Show SUNDAY SERVICES religious services in the tabernacle sunday february 13 commenced at 2 pm president angus M cannon presiding the conr and congregation sang arthe praise ye the lord my iby heart shall join in work so 0 pleasant so ao divine prayer was offered by elder A M my musser the choir sang I 1 wex well sing biag all hail to jesus name honor and praise we give to him on cal hill and died that we might live the priesthood of the twentieth ward offic officiated in the administration of the sacrament apostle lorenzo snow addressed the congregation he said that the peculiar cu circumstances in which he arose caused him to request the congregation to be aas as quiel as poo possible sible as his lungs were not strong enough for him to speak very loud he had also just been liberated from an aa eleven months incarceration in the utah penitentiary en it ent lary and the change to this r large r ge congregation from about 66 56 persons whom chehad he had the honor of addressing dres in a cell was rather confusing he read from romans viii 35 to 90 30 who shall separate us ns from the ove of christ shau shall tribulation or distress or persecution se ne or famine or or peril or E iv d As i it fis is written for thy sake we are killed all the me day long wo we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter kayin may in all ail these things we are more than conquerors through hira him that loved us u for I 1 am persuaded that neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor powers nor noi things present nor thugs ahn gs to come tor nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of bod god which is id ir chaut jesus our lord he had bad felt particularly struck with some lines in the opening hymn happy the man whose hopes rely on israe israels Ps god I 1 and I 1 he sends the ia laboring conscience peace and grants the prisoner sweet re release lesse 11 the wor words ds pt paul embraced sentiments that the speaker had bad endeavored to cultivate as should all the latter day saints since he became a member of the church over 50 years ago he be had bad found that ik ijjas was necessary to contemplate and ana prepare toy for the difficulties that beset the path in which he be proposed to move if the saints had tae same G gospel os p e as t that ha t embraced by the ancient apostles t they h must expect ap e t to meet the same sam e d I 1 atil ea which were of a nature t r t tha h a no man 1 in his bis own strength could overcome if the saints did not take this into consideration when they joined the church they had had it brought face to face with them in their experience and some who had said they were willing to sacrifice all for the gospel had bad fallen away and fought that which they had known to be true the speaker had bad done all be could to keep out of the penitentiary for he did not like the prospects of going there which were anything but agreeable he had never been in a court or been arrested before and had bad considered himself as moral as the gen gan men was a good citizen he be honored his bis country and had bad as much loyalty in his bis heart as men generally possess assess when he found himself in tte the penitentiary he understood that that was the course for him to follow when he received the gospel he covenanted that if god gave him a testimony of its truth direct from himself he be would devote his entire life to the proclamation of its glorious principles he had not been to in the church many years before god revealed to him in the visions of the day that he had bad organized his children and that divine faculties were in the organization of every man and woman that jesus came into the world to show a plan and lead the way to a restoration to eternal life that chat others night receive the same glory that lie he and his father posses possessed bed in these visions he saw clearly that as man now is god was and as the son of god is man may be but he must do the same as jesus had I 1 done let the will of god be done by and through him as it is in heaven these t things ing cos cost the sou of god and his abst apostles p s t their lives when the speaker e rr received ec i Us apostleship Apostles bip he did not feel eel that 11 he would tare any better than the ancient apostles he did not know how far along be had got in the beale of fleenor did any man ige he never prayed to avoid sacrifice but rather to be prepared to make it in 14 the cause of truth he did not want to RO go back ac to t the penitentiary but bat would RO 0 back a t thousand uland times rather th than ma disgrace 9 e that which god had bad riven given lit him if he knew his body would die ie down there ih death there he would not turn punishment never moderated an honest mans opinion len he bal been treated kindly the governor had bad called on him but they did not agree they tried to tip convert each other but looked at me matters aters from different standpoints the governor had said certain effects would follow as he sincerely believed the speaker had told him that it if the people lived as became latter day saints aney would come out gloriously and the result would be the establishment of the kingdom of god and its extension among the world those in prison were preaching the gospel and showing by their actions that they believed what the they preached the speaker had preace preached the gospel in england scotland france italy switzerland palestine and the united states belore before he u undertook this task he be knew that it iee w true as god bad revealed i to him he had bad been in prison eleven months the su supreme reme court of the united states has had said he had been confined six months more than the law warranted those who committed such deeds would find that it was a heinous offense to imprison a man unjustly the speaker had bad no quarrel with the court or with any man maa let them do their work and the saints 10 lo do theirs he never considered himself a convict it he be had bad not been au apostle he would probably be a free man while while in prison he be had been introduced to m many n Y prominent men among them clai chief ef justice justice wei waite te it was perhaps amusing to the marshal to snow show an apostle dressed in stripes an and th the e speaker did his bis best to show W way h he e was there one of the visitors major ajor strong ilg of the department of joe jas ticie said it was the most out he had bad seen for a penitentiary tent iary he suggested that the people pet petition tj I 1 tion to be sent to detroit the speaker replied that they had some privileges of visiting from friends it was different with thern them than with most prisoners they did not consider themselves convicts said the major neither do we there others made similar statements as to how they looked on the mormons cormons Mor mons T the 0 prisoner for the truths sake found satisfaction in knowing they were proclaiming the gospel in reference to the treatment men the people were receiving at the hands of the nation he be would say that the temporal salvation of his people was as important inthe in the lords sight us as was wan their spiritual tuat salvation and he would deliver them the course of the government may appear alarming in that it sought to hakea way every r right ight of the L latter atter day saints they were of course somewhat disturbed by these thede things s aud and it was not strange but god had offered and given them protection many times in the past est and he held all governments mentse in iii his bands the latter day saints were not all that god desired to bring to salvation all the inhabitants of the earth were his children and ft was his purpose to effect their happiness and the tb saints who had received the holy Priesthood should work in unison with him for this object many of those who were persecuting the saints were better men than they were thought to be but the spirit of the evil one bad control over them the lord wanted to save them and the saints must suffer for their good if they did not they were not working in unison with god they had seen wives deprived of their husbands children of their fathers men so po changed that their children did not know them and some other very unpleasant things which it was painful ful to tg contemplate and endure butas but as a general thing the officers of the prison tied bad done pretty well the saints sometimes felt angry at the trouble brought on them by their enemies but it was the ignorance of the latter and and the saints should forgive them the speaker had bad a charitable feeling for this nation six years ago he had bad made some remarks on this subject he read from this discourse in which watch the good that had bad been deneto done to the people of utah by the government was upon were corrupt legislators out there were still men who desired aestrea justice this was shown in the united states supreme court decision on the question of segregating indictments the decision had not been anticipated by the enemies of the saints it may have been somewhat of a surprise that there was a department who would do the saints justice but god had bad so brought it about it had saved the people from to years imprisonment the saints after submitting to ic essary chastisement had bad received many kindnesses who would have thought thou lit when they were driven irom from missouri that their prophet would have afterwards been appointed governor of the territory yet so it was what is called the bill agreed on by the conference corn com had bad stricken out the most serious and afflicting sections it if it should become a law would be pretty hard bard the saints were equally as well prepared to meet the exigencies of that law as they were to meet ciany of the persecutions that had bad pasted passed they were becoming accustomed to it and jesus and his apostles had bad done tor for the salvation of man many were surprised that saints would not give their word to obey the law as it would be so easy this showed that they believed the shinto saints were honorable and would keep whatever promise they made thy they could not afford to do anything that would dishonor them in the sight of at god he had shown the glories of the celestial kingdom h had id blessed and token taken care of them aua an had not allowed the op to control them only in accordance cor dance with his good purposes there was no sectarian church today to day that saints were making lor for their religion after the suffering comes the bleating blessin they may not have kept the co command many of god am a strictly as they should have done dobe in fact they had bad been neglectful they should abdula prepare tor any pressure the lord might see ft fit to bring on them and for greater usefulness there was a wonderful future before the people language could not describe IL it but they must pass through the narrows and learn by sacrifice job was given to the bands of his enemies and lie he suffered greatly but he be was true some of the saints might receive an equal trial job in his sacrifice entered the door to his fame and glory his example was now a comfort to te mil liono who were trying to do right god wanted brave men meD morally and spiritually men who louia would honor and and serve sarve arlim him so sometimes betimes people feel that tuey cannot b bear ear all things and there would not be ju justice stice in requiring them to it the saints into showed that they would stand by the truth in life or in death as god had bad declared ile he would try them his trace grace would be sufficient the pressure coming would maske make it difficult for any man or woman to stand unless chey were wera living their religion and working righteousness the choir sang the anthem zion benediction by elder P P pratt |