Show SERVICES aug pm the meeting was called to order by counselor C F middleton the choir sang the hymn co e holy ghost elder joseph hall invoked the blessings of the almighty and the choir delivered the hymn before dehos throne after sacrament was administered PATRIARCH arose to address the congregation he acknowledged his to the heavenly father for the privilege ol 01 bearing his testimony to alie truth of the everlasting gospel although with the concomitants of old age ill health and old age he yet spoke earnestly of his experience in preaching the gospel among the people recounting the great inconveniences ho had to en dure traveling not only without purse and scrip but often without shoes and stockings it gave him great joy hat bod had promised him to livo to the high old age of seventy seven years amona uis saints ho exhorted the S eints to diligence in keeping the commandments command monts of god realizing that important events were near at hand and we had a mighty work to perform APOSTLE F D followed with an impressive address after aret endorsing he remarks ot elder which had given him great pleasure the power of god had been manifest by a man of o little worldly learning as elder it and yet of so great influence in preaching the gospel n plainness to the honest in heart and baptizing many hundreds into the church richards then spoke in hi usual fatherly manner to the saints calling their attention to the signs of the times and showing that the purposes of god were ripening fast the saints therefore should be watchful and prayerful and eschew nil ein and iniquity nor hide it up the scriptural passage char ity hidegh a multitude of tins was not a correct translation it ought to read instead charity prevent eth a multitude of sins it ought to ie the study of the saints to prevent the various evils winch may araia in the r eidl and not be par takers thereof A while ago the speaker with gome gentlemen cent lemen who spoke our family relations referring lo 10 plural marriage they had done so in disparagement as though it were u lascivious institution but ho had vindicated Is cause and eiben them plainly io understand that it WM an institution from heaven and krould filially be triumphant the decision of tho U S supreme court notwithstanding the speaker further showed forcibly the tion and declared that god biad already commenced that great work which would bring about the restoration fit all things the saint are admonished to read understandingly tho book of doctrine and loven iiii there they would find what the lord had ro veiled to his servant joseph smith the prop liet all that was written there verily be fil illta in its own due etnie apostle richards also referred to and am religion founded in in the seventh century after christ coming to of the children of the saints apostle cioban WM happy to abato that afsa y with alio outside loyld both in their physical and in mental and moral status af to utah territory becoming a aister state in the union this did not hian much when wo mere alono in those valleys ol 01 the moua bains wo had none of those evils which now beset us and if ye again let alone wo would soon be rid of them again another blessing wo only in a territory when tho war between tho north and the south broke aul arst young then had sent word to tha president of tho united states ho need not ms cir to take our young men fumy but if fortifications for protection alie indians were needed he would build them tho whole was highly instructive and edifying and listened to with tho n atter a beautiful anthem frell performed by the choir rider dismissed the congregation aith benediction |