| Show sunday services religious services icee were held at the tabernacle sunday sept ath counselor charles W penrose presiding the choir sang come we that love the lord and let our oar joys be known prayer by elder milando pratt the choir sang great god indulge my humble claim thou art my hope my joy my rest the priesthood of the sixth ward officiated in the administration of the sacrament ELDER CHARLES W STAYNER addressed the congregation the gospel of christ he remarked is a prolific prolific theme and is as beautiful as F it t is important we may touch upon any part of this divine subject and find in it something worth learning I 1 have sometimes thought that if mankind would but study the symbolism of the sacred writings the types and the shadows which are so apparent in all the ordinances and ceremonies of the church under the influence of a desire to learn the ways of gouthey god they could not hel help believing e the truth there is so much uch consistency and 8 so 0 much beauty in all those symbols and types as manifested to us in the history of the past in in regard to tae the simple ordinance of baptism which perhaps to certain extra practical minds might seem nonessential non essential some might say Is it not sufficient that we repent and desire to live a more perfect life why is it necessary that we should enter the waters of baptism and be immersed beneath the liquid wave paul gives us a beautiful fill idea in speaking upon this subject when he says we we eye buried with christ in baptism and being buried in the likeness of his death so shall we be in the likeness of his resurrection christ seems to have typified in his own death and resurrection the church of christ the church established by the savior met the same fate that he himself suffered by his crucifixion he typified the sacrifice of the church of god indis day through the malevolence doubts opposition iou and virulent persecutions of that time the world was apparently parent ly determined to exterminate the people of god who lived in that age some of the disciples they crucified some pome they sawed asunder some they be headed oth others irs they hurled from the pinnacles of the temple not only the apostles but their followers the saints were sacrificed until the priesthood the authority of heaven to minister in those sacred ordinances which were i appointed pointed kp for the salvation of mankind was caught up as seen by st john the divine in his vision this persecution of the church in the meridian of time was in fulfil fulfill ment of the sayings of the savior he told his disciples if they kill me they will kill you if tb they ey persecute me they will persecute you for the servant shall not dot be greater than lis ills lord AU all the derl derision sion the persecution the hatred and the opposition with which christ met were visited upon his followers alter after his crucifixion until finally not dot an apostle not a high priest not a seventy not an elder not even the authorities of the priesthood which had existed for centuries before christ could be found upon the eastern hemisphere the priesthood was literally caught up into heaven like afke unto jesus himself jesus fulfilled the types which had preceded his time but while doing this he typified things which were yet to come all those sacrifices which had been offered by the high priests of the order were a similitude merely of the sacrifice flee of the son of god as revealed to adam when he be was commanded to offer a sacrifice after he had been cast out from the garden of eden for transgression it is very evident to my mind that all the blood of the animal creation combined if it could have been brought together and offered as a sa sacrifice crince upon the altar would not have atoned fo for r the sin of adam but it had bad its object in drawing the attention of the people who lived in those primitive times to the coming of the e lord who should be a perfect sacrifice offering himself as the lamb slain from the foundation of the world upon the altar of dods love we can see how bow the priesthood who offered these sacrifices officiated only in temporal things and typified earthly conditions from the fact that they offered unwilling sacrifices rif animals were caught in their native haunts and bound and slain as unai unwilling sac sacrifices rifles much as we through our earthly natures suffer unwillingly the sorrows which are placed upon us by providence for the purposes of salvation how different was the sacrifice which christ offered when he came as the great high priest after the order of 11 a priesthood which typifies heavenly things thin things s which axe are spiritual and anguring enduring what an example is this to those who hold the priesthood in our time ordained to this heavenly calling should not we offer ourselves continually as a willing sacrifice before the throne of heaven for the salvation of mankind and thus follow the savior in the greatest act of his I 1 life fe christ also typified by his resurrection from the sepulchre the great victory of his church when it should be restored when in the latter times according to the words of all the ancient prophets god would set his hand t the e second time to gather the remnant of his people from all the nations of the carthand eart hand band they should flee upon the shoulders of the philistines towards the west the world may rage and misunderstand this people ridicule and suppose that we are in error may think we are deluded because of our belief but this does not do away with the fact that it Is the gospel of christ typified by himself and destined to attain the same glory and victory let us ua trust in the arm of god this Is io his work it Is not our church it is not a man made 6 system 6 tem it is not an invent invention loil of w 70 joseph 8 edw smith added to by he schemes of brigham young M sometimes charged by the wormy worlds it is the revelation of heaven tt ik to 16 the principle of divine cruthi truth is the means of salvation it AST all people I 1 le god has set effis hancil hand the te second time to vic ao com this work and has declared ue that he will be victorious victori in 10 it that this church will never ie be thrown down but that it will stand for ever upon those broad land fal mental principles of which davs been portrayed ib by um the prophets since the world be bel this is the restored or oraa as it VF the resurrected church or body of ef s cb christ rist and although it may got aone times appear about to be over whelm w helmed whelmed ed although it may be buried beneath the waves of popular opposition X and prejudice yet it rise again from such baptisms fled and cleansed and walking in new ne ness ners of life continue co nar ue to gain power until it is glorified like abo to son son of god eternally ELDER ELDEB GEORGE G desired to bear his h humble u able tes testimony timoor to what had been said bald by the previous speaker the testimony af abo lord is sure and mabeth liae the simple mankind are the representatives senta tives as individuals of their great prototype and archo archetype type we have been created in his tan hp age he has implanted within us the germs of his own divine and eternal attributes we have not been thrown together by accident our existence to is not ft a fortuitous one we are here as the result of law of design in fulfil fulfill ment of a divine gramme pro and for the accomplishment of the work incidental to the development thereof therefore we cannot fall fail in the purposes for which we have been created unless we refuse to the law of the lord which is perfect and conver teth the soul or reject the testimony of the lord which Ima mabeth keth wise the simple the gospel of jesus cb christ rist whose 11 life fe and su sufferings flerl and d death eat h w we e have commemorated this afternoon atoa alm his glorious resurrection embodies the law of god to man these grod great movements which are wrought brou through h the agency of the 8 sn wi 1 of almighty god the in 1 that has accompanied the promulgation of the principles principle of righteousness and eternal truth in all ages of the world is the only potent power the only effective agent that ifil win bring to pass the full and com complete unfolding or development of man in all his heavenly endowed attributes and divine gifts the law of the lord will convert every soul that will live in harmony with its requirements require mente and respond to its dictates that testimony is divine and sure because it is pure and holy the representation of the eternal and united principles ties which emanate from G god an and is the source of here and hereafter the choir sang the anthem daughter of zion awake from thy sadness benediction by elder parley P V pratt |
