Show A SWEEPING prediction THE present generation is ia growing so BO infidel in tendency that it Is ia becoming fashionable to repudiate god and drive him out of 04 every department part ment of life there is a large class ready to become red eyed with rage at the mere suggestion that the almighty interferes in any shape with the be affairs of men and nations nation so impatient are they at every exhibition hibi tion of religious faith and sentiment one phase of religious conviction specially disturbs the equanimity of the unbelieving claw class that calamity is in any way associated with the judgment of god or is an indication that he is pleading with the people this unreasonable and bigoted sentiment gives an idea of how the prophets were regarded in ancient times by the same element and shows plainly that they would have fared just as roughly had bad they lived in these enlightened times as they denounced wickedness and directed popular attention to the hand of god manifested by chastisement if a mormon elder points a moral in the same direction he is denounced as a fool a fanatic and worse yet what he refers to may be facts that have transpired in exact fulfilment fulfillment of the predictions made concerning this generation by joseph smith in whose divine mission he believes it happens just now that a good many influential people haab cavere I 1 re bently undergone an awakening process by some of the events that have occurred ah the rev dr hannon in addressing a congregation comprising several hundred members odthe of the young mens christian association of san francisco and speaking ng atthe johnstown and seattle said they are terrible startling messages from god the topic of the meeting was the lessons drawn from recent disasters he exclaimed they are the handwriting on the wall awall but we must maist remember that while he writes with his right hand he places his lri other hand lovingly about us there is as much of gods mercy iw in these disasters as in the sunshine that pours upon our plains hut but we cannot see it in that way we have haie been warned to prepare for death and we ought to get ready to enjoy the bounty of heaven get ready my friends it to is the voice of god speaking to you you and I 1 must get ready that is the one great lesson to be learned from the terrible disaster at johnstown even at this time we are blundering along and not making ready X the reverend gentleman lost sight of the fact for the moment that it is only mormons cormons Mor mons who believe in prophets and the gift of pro prophecy pheby fy it being fashionable even among religionists to declare that these bave been done away evidently forgetting this fact he wound aphis up his discourse with a sweeping prediction concerning the chief city of the pacific coast we give it hew here weare we are warne warned devery every daythan day abat sooner or later the black river of death will sweep over san ban francisco and every moth mothers erli son of you will be swept out into the sea you must get ready for the disaster that is cureto come tidal waves the sea heaving itself beyond its bounds have beau named by the great prophet joseph smith as 0 a prominent phenomenal means of deat euHon in these days this being the casp cam dr hannon may be nearer the ae truth than most people would be inclined to belleve believe as 48 san francisco Franc teco is by no means ye downed for righteousness marriage Is never nevar a failure jhb n the contracting parties are am a awu and a woman 1 |