although the vision passed from hip bis the effect was to make him bim tremble for the security of his throne so agitated was he that he called in the wise men and astrologers of his bis kingdom and asked them not only to interpret the dream but to reveal the h e dream itself which had flown trova his memory they answered that they could not that such a thing was never asked before they said if he be told the dream they would interpret it their words made him angry and akad he commanded that they should be slain among the captives of judah was a youth named daniel a prince of judah who was of pure and temperate life who ref refused used to defile himself with tue meats and wines of the kings table and kept himself so that the spirit of god could shine through him and reveal heavenly mysteries daniel went before the king and was made equal to the task of revealing in plainness what was hidden from the wisdom of the world the dream of was no chance but the prophecy of a work which god designed to establish on the earth in ia the day of the consummation of all things for he will bring brine about no event affecting the welfare of the lauman human family but he will mako mak it known beforehand to his servants the prophets that mankind may know how bow to win his favor and escape his impending imp eudine judgments so it was that aw B C was foretold what should come to pass in the lat ter er days daniel being inspired told the he king what hat his bis dream was and the interpretation was also given thre ug him by the almighty showing forth the he future f history of the babylonian empire and its successors the medo persian grecian and roman empires was told that he represented the gold head of the great image seen in his bis dream but was reminded that it was god who had bad given him his kingdom he had bad formerly said Is not this great babylon which I 1 have built by the might ot of my power for the house of the kingdom for the honor and glory of my majesty but daniel reminded remind him that god bad given him the kingdom and that he zetteth up one and down another according to his As own will after bim hime feame ame a lesser power represented by the images breast and armb of silver then one oae of brass typified by the loins and thighs then one of iron of the les leks were typical then several smaller kingdoms represented by the feet and toes toe in the days of these last powers era the god of heaven was to set t lupow up a k kingdom I 1 gd that was tu to stand forever some iuis was wab tilled in the coming of jesus christ when years alter daniel john the baptist came as a messenger before hit his face proclaiming that the kingdom kiBic dom of heaven was at hand band many of ef the Christ christiaa laia world suppose that the king came and aad set up his kingdom a spiritual one oae and that the prophecy of daniel was then fulfilled but we read that jesus came as a humble personage instead of a crown of gold he wore a crown of thorns instead of a deep tre a reed instead of a palace as he himself declared he had not where to 10 lay his head bead he came not as the son of a caesar or a herod but as the adopted son of a carpenter he came to his own and his own received him not he did not setup set up H his Is temporal kingdom for as he said my kingdom Is not of ef this world 11 nor was it at that time because he did not set up a temporal kingdom the jews could bould not believe he was the messiah the times were not then ripe for such sin an event although the kingdom came night to the jews it did not tarry with them jesus told his disciples that the gospel of the kingdom should be preached in all the world as a witness and then the end should come this was to take place at a subsequent time and he warned his disciples to take heed that they were not deceived tor for the second coming of the son of man should be as the I 1 light ight shining from the east even unto the west it Is only necessary to trace the history ot of the world from daniels time to the birth of christ Chris tto to see that Ne buchs dream was not no fulfilled in the meridian merici aa of time while his bis grandson was carousing a 9 handwriting came upon the wall of of ills bis palace e the soothsayers could not unravel the mystery of 0 the words daniel now an old man was sent for and by the power of tile the holy ghost declared that mystery and toe the change of the kiam kingdom to the modes medea and persians on the ruins rains of that monarchy cyrus established the kingdom typified by the silver the persians were in ia due time overthrown and alexander came next as typified by the brass alexander when he be approached pro ached jerusalem and the high priest and ills bis train wert tout out to meet him bowed laim himself self in the dust before the name of god upon the high priests eats breastplate and declared this man bad appeared to him in vision and encouraged him to undertake toe the conquest of persia would that all men and nations instead of drifting into infidelity would emulate the ex ample of alexander to ia this respect and not forget god in their prosperity and success access but they are prone to re move more their hearts tar far from him alex alei anders empire sitter after his bis death wr wi taken by a nation prepared by tt tl lord for such a work the roman err en pere that empire beat in all the nations oi of the earth and and wi w schooled to fulfil fulfill the prediction mac ma to in this respect this empire becan strong through the wars and ties it encountered as vaen men strong by suffering and tribulation atio when god has a perfect people on tt tl earth it will be because they nave at al stained from the sou soul destro destroying Y 10 g vici V I 1 that have ruined the most p powers w erff nations and have endur endured edd much anbi lation for righteousness sake the is no limit to the of a people who are pure in their live who practice the principles of t ti gospel cespe and are persecuted cheref and endure faithful it was barf bar treatment with the romans added their virtue temperance and fru galil that made them strong as birou t tl metal representing them in the grei image they beat in pieces all nation aud and made them tributary to the cesar casar it was in the days of one of thel the cousars that jesus was born but was in the days of the kings B that wei we to follow the dissolution of the empi that the kingdom of god was to be a 81 uz up as daniel prophesied in the da oi of jesus the roman empire was in i golden era at the zenith of its powe pow a and ad it was not till over years b h elapsed that it was even divided i halves it took rome many years to crumb and die for it had became a nation through the practice of tt hardy virtues of temperance and fr an fn bality the dissolution had bad to t gradual bt bt the time came as ha 1 been een predicted predicate ItI transformed itse from patriots into a ration nation of plunder blunde ers era and sad and debauchees debau chees arrogating to its itse the power god had bad given to it ft even t its discoli bissol tion came as long as rome upheld it principles of liberty and practiced edv vii tue tu according to the light then j iven was invincible like the oak of the to foi est estin in the st ormall the at stronger rodger for t tt blasts that swept through it bicais virtue was within it the sap of latea lifear disseminated vigor and vital through the whole body but like tree struck hy by light lightning nin th the empi in I 1 withered rind and fell when lit becam became in moral sad and began to tyra ize and devour mankind I 1 fate and that of its pr decess ors to is the fate of all nations thi th commit the blunders of which th were guilty but suck such seems to be t tt tendency of human nature and nd G gc had bad sent in all ages prophets to poll poi out to men and nations the path safety and prosperity all these things are but natura earth will return to earth dust to du due and all imperfect governments of in nu bold within themselves the seeds beads dissolution the debris will yet t cleared anav and god will estable his own kingdom over all the eart earl he bad already sent his messengers lay its if foundation the saints we w preparing the kingdom for the comil comi of the lord jesus christ the kit king IL g kings this work W dinits its present ahas prepared from before the foun dati of the world was preparatory to greater it was tho forerunner ol of greater eta eia the a millenna Millen Mille aniu nh of peace and righteousness it wai was tor for thus preparing for ta t coming of christ that the saints w wt e stigmatized as disloyal it bet bei charged that they desired a kingdom lieu of a republic there were more loyal people to the principles liberty than the t e latter day sain th they believe this i government w me raised yd up of god godana and its principal pl are only a type of the grand liberty a equality to exist under the govern me e ot the king of kings their jobje in lite was to hold bold up and maims those principles against those these who a traitors to freedom who shout lou est eston on independence day but woe wo turn the key of dungeons on americ citizens elti zens who worship god according the dictates of their consciences su men were less honorable than the 0 pirates that swept the seas they least ran up the black flag blazon with skull and crossbones cross bones as signal bof of their trade of blo and plunder too honorable to sail eail 1 fight under false colors but th I 1 land pirates angut put on the mask I 1 patriotism and under the stars a 13 stripes r e e and in the sacred ancret name aft lit liberty t 1 y assail the principles of ir in dona dom and make war on the 0 of their country such will yeti yet known aud and des despised llod for what they ai a TheSa the saints will wil also be known a honored for their integrity to the pr i caples of liberty this nation was founded by w wi men as a step preparatory for fora a g greal rea government into which it will mer berj and under the reign of christ righteous principles will be perpetua pepe luat t and all men inen ol of every belief and prof ston sion protected jand oe do secure in th rights this is the work the sail sai t are en aired in in and preparing for tl T I 1 gospel gospel of the king kingdom doin of god Is ia be preached to all nations as a and aad a warning before the end ah ab come may god prepare the natio nati 0 that they way may not be found fights against him when he appe appear areta eth fc may cast their crowns and sceptres tres his feet and hall bail him lord of lor ion and king of kings the choir sang aang the sa anthem thein mighty jehovah Jebo benediction was pronouns pronounced unc I 1 ra patriarch john smith |
