Show NEW NEV YEAR MARKED BY DY CONFIDENCE I I Financial Stringency Passing With Old Year Says Tali- Tali Speaker Speake UPHOLDS BOOK OF MORMON George E Richards Tells How HowEn i En Error or is Possible in Translating Trans TiTans lating Bible I I Services Ser at the tabernacle clo Y ty wore were largely lRI In the order of oC a Christmas Christmas Christ ChrIst- mas and New Years Year's celebration llon combined com corn A special musical program was rendered ron ron- dered l hy y an nn fl extra largo large choir Among Amon the thC numbers were Oh nU At of or Holiness Holi IToh- and ness nes and Christmas Tidings tho women of or tho the choir san sang A Christmas Christ Christ- mas Story The auditorium was al almost al ai- 1110 most moct t completely The Time speakers were George Georgo A. A t. t Smith George GcorGe i 1 E. E Richards Rich ards and John Henry IJ nr Smith The Tho benediction bene hone diction was pronounced b by Heber J J. ci rantS Grant George A. A 4 o Smith spoke on What we 0 owe to th l nation m Ho lie said In Ol part h lu last t Sunday of the time year tho the mind naturally turns to reflect rl on the history of the tho Christian people and tho the circumstances that have surrounded surround surround- ed them since the beginning of ot the Christian era a. Wo We v see c everywhere every every- n where from the tho slave to the tho highest throne Tho The Jews ns be began hean an It was from their midst that th the Savior of man conic cr Wo We received tho the Old and und New Testaments from them and still they thoy art are scorned Christianity Itself has heap leaped heaped d untold misery upon the tho heads booths of the Jewish Jo people Tho The day will c come me mc however and wo we hope in our out da day when the race will see the Son of God and will believe t in Jesus Christ Christas t as os the tho Savior and Redeemer of nine man mail let ct u us 3 all examine ourselves es spiritual spiritual- lv h y and morally let us all nil be le honorable men and women and live lI a life of righteousness the coming year In Mr contrasted tho the Bible m I with tIme the Book of Mormon Many I translations in the Bible ho said have ha discrepancies which arc beyond the tho power lower of man to decipher r This is not so with the Book of Mormon The Book hook of or Mormon ormon is IR not Hot derived delI 1 from readings s of or the Old and New ew Testaments Tes Tes- taments but by direct revelation re from God I I Genesis sa says s 's God cr created Lt man in Ills own image imag-c Man ran alone is disobedient disobedient dis dla- obedient to to His ills commandments and this 1 Is through mans man's own A agency cne Yet all power is given n the Divine lne over heaven and earth The of oC song sonS and praise should b bo be during luring this tills Christmas ChrIstmastide tide saM said John Henry Henr Smith Tho Thu year that thal is iR Just passing has been a n wonderful one Great GroM things thinG's have been accomplished Then Ihen like 0 a thunderbolt thunderbolt thunderbolt thunder thunder- bolt from a clear sIt sky came camo the spirit of or unrest anti and uncertainty upon tho the people of or this and other countries The material blessings of or thousands were Thousands of or others we were o startled at this great uncertainty for or they knew not when it might reach them Confidence I IN Is Confidence glorified by the birthday t. t agaIn returning upon these thousands by 1 the coming coming- of f the new year It Is not my my p purpose to upon the subject but i glorify in the ner In the time past paNt year no ono one has hu gono flone needy if we knew of the and the time world is II better and will continue continuo to gro grow better for our having lived lI May the tho blessings H Hof of the thc coming corning year attend you ou He lIe then offered prayer for tho the Godspeed God speed and well ehl doing of It tho the governing Jo body of the tho land |