Show tabernacle SUNDAY jan president flygare called the meeting to order which opened by the choir singing the hamu tn on page I 1 sweet Is the work my gw my king to praise e thy name give thanks a and nd BIDS sing prayer by bishop robert me mc Qu arric choir sang ye children of our god ye saints of latter days APOSTLE F 0 addressed address ed the an assembly embly and kaid said that if he were to consult his own feelings ha he would prefer to sit and listen to tho the remarks of others but being requested to speak by president flygare Ply gare he would endea endeavor to interest the saints if they would give him their attention and prayers he apprehended that many of us u a after passing behind the veil would look back with many ranny re grets how they had been absorbed frith with the things of earth instead of g giving ivi heed to the mission on which they bud had been sent to atla earth he e considered this life a serious fact that it was wits no empty show if as described by the boeti but a solid fact in sp speaking baking of passing behind the veil we got but a scanty idea of the meaning of it unless it was further explained the veil was the body I 1 in which we dwell for a season and in order to get behind the vell ceilia is to slip out orthis body this clay then we see as the lord bees us while here in this body allour all our knowledge of our former estate which we had with the father is taken from u us s and we grow in intelligence by slow degrees the speaker here reviewed the scanty knowledge we had bad of this earth ita its foundation its duration and mission this antell intelligence gance was given to the ancient Patriarchs Patriarch sw who k were well acquainted with the acl ence of astronomy and they knew the reckonings odthe of tho great jehovah among these were moses abraham and others mosea had desired a knowledge of the earth and it had been given him and it only needed the spirit of the lord in reading hia his descriptions of the creation ro to enable us to c comprehend much more than the most am scientific researched res earche in our day the prophet joseph had rec received ayed the game same revelation in regard to our earth and hence this knowledge was increasing er among the saints he ire alluded to tho the pea pearl ra of great price one odthe of the leading works of the church in which was the book of abraham abrahim wherein it was stated that abraham went down into egypt and taught astronomy to the inhabitants after dwelling at length on the vast amount of intelligence that can be acquired in this this life in reference refe renco to tho the heavenly bodies he be aid taid that j nothing gave so much 1011 1 as a true knowledge of god iri if we were poor pone as its regarded our earthly goods and bad had this know 4 ledge edge it would lead us into eternal i life god required abraham to I 1 teach these truths to his children I 1 apostle richards then mado made I 1 some very comforting remarks on the spirits of the departed how bow they were occupied the power they thet abde had etc te the spirits of our departed friends could see us they ther meet with us and delight in us iu in our meeting though we cannot see sea I 1 them those who bad had made covenants here upon the earth had PO power over the wicked spirits who were held in chains of darkness until the day of redemption what w waa the nature of this darkness darku esi it did not consist of chains of braas or of iron they had labored with the people of this nation for beare but they eee see not they cannot ace see this gospel but are plotting per petua dually lly against aguin st the priesthood esthom to destroy 5 destroy end pud assassinate minate they hold secret leagues to accomplish this end the speaker aured the sainta sain to to think less of their merchandise their cattle their lands and posses and give more attention to the building up of the kingdom and the knowledge of god would be more fully imparted unto them ha ile touched upon the death of children who he scid would be raised to life eternal and enjoy all the blessings blee sings of the gospel and even gr grow to the age of a tree M he ile quoted the 3rd ard chapter odthe of the bookoff book of ether ath and following verses proving that man waa was created in the image of god that the lord jesus christ was seen by the brother of jared in the full stature of a man that this was the body of H his is api ri tand that he ile would appear in the flesh oven even as a be he a appeared p el in the spirit he ile cout contended ende maiz r also that this was an evidence of the dir different sites of men that the prees pre es ex spirit waa was the full size of the body when it attained ita its full growth in this world except when marre marred dby by being crippled in its birth the apostle then gave counsel to the elders in administering to the Eick eckand ic kand and that was so to live that they might receive the email voice of the spirit receive impressions iu in regard to the sick to know whether they were not appointed unto death this was important as sometimes wo we were inclined to cling unto them and after all our eff lorts in ia faith prayers ere they had to go ne he also alluded to the bill and the edmunds bill as fried froth it would all pass 0 and if god could not take care his kingdom he be wanted to w who h 0 co could uld he ile concluded hia his re marks by a retrospective view the terrible tornadoes tornado ee whirlwinds whirl winds t and all other calamities that had visited this and other nations during the past year and it was evident that thac these things were on the increase and the end would be terrible indeed it became them as saints so to live that they might erow grow in the knowledge of god day by day and go through life manfully fully magnifying every law and living when the savior comes prepared to enter into his glory |