Show rR I 1 NACLE I 1 ftc irl to 1 6 li I 1 ch 11 a am in the file us usual quill services in connection ion with the chuich church of jesus christ of latter laffer day dat saints iver 1 0 held in lie the Ta tabernacle bernae e in this city yeter ye yesterday ter day morning lg president L W shurtliff Shurl liH pl presiding pre eald sidiny the meeting being called to order 1 ident C filid Fi mid bleton th e opening hymn atho I 1 cliv lp grea t ott attend while li ile zion still sings 1 pra prayer er was ed by elder JI joseph ai 1 p ll 11 I 1 hall the clio choir ir sang lay wo who know tile joyful sound uld the sacrament of the lords i supper was then administered by 1 the officers liccia of of the second ward I 1 addressed addre sed the meeting As lk a basis b 1 J on which to found his remarks he be quoted the words of jesus when who t P codray ray say our father who n art r 1 in heaven leaven hallowed he lie thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is done in heaven he lie supposed d that in alio ta 0 english language there could not be found expressed in so few words so many sublime ideas ideis and such cx rm ten stive instruction to the hundall family the speaker then entered citte red fully into his discourse advin howing 0 the relationship the human family sus tain to god and his son soil jesus christ showing also that mankind arc are of one family and owe their parentage to one 0 n 0 common father quotations from the holy scriptures P were made to prove this position notably among them being behig the statement ine of one of the apos ties that jesus was the tile first born among many brethren in another place they read we have fathers of our out bodies and we give them reverence shall we not much more reverence the father of our spirits and lives all men and find women existing in tho the probation lauve had bad a prior existence oa on one occasion the tile urd lord s speaking peaking to job eaid said where wast thou when the mornin morning stars sang for joy before the foundations of earth w were ere laid the almighty here called jobs attention to the time when his family had as to rejoice over the prospect of tho earth coming corning into existence and of their having havin a the privilege of coming comin down uron u io n it to take bodies of flesh and 0 01 f bone bolle they read in tho tile book of abraham that theford revealed un servant that the spirits of all men before fo rethey they come to the earth dwelled in in his plesence and that they had their I 1 I 1 agencies agencies ai intelligent an an 1 I ebern eternal al beings in ili connection connection with this subject 12 elder taylor referred to pr edistina i 1 tion remarking that god judging from their acts selected certain men t to perform certain works in the various rious dispensations lie would establish upon the earth bence whom god foreknow foreknew fore fize knew said the apostle them lie also did predestinate and these were those whom vl iorii god had tried and proved to be true his government and to his righteous principles pru sciples aci ples they were informed that jesus christ was as a lamb slain before the foundations of the world and here they found that thit all matters pertaining to this earth the fall of man his redemption demp tion the redemption of the earth ea rth and the final exaltation of the carthand earth and all mankind were understood der stood at the beginning the fact that they could not recollect these matters did aothia not in any ny degree warrant their doubt in ill the principles the speaker logically logic ally argued that many events had taken place in their childhood child hod such as 13 their birth which they had no more recollection recal lection of than if it had never occurred tho tile speaker related many remarkable instances of persons who bad lost all recollection of past abt events through shocks to their physical system while after their recovery they retained full possession of their faculties this went to prove that the influence of the body prevented the spirits from recolleCt recollecting ilIg their prior existence there was one prevailing sentiment uttered in the text thy willo god be done upon the earth as it la is done in Il heaven caveD he ile asked why it should not be done the s speaker eak then referred to gods will E being g done as against the will of mankind miu kind showing shown i g that the will of the latter was influenced by circumstances and the will of the former was paramount above all ali other wills he ile maintained that tho the spirit of the operations erat ions ious of the tabernacle was kept grinding at the will of mammon y year ear afi after e r year and all their lifetime U me their best energies put forth in the pursuit of money to the tile L sacrifice ac of heal health tir of high and libl holy principle in in ID OPPOSition to tho the will of god as expressed by divine authority to them this led him to ask what is divine abt authority hority to them aa as latter day saints the word of gods appointed priesthood was all sufficient and in a word was the will of agod A quotation on oil thi this s subject J a from discourse delivered by the late apostle orson pratt in 1870 1876 from that stand was read by elder taylor in concluding his address to sustain the position he was taking the quotation was full if of teachings that it was the will of pod for them to be obedient to his servants in all things in this dispensation 11 8 pensa tion the choir sang an fill anthem and the services closed with benediction by elder lip monch |