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Show ' " Sunday Services. Uro i A. Molvillo was tho first speaker. He raid In part: "I inn glnd to bo with you ngalu nnd to partake of tho spirit of your meetings. 8lnce tbo grout cnlnmlty on tho Pacific coast I hnvo boon thinking of tbtDK" novor thought of before. I wns In Salt Lnko whon tho nows of tho disaster ronohod thoro. Itsoomod to ciist mgloom ovor tho city and my thouf?hts wont bnok tojtho timo whon tho email bond of Mormons loft thoir homos Id tbo Enst, braved tbo porils of tbo prairies and mountains to And n plnoo whoro thoy could worship UioirGodnstboy saw fit. Somo in tho company wanted to go on to California Cali-fornia to settle. Tho land thoro wus bottor, did not noed tho cultivation thret it needed in Utuh and was moro productive, but Pros. Young said this U tho place and tho calnmlty thnt bas just happoued thoro is additional ovldonoo to mo thnt ho wns inepirod "whon picking tho spot on which to ottlo. !Pro8. Young reoognlzod tho .situation, .situa-tion, lie saw that if wo woro living on tho Paalflo wo would mix with tho world nnd would be lufluoiiood by ' thoir Inuflencos. Thoro it would bo impossible-' to do our duty as Latter Eny Saints. Wo would bo in tho rnco for pecuniary gain. Tho great disaster is nlso ov(donoo to mo of tho infoiiorlty of mnu whon 'trying to depend upon himself. Horoln Utuh tho peoplo nro safo, but if disasters do visit us wo who live llvos of Lnttor Dny Saints to tho best of our ability will hnvoarownrd "that cannot bo destroyed by any person or thing but oursolvos." A. L. Nod said, "Benj. Franklin ouoo reoolvod a manuscript from a noted Infidel putting forth his idons on roligion. After ho hnd rend it over ho sent it buck with this comment: com-ment: 'If tho world is so bud with -religion how much worso would it bo without it.' If tho peoplo only oould concoivo whut tho world would bo without tho inspiring, uplifting lailuouco of roligion thoy would obnugo thier minds. The influonco of tbo ohruch is not as groat as it should bo, nud this is also true of tho family and sohool. No agont Is doiugvfthnt it should do, H0 thjhk of the possibility ofWoSWd'inYdcl And ftiun to thluc of the aouSl condition of it. I am often xomiadod of tho saying that as God is, .man mny beaomo. In thinking think-ing of iho possibilities of man in the short timo ho 1b allowed to stay on this spboce.of action nnd thou of his possibilities vworo ho nblo to stay horo 50,000 years, it does not soometraugo that ho would bocomo as God is. Uften F go up on tho Sugar Loaf and there look .ovor St. Goorgo and think of its opportunities, possibilities possibili-ties nnd its condition. I know tbnt thoro are many good, industrious peoplo la this town, thoso who will benefit tbo town and ovorybody in it and thero aro also tho opposite Wo aro subject to fowor temptations tempta-tions in a plaoo liko thia than iu a larger city. Tbo condition of nifairs in Son Franoisoo surprised mo very muoh. Thoro 1 saw tho peoplo using Sunday as a day of nmusomont rather than a day of rest. All tho play houses, good and bad, woro opon and doing good business. It is possiblo in n placo liko this to hnvo a tnodol community which is not possiblo iu a larger oity, but tho pooplo do not hnvo tho co-oporntivo spirit that thoy should havo." J. T. Atkin roforrod to tho destruction destruc-tion of Sodom nnd Gnmora and illustrated it by roforring to tho gront calnmlty that hus just befallen California. Cali-fornia. Said California is a bouutiful couutry. Many ' good pooplo livo thero, though thoy aro indiiroront in regard to roligmn. Pooplo nro thoro to enjoy lifo and thoy do it all tho timo, especially Sundays. |