Show tabernacle SERVICES SUNDAY SuzZ DAr oct 2811 28 11 ft a ro the meeting was called to order by prest L W shurtliff choir sang mighty king kinz in zion thou alone our guide shall be prayer by elder joseph hall the choir sang how firm firms a foundation ye saints of the lord Is laid for your falth in his nis excellent word tho the sacrament was irai administered by bishop B C critchlow and assistants si stants ELDER CHAS c BROWN first addressed the meeting he ile said ho he left hia his home in this city in in the fall of 1881 to fill a inis mission sion to the united states he labored there to the best of his ability among the people the lord blessed his labors he found the people there destitute of a know knowledge lede of the gospel p of jesus christ I 1 they believe the principles inci ples and bles blessings singa of the grapel 1 as they existed in the days of the savior are all done away and that they arc are not needed now but this is is not nut the caso case with the latter day saints they believe it is as necessary to abey all the principles of the gospel in in this age of the world as it was anciently and that those wh who 0 o obey the commandments of the tile lord irow aro are as much entitled to the blessings of obedience as they wore yore in former times the speaker then explained the tile principle of true repentance which ho be said was to cease to do evil and do that which is right and pure before the lord lie ile also explained the object of baptism and the laying on of hands bands by the elders men of the church the tile former is for the remiss remission ion of sins and the latter is for the gift of the holy ghost ac tile christian world do not believe in these things and ho lie showed that they have n no authority to administer in these or any of the ordinances of tho t 0 gospel but the lat ter day S sainta ants tl testify that they enjoy the fruits of the tile gospel and that if the people of the w world orld will repent of t their air sins and obey the gospel they will also receive a knowledge for themselves that these things 0 are true ho ile quoted scripture to prove that no man has a right rig lit to preach the gospel except he lie is called of god for that purpose b by revelation aud and that he lie would bo cursed if ho lie preached tiny liny other than the doctrines taught by christ and his apostles Apost lea elder brown said in his missionary sion ary experience in the stales states lie had bad heard of ministers going am among ng the people and if they found them in posse possession ision of a biblo bible the ministers took it and burned buried it and anti told them it was as not riot for the people to read but they must listen to and obey the tile instructions in at ruc of their ministers the speaker said the tile savior commanded the people eople to search the scriptures aut but if the scriptures were ivere taken irom from them by their tl preachers tile people could not search them to know whit they were required to do he ile closed with a p prater rayer that all the latter day saints may over ever remain faithful and true to the work of god which they have embraced ELDER AUSTIN C brow was the next speaker ho ile felthan fel that hoaas he was placed in a very t trying ayi n g et position 1 I when called upon to address ad d r a it congregation aaion of latter day saints and prayed that ho ito might have the spirit of god to guide him on thia this occasion occasion ho ile knows that this is the work of god which lias has been prophesied by the ancient servants of the lord they desired to uvo live on tho the earth inthis day but they died and have passed away th the bespeak speaker said all who have listened listen ed to the instruction odthe of tho E eldera iders can see that this great work is progress ing rapidly and those who have obeyed the gospel have a testimony for fr themselves that it is true we as saints should now endeavor to parity ourselves in thought word and deed from everything that is evil there is only one way in which we can call do this and that is by walking in the straight and narrow path which lead to eternal life those who obe obey the G gospel aspel ospel and walk in athe tho narro narrow W way receive e and enjoy 1 the spirit of revelation to teach them that they should act irr ir au all things with an eye single eingle to tho tile glory of god all men have their agency and will be judged according to their works and the judg ment of god will be jut just if they v still ill denist in rejecting the truth and persecuting the eldera who are 6 sent ent unto them with a lessage of life and salvation they will prepare themselves for the destruction which the lord will send on tho the earth to scourge the wicked elder brown then spoke on the word of wisdom and exhorted the people to follow the instructions contained in the revelations of god on this subject of course on this matter he said they arc are at liberty to do as they please but those who adhere to them can claim and will receive the blen blessings ings promised thereby therein but these who reject the them in and follow their own inclination and sand use ute intoxicants and other in injurious rous drinks will not receive tb the blessings promised in the word of wisdom JOSEPH PARRY was the last e sneaker eaker he said he had been much edified and instructed while listening to the elders brown elder parry then spoke 0 of f the aborigines of this continent that they belin belonged ged to a branch of the house of israel and were formerly me lu a white and intelligent people ill e but t through disobedience to th the e commandments of tho the lord they fell into darkness and nud finally d dwindled win to a filthy and degraded race they had bad been cut cutoff kofl through transgression gres re sion sion but the promise of tile tather father to them was that they should again in be restored after many genera generations ga 0 that they should again be grafted in to the tru true e olive tree the true church of god according to the predictions of their fathers lehi and nephi recorded in the xv chapter of 1st ast nephi in th tho 0 book of mormon edition of 1879 tho the speaker also referred to a number of scriptural texts bearing bear on 0 this subject in the old and nei new v testaments and said the time spoken of had now come for them to begin to be restored to the favor of god the american indians the red men of the forest though they were a wild race were a remnant of the house of israel that god would feel after them and they would ultimately be reinstated to enjoy all 11 the blessings bles singa predicted concerning them co contained tied in tho tile old prophets and in the book mormon the work of the father has commenced among them they arc beginning to obey the gos gospel el and enjoy enjoy its blessings elder ider parry bore a strong testimony no that the lord through the angels from heaven had bad again revealed the gospel to joseph smith that ho lie held all the keys of the priesthood to administer in all the 0 ordinances of the gospel for the salvation of the human family or those who yield obedience to them the tile lord is now sending his servants to all the kingdoms and nations of the earth to preach this G gospel of the kingdom to all pe people 0 p le before the end shall come the choir eang T the 1 1 e glorious pl orious day Is rolling on A all 1 1 glory to the lord the services then closed with benediction by president 0 F middleton |