Show BENJAMIN h liD liDON ON MISSION WORK Iy Elder Addresses Sunday Tabernacle Tabernacle Tabernacle Tab Tab- Congregation on Polynesians I WORK NORK IN FOREIGN LANDS I Speaker r Connection of if Pacific S Islanders 1 la mh With i I Je Accord I UK n I Ii to 10 Hook of Mormon i I At time the tabernacle Sunday afternoon Elder Elter fri addressed a I large arge e congregation on In ml missionary I As A Mr leaves lave In iii a afew few ow ew days lo to perform a mission in to tl tin tin- 1 I remarks centered eon cen n his hits South Sea Islands oreti principally around the people I Iwho who Inhabit that part of the th world The Flue speaker related somo comae mo of or his ix- ix x- x on his first visit to tho the Pol Poly Poly- ne lans and amI spoke of lh their lr character character- sties and traditions He lIe le classed time the therace race raco as a n par part of cit the Israelite naton nation ant tad and fu Illustrated their relationship U tt Uthe II the lie Book of Mormon hl history tor Time The opening song by hy the time choir wa was SWI Sweet t Is time the ord Word Vord l My God M My King ICing Prayer r was offered by ly Elder urge George II It n. n Emery Time The choir sang ng nger Were Vet er Not Ashamed to 0 Own Our Oui Lord Lorl Mr Goddard was tho tIme only emily speaker occupying about an hour with wih his ad nil- dress He lie stated In the thu bl beginning that In n making preparations for his mission miRlon to tu tie the South Sea Hen islands lands 1 his mind had hat dwelt twel on the lw subject of lonaY work more than upon an any aimy other Ii in Iii the Lite last 1st few fe weeks weel anti and that he 11 desired de do- sired mired ti to lo express himself on num 01 that thal sub sub- subJect b Jet COt In fri his last 11 t address before home ionic He lie read from ruin the New Nett Testa ml nl regarding the l experiences of nl nils nils- sent out h by Jesus Christ t. t am and compared ha lb those those ose experiences s Wi with Uh Ii the tw experiences of or Mormon elders r who have ave gone abroad to preach each In these latter atter latr times times- He lie spoke of the tire ices flees made inathe and anti time the harl hardships undergone under gone one In tn the work worl of or tho time mu ministry am and andor of or r the tho blessings which he said Mil hud had nl iii- al- al ways followed those who were weme faith faith- ful in tho time labors s they were cale called upon to Lo 0 do Fulfillment of ut Mr Goddard said iL that lint the calling of or missionaries to preach the gospe I In n tho la last t days was wa a fulfillment o oh of th this ancient indent prophecy In lii referring to ii coming of the Savior he lie sail aill that hat the gospel must be to lo ul ull al nations aliens before that thal event vent should han happen hap ha- pen n as US al l recorded In scripture Th rh speaker said alt that this title requirement 1 b i being icing met by the time Latter Day Saints and that hat the thou thousands ands of am mi mission lun- lun los arles which that church Is Js sending on onate out ate are ie preparing the way tay tot for fo the comin coming of or f Christ Christ He lie related tho tIme first call cail ais made for or Mormon missionaries in lii th thc early earl hl history tOy of uC the church and of ot th thC great t work worl which had grown from fron those hose early mI ml missions Turning his attention lo to ii time the Poly Poi meslan rJ people he lit w saul said all that afler aftem- ex extensive ext ex- ex t stud study there jio no nn doubt i lii In hl his mis mind amid th that thAi t tho the race nl was a branch of f the House of Israel Tsi-aeh which at wa vae scattered ca rec In ancient days da He lie said Mit that tha these hose e IWO people I. I were distinct anti and apar from flom the tl Malay Inlay races ICS IC'S who wil came caine from fron roam African territory I I He Eu quoted this the Hook Hoo I of if Mormon hi history which thi he said gives ci ues a clear r and amid definite ni It understand understandIng ii Ing of the hut elgin of or the lie South Hl Sea Is Islanders Is- Is landers I lt IIo Ic f said that lint they 1103 were it c a branch of or the tw who vImo left lef Jeru Jeru- Jerusalem salem aIm COO GUO years before Christ am ani landed on t tIme the e South American J cont- cont lh the time record show From Flom n that thal th they w went nt into Inlo the tIme narrow of land which Is taken to mean aim time thi isthmus of Panama Including Central Centra America and a n part pall of Mexico J From Fromn this his point the tho tl speaker stated that ac according ic- ic C- C ding cording to o the thc Hook Book of Mormon the people SOt set tl Sail nl on tIme the great nt sea sen seu to tim tl tin tw west Vest west and anti were wen never more mon heal heard fron flom b by y their Itch Elder Gu Goddard stated that lie tho lions on of Ct the time Polynesian people anti and the lie tw results of careful historical In lion on oil limit part of oC learned learl d men of oC time the world orid substantiated the tIme account giver given Iven of f th the lie In the tho hook Bool of Mormon Mrs Ll Lizzie l Thomas Edwards am and an the lie tl choir choh sang an anthem omit entitled When hn Thou Contest st to tu Judgment after tot l' l which benediction wn was tas ll offered b h bElder by Elder Jh Theodore |