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Show 'CONGRESSMAN- ELECT SPEAKER IT IE TABERNACLE America, as the land set apart by i the Master of the universe for the dwelling place of a free people through : the everlasting ages, was the theme ; of an eloquent discourse delivered yesterday yes-terday afternoon in the Tabernacle by ' nngreurnan-elect M. H Welling, president of the Bear River stake of Zlon The service, of which th ier-i ier-i mon was the principal feature, was j conducted by Elder T Samuel Brown Ing of the Tabernacle committee, and , was attended by a large congregation of Ogden and Weber county people. The musical program, rendered under un-der the direction of Prof Joseph Bal lantyne. was, as usual, highlv pleasing pleas-ing and appropriate, the selections being be-ing as follows Organ prelude Sam F. Whltaker Duet, 'He Shall Feed His Flock Mrs. Mystle Hlgley and Miss Mildred Ware. Duel and chorus, "The Angel Gabriel" Leslie Savllle, Douglas Brian and Tabernacle Tab-ernacle choir Solo, "The Lord Is Mv Light." . . Mildred Ware Solo and chorus, Nazareth . Robert Binnie and choir 'rgan postlude Sam F. Whitaker President Welling was manifestlv impressed by the- soulfulness of the 1 music and prefaced his discourse with a fine compliment to the Tabernacle choir and Prof. Ballantyne, saying that j if the people of the community could rightlv appreciate their opportunity to hai such music as that to which he had Just listened, the houses of worship wor-ship would be filled each Sunday. He introduced his theme by reading a lew lines from the noted sermon of William ML Ivins of New York on "The Soul of America," in which that evan lii declared that to comprehend the soul of America was to compre hend the spirit and purpose of all Americans of past and present. Paraphrasing Par-aphrasing this, the speaker said that to know the soul of America, a person per-son must -udy the dealings of God wnh i he people who lived on this continent con-tinent ages ago The record of these dealings, he declared, were to be found in that record of modern revelation, rev-elation, the Book of Mormon Continuing and basing his remarks on the content of the Book of Mormon, Mor-mon, he stated that the people of Jared, who came to this kind under divine cuidance, followed the confu sion of tongues of biblical record, were the firt people tor whom America Amer-ica was consecrated as the abode for a free and liberty loving people Pur-BUing Pur-BUing the narrative he told of the falling of the Jaredites from the teaching teach-ing of Cod and of the great civil war .n which all but the record keeper, the Prophet Ether, were exterminated. extermi-nated. Then came Lehi and his family, the progenitors of the American Indian, in the days of whom was lirsi preached preach-ed the doctrine that the consent of the governed by majority vote was necessary for the establishment of a iree Kovernmeni tor in- people ut these people, too. wandered away, from righteousness and through wars) and cataclysms all but a few members of the Lamanite branch of the family were killed and these became wanderers wander-ers upon the earth ontinuinR. President Welling re-viewed re-viewed the ancient history of Ameri-ca, Ameri-ca, particularly that oi Mexico, and al60 that following the discovery of ' America by Columbus. This discov- j sry was not an accident, he said, it was Inevitable and the time bad come i when God felt that this land should1 again be established as the abiding: place of liberty. The speaker paid impressive trib-' ute to the men who established the1 constitution of the United States and : ban since upheld it and said it had been a wonderful blessing to the peo- I pie of all nations who had come here I to live. The Mormon people, he declared, ! had been particularly blessed, and in conclusion he urged the young men of the church to do away with Blothful-ness Blothful-ness and light-mindedness and to gird up their loins and live worthy of the inheritance they had received. |
