Show sunday do lt 11 after prayer and sing singing irig elder james A little addressed the file ou greg gre gation UtiOn inferred tu to t the a anniversary of the tile birth hirth nf the savior and asked the indulge indulgence of altho the audi audience coce in referring also toche prophet Jos joseph epli who was b rn in in Verni vermont ont 76 years ago izo ant at friday there was it no great stir in the tc world when he lie wan wa born but heas w was born to n make ke a stir in conformity y with the passage he ille that tha t I ackett wisdom let him ask of god who g veth unto all men liberally and not he lie went into the woods to pray for knowledge as to which of all the religious sects of the world was right and in answer god and liis his son jesus appeared to him in the clouds and told him none were correct the speaker speak c r did not wish to dwell at length on the incidents which followed hut but joseph o ep i smith had seen a vision va years passed tin until til the of sept 1823 when joseph saw in his room an angel which was moroni byh who told the lad ad the lord had much for him to perform also telling him of a book hid away in the hill cumorah on the following day the prophet boy visited the hill bill and with the an angel anel el aw saw the tile plates upon which were written the book of monnon mormon and for three years following once each year joseph visited this place with the angels what must have been the feeling of the tile roan man who stood upon that spot with the tile holy angel whose people had been destroyed for arp ages ft and left nothing but their history which had slumbered in the dust for centuries here the speaker referred to many bible prophecies which bore on the subject of tho the finding of these plates and showed how bow truth was to spring from front earth and righteousness from heaven the speaker showed that the book of morata was truth and that the power of the priesthood which was brought to the earth and conferred upon the prophet by the angel was the gos pel righteousness which the angel flying through the midst ot of heaven ven was to bring to the nations of tho earth he ile also demonstrated that joseph was fore forc by god to be the shepherd of the latter at times as we read of in the prophets he ile is the great gatherer of the latter days and as the result of liis his labors wo we are here today to day elder little referred to the prophecy in the I ath chapter of Ittu loadah all stating vrho who the persons defered to torn in that chapter cli apter was and showing that jos josph were one of them he lie devoted some time tinie showing from the book of mormon who joseph smith was that he lie was the ono one wl om tho the people prayed to have preserved that he lie might come forth in due flue time to perform the labor of god to bring forth the book the writings of which were to run together with the Bible to confound the false doctrines of latter times he ile bore a faithful testimony founded on the fulfilment fulfillment of prophecy to the divino mission sion of the prophet joseph and the authenticity of the book ot of mormon with a prayer for god s blessing to rest upon the saints of ogdan the speaker closed liis his instructive address the tile choir sang ng an anthem and the benediction was pronounced by elder edwin stanford |