Show DISCOURSE URSE BY ELDER JO JOHN HN MORGAN I 1 at the salt lake lahe atty sunday august auguar BY ARTHUR I 1 have been requested to occupy a portion of toe time this thia afternoon to which the through be the medium lord may make itself itsel spirit of the and I 1 shall be under manifest to you the necessity of earnestly asking you for an interest it in your sympathy and in your faith and prayers that I 1 may that will be fur for something be led to say our mutual good and blessi blessing og our ur father has in ID his wisdom seen one day in seven for or a fit at to set apart spart and that is ie that it WAY may special purpose children upon the earth a be to his day of rest a day ot of worship a day aside their worldly when they will lay ments of business entanglements entangle cares and the and call in the wandering ug Dg thoughts of their minds and seek to the principles of 0 center them upon eternal life and thus prepare them the six days before them belv selves s for nature itself bears testimony to to the necessity of this great law by demanding rest refit tor for the human body thai the system shall not dot become entirely un fitted tor for exertion by activity with ut rest there should be givon given to the of rest and the mind be body a season diverted from those things that engross it the six days of the week and d during u ri n g be led to contemplate other malters mailers meet together as we and that we way may do today that thag the spiritual man may be refreshed and strengthened and that our boffa ms ma be lit up by the aspiration of he holy spirit every latte rd saint who has had any experience to in endeavoring to live tile the principles of the gobdel can bear testimony to the fact that separation from the body at 01 the church and from the ordinance of the lord lords Is supper has a to weaken the faith of the land that teat he requires from day EO 10 day the strengthening influences that abide in tee body of the ibe church all these influences combined are not bot sometimes sufficient to prevent men and women walking into by and forbidden paths and curnin away from the ibe principle of the 1116 gospel but bug the purpose of our gathering together Is IB that the spiritual man may be strengthened and that we may be better prepared to live lives of usefulness and to fill the mission that in i assigned us under these circum canoe ta noe weak and fallible tuan iuan in and ana of himself would be an insufficient instrument whatever his talents tal eniti might be ba to instruct his fellow man it requires higher intelligence and in re potent influences than can emanate trona from mortal man abune to instruct his fellow mortal in the paths of eternal life it requires that inspiration which comes from our father in heave that the pat way of his children may be made clear and that they shall dot be sa aa the blind man groping lor for the wall the saints into of all ages have lived in troublous times timea they have been surrounded by tribulation and by influences flue fluen noes ces of an untoward character they have been a misunderstood people people sacred and profane auke bear teu mony many to this in ancient times tiara god godit it people were wen not understood the ob aoto they had lo in view and the intents of their hearts were not cow comprehended pretended pre bended the same rule applies today that has haa applied from the beginning and doubtless will in the future until truth and ausness erus eus ness shall prevail and men shall see eye to eye which we are told in the scriptures shall occur when zion shall come aidain while the name and fame of the latter day saints have been heralded to the ends ot or the earth yet they have been most moot grotek grotesquely quely misunderstood and misrepresented strange and peculiar ideas prevail in ia regard to the objects object ii and intents that actuate the latter day saints if there is one point more clearly evidenced than another in all sacred history hi etory it to la that there shall come certain times and seasons in the history of this earth that shall be looked upon as the culmination of the events f the provi dences of our father in the beginning or morning of time remarkable events transpired we have an account of the planting of the human race upon the earth of their increase and multiplication until uncil they covered li it of the time when they were swept from its face by a mighty deluge of their again multiplying ott on the earth until in the meridian of time the son of Us man came and offered himself as a living sacrifice for the redemption of ochia his brethren and sisters filled his mission upon the earth established the covenant of the gospel was cruci crucified fled upon this the cross burled buried in the tomb came forth a bectel and an immortal being and presented himself to his brethren aud made knowd to them at least in part the momentous nature of the mission that he had bad to fill an epoch in the history of the world that perchance had not dot been equalled equal led up to that time following that we read the sayings of the prophets and his own words in relation to the great events that transpire in the latter days day a that should so dwarf into insignificance the events of former days that the memory ot of them should almost lade fade from the mind of 01 man As it was to ID the days of noah so shall it ite pe also in the days of the gon son of man when he shall return to earth in power and glory and with authority to reign the latter day saints belleve that mat there should be a day of preparation for this great event and while the world but little comprehends this im fact or the connection that the latter day saints have with it yet to the latter day saints it to is a jiving reality the day of the coming of these events to is not far distant dista ot and ana we are living in one of the most momentous ages of the world an age prophesied of in the past as one in which tb the work of the lord should be cut short in righteousness wherein alt all things should shoula transpire very rapidly so BO much so that the peoples of the earth would be unprepared for them when over naif beff a century ago there here rose up in the western wilds of the state of now new york a few people who called them hem selves latter day baletta thee were mere very few indeed who had the hardihood to believe that those people would grow and increase until they became a mighty multitude tn in the me topa of be whose bobb reputation should go abroad to the world until they should be known of all meo men yet how rapidly has that been fulti fulfilled one event has trod on the heels af knotner so go closely that it has baa seemed almost impossible to keep them in memory yet lot let any one take the history of these events and compare them with the word as recorded in the bible the bouk of mormon and the book of doctrine and cove auto ante as well as the words of the living oracles and there has haa been no event of any importance but has been clearly foretold bistor has baa but follows out the words of prophecy ana if heed bad been beel given to these no event could possibly have transpired without our minus having been fully informed of it 19 and our hearts lully fully prepared for it but we have been like the f day saints when the savior was crucified cruci fled they lost nope hope for they had regarded him as the shiloh and the redeemer but when they saw him lifted on the crove cross they thought ibey had bad been deceived and they went their way yet the daviar had bad foretold ore told those very events and when he fie appeared to them in his resurrected and ana immortal body and called their attention to the things that he had spoken thy they th y remembered thern them very distinctly so we looking back over the path that w wf have trod den may recall to our minds declaration atter after declaration ucla ration from the be mouths ot of the living jiving oracles and from the writings of inspire in spirU men mud and see how clearly the events that have transpired have been to retold and what applies to the past may just as distinctly apply to the future NOL one step will be taken bot one line marked out not one movement made but what has been or will be clearly dutli outlined neu to the minds of the latte rd saints saint if they will only give heed thereto I 1 read during the sinking singing of the first hymn the title tale of the anthem which is in to be sung I 1 bellive believe at the close of this afternoons services bleared BleeS Bd are the men who fear him they ever walk in the ways of peace P it 19 struck my mind very forcibly it is an ad monition that every latter day saint should give heed to and if they will their paths shall be paths of safety you today are witnesses to co the fact that had bad the latter day saints given heed to the admonitions and counsel of the lord as they have been given from time to time through his servants there would have been greater peace greater prosperity and greater bleam ings I 1 gs showered upon them than their minds uan ton conceive of but we have seen as through a glass darkly to a great extent we have not comprehended the end from the beginning by any mean we have groped as it were as the blind man for the wall we have walked lu in weak now ness I 1 we have stumbled in the path in many instances and we have had to reap the results of that stumbling and or of that carelessness in the future there will be a greater necessity tor for the latter day saints to have light and intelligence in regard to the toland and will of god than ever before because of the conditions and circumstances by which we are surrounded we look but on the world today to in its political organization in it its and in its financial An ancial and we can only think of one thing and that Is ie that the foundation of things is ii slipping dipping from under the world and that babylon is i tottering to its downfall in those these vents events that are transpiring today we a e the handwriting upon the wall that shall yet develop into and bring forcibly to us these events that have been prophesied of in the past which shall come to pass while yet this generation shall live A few weeks ago an insignificant quarrel between 0 e of the mighty nations of the tha old world and one of the inferior pos powers era casseu all the world to stand still and almost bold its ita breath 1 lecause ot of the fear that that little spark would ignite tile atie magazine upon adich I 1 he world stood only a few fontno ago an our laud land was at chevery the very zenith of prosperity there were peace and plenty everything was wad moving forward apparently with banners flying a d with the music keeping step to the onward progress of the world how short a alu e did it take to bring about a very different state maate ot of affair bl how remarkably sudden was the change could it be otherwise we stand today in salt ball lake city and we talk over the telephone wire to a man a hundred miles away and we recognize his hie voice we go to the telegraph office offic in the morning and we send a cablegram to liverpool england und and before the boing down u ui the sun aun we receive a reply we start atari from salt lake city today and we land in the old world in ue me short abort a time as it took us a few years eara ago to KO go from here to the missouri river we rad r ad in to tonight nights Is paper of events that abat aired this morning in the furthermost parts of the earth this all demonstrates that the world is moving very rapidly it does no take years and years yearn t bring about a crisis finan n nan bially politically socially or other they invade our blumes flumes before we know it the watchmen upon the towers lowers in the financial world gave us ua to understand that it was wae only a flurry and that it would be over in a week or two well it may be that it will not last laet as long ionic ws a some antici anticipate patt but are we prepared e d tor for that which will toll toil w after are we in a position po to meet the next wave that shall nome come let its ite character be what it will I 1 believe the latter day are in a better position to meet it than the balance 0 we the world but are we to in the pos positing itin that the lord desires us ue to be in we have bare been told ever since the location of the latter day saints in these valleys valley of the mountains moun taina that there ball come into our midst not dot alone a cami famine DO for money buta but a so eo a famine faint no for bread I 1 knew that it is ie easy eaby enough for us to argue that we nave have a bunte bunt oue sous harvest barvest that grain throughout the entire country Is cheaper today than ever that it to Is a drug on the market anti and that there la Is no sale aale for it possibly therein lies the great danger but abundant as aa the harvests harvea tB are as ac easily an ae they can be transported from one of the land to the other as aa numerous and as perfect as the appliances are which exist for the supply of the human family with food the echo has scarcely arcely ec died out in our ean of the claw clam r of the hungry mob in one of our neighboring cities for broad bread when the he municipal I 1 and state authorities author itle had bad to estat illeth where they could got get food to prevent them from looting the city and yet within a few hours ride of denver there were thousands and thousands of bushels of grain and all the necessaries of life how easily these things can come upon uel are we prepared for them there is an official appointed by the municipality of the olty city of new york whose duty duly it is ia to compile statistic of the tood food au supply p of that city and he startled the people a short time avo ao by notifying them his hia statistics that it if the lines of communication that carry the supplies supplied into that city were discon decked and DO food carried within the boundaries of now new york it would require just juat four days to use up all the food that they had certainly not much preparation for a time 0 scarcity tyl although it would seem i credible that such an event should transpire in the midst of such bounteous harvests as we have at the present time I 1 believe it behooves the latter day saints to act wisely aud and prudently and look forward for such a lime and be prepared for it in tola coi we may read in the daily papers of the thousands of men who have been thrown out ot of employment in our midst our ht tre ete it is scarcely an exaggeration to say are thronged thron ged with them and their numbers are increasing day by jay day the season of labor wherein where n working men provide themselves with food for the coming winter has almost kone gone by the result will be that when winter wl uter comes there will be hund hundreds redig of people in our as there will be in iii all this broad land woo who will have made no provision if r their families now it behooves every wide who and thoughtful oti citi zen to give employment to every miu man that he possibly can that those whom be thus employ may be able to provide with booi and oh shelter elter it also behooves the laboring people to act wisely and prudently they rhey should be Batic fled fied with such waxes as men can pay in tile preterit pre bot serit depressed condition ut at busin tse ae and not BB V they will not engage in work unless they uan can get the work and the price that thai suit them that la Is a grave mistake to make and will bring ble bie to the hearthstones hearth stones of those who indulge in it ir those who can furnish employment should oo do so as far as possible those hose who desire employment should be satisfied with the wages that the eim can aford afford to pay the fact stathe clr the great majority of men engaged io in business busi nees tit at the present time can scarcely afford to pay any wages waged rhose af us who have lived here for a quarter of a |