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Show MLUHD TALKS TO PRIESTHOODS' Apostle Tells Hearers That Sin Is Rampant in Worid Today "There nver wa a day since the da of Sodom when there wa so much ln, so much Iniquity as there Is today." Apoti 'Melvtu J. Ballnrd told the member of tho priesthood of the North Wcbr stake yesterday t the ftret Minl-Mnnual convention of the stake held in the Weber Normal college. "The people of thin Cay have received re-ceived great light and arc under great condemnation because they have sinned against that light." the peaker oaid. "God will speak to tho people of tlfla day by war, famines, and pestilence. pes-tilence. A great hailstorm will come upon the earth, destroying one-half of the crop, cauainpr a famine and great distress ami suffering because of the wickedness of the nations." Wotliei-s-poon Presides. President James Wothcrspoon presided pre-sided over the convention that was attended at-tended by about -luO members of the stake priesthood. Apostle Bui lard -expressed his great pleasure at meeting bvich a large assembly of the workers in the stake and read from the- Doctrine Doc-trine and Covenants that those wtio aic fa it hi ul In receiving the priesthood priest-hood and magnify their calling, would iL-ceive tne blessing of God and inheritance in-heritance in tne celestial kingdom. The members of tne priesthood, ho said, give their labors voluntarily because be-cause of their great love Tor the work. The sjmakcr said he recently attended at-tended a meeting uf Baptist minister. and ids soul was luruluU with joy when he found ihey were mideaorin to lalse a huge suui oi money tniougn tho system oi tithing and ihat they were to send Su.'jvu missionaries into the world who were not required to bo educated and who would work without compensation. All this, th; spcuker said, was borrowed rrom the .Mormon cliurch. Tlie lord had rc-ialed rc-ialed this system to us before It was discovered by men. It cost other millions of dollars to discover whaij the Lord had revealed to the l-'rophet Joseph Smith. j Tno members of the priesthood were reminded by the speaker that they were not lu this section of tne' country to s"ee how much land, houses, cattle and other worldly possessions they could acquire. Tne acquiring ot j these things, nc said, were only inol-: dental and a means to an end. Wei are here to build up the church and, kingdom of Uod, to become tho salti of tne earth nnd to raise an ensign tor' the salvation of tho nations of the earth. ( Another Temple. A prediction was muuo by Apootle Ballard tnat tne churcn would at an early dale build a magnificent temple tem-ple In independence. Jackson county, .vllasouri. God, he said, is preparing I the wa and those members of the church who are willing and worthy I will be called into the service for this I work. Joseph Smith was called of God to bring forth a kingdom that would I eventually fill the whole earth, the speaker said. This kingdom, ho said, ! wul be built up by the hard laoor of iho members oi the pnestnood. Abra-iiu'un, Abra-iiu'un, ho said, wouiu havo icjoiced to have lived in this day because It Is tho greatest day in tho history of tlie world. If the members of the priesthood priest-hood w'ill magnify their calling they will Inherit mo kingdom of the e'ather but If tney break ineir covenants they stand In peril of losing all things pertaining per-taining to the ceiostiul kingdom and shail noi hae tnelr sins lorglvcn in this world or in tho world to come. The speaker then called attention to the proper method of administering to the sick, slating that the Lord had revealed the proper method and that those who otficiate In these things snould bo pure and clean and do uil things in tne name ot the Lord and accoidlng to Ills will. liilcrchurch .Movement. Referring to tlie Intcrchurch movement, move-ment, the speaker dcuiaieC lhat it had ended in failure and the whole schemo was wrecked, its promoters, he said, had spent $S.O0U,O0u to collect ?a.0UJ.r 000 and had thus lost $5,000,0U'J. "The spirit that is required to increase in-crease the activity of the priesthood is the spirit of self sacrifice of our fathers, fath-ers, tne speaker told his congregation. Our fathers ,ho said, thought no service serv-ice too great or difficult. They responded re-sponded to tne call In the early days and oy' the spirit of sacrifice and co- operation built up this great state. "Tho Latter-day Saints will solve ilm H i,Tir,,i 1 1 ntz hntu'nnn rnnffnl n n rl labor one hundred years before any other people through the system of tithing that will eventually evolve Into tho grcator law of the united order." He asked the priesthood members if they were paying an honest tithing. If they were not nonest in this law they will never bo ablo to live the higner law of the united order. This order will be established by the leaders lead-ers in the church and from out of the rank and file will be called men nnd women who will demonstrate this great law, he said. j "The Book of .Mormon was given to !tho church for specific purposes and I lhat was that the American Indian might como to a knowledge, of their fathers and a knowlodgc of the gospel and through repentance be saved. "Tho American Indian cannot be converted to tho gospel until they acquire ac-quire a knowledge of tho English language lan-guage and this is being taught them by tne government of the United States which Is also giving unto the ltd man his inheritance, 'j'he day of the redemption of the Indian is near at hand", the speaker said. Their redemption will not bo like ours, but nations will bo born lu a day. I Day of Gentile. "The Jews have not received the gospel because this Is the day of the gentile. But the day of tho gentile la noarly ended and tho JewH will soon 'gather back to their own land where they will accept Christ and His gos-I gos-I pel. Tho day of the gcrrtile, is nearly i fulfilled and tho people will reject the gospel. Some nations have already closed their doors to the gospel, but England had again given permission for the elders of the churcn to onter that county. "There is a wave of 'immorality sweeping over the earth. Germany has broken down, England and France have also broken down. When a world war leaves 10,000.000 more women than men in tho earth a wave of Immorality Im-morality Is the result. lie who in tho great world war was unable to rulo tho world, Is now seeking the ruin of that which he could not rule." oo |