Show tabernacle iAB VyA SERT SERVICES ICES 11 1 1 sunday jan ai 1884 bichop stratford called the meeting to order the chor sang the ibe h tun on tho page joy tb to tile world orld I 1 the lord will come and earth receive her king prayer b by co counselor i W parley farley tho the choir sang the hymn on page 67 I 1 praise ye tb the lord loi d I 1 good to raise your hearts and voices in his the sacrament of the lords supper was then ELDER bolty f addressed the assembly he felt to rejoice in being connected with the work odthe of the gird lu rd we are a rec peculiar liliar people and it wad was generally y accepted that we were so I 1 civilized arld in the days of f jesus it was commonly believed that nothing good could come out or nazareth ga 60 fa a this day it was fashionable to believe that nothing good could como come out of utah the belief beliefs of the various sects were changing aiice this church had begun to primul promulgate ate the principles of odthe the gospel they tey now the gathering and ba bap p know how they areto are to come about neither jo do they know tho manner in which to perform baptism the idea that crimiti als go to heaven hearen on being executed is absurd and as the practice was common in the world worl he lie could not help thinking that it was an incentive to crl crime geoa M the parties who in committing crime believed if they rece received 1 ived the ministrations of the tile priest at the cri critical moment when they were about to pay the penalty of their evil deeds the gates of f heaven would reopened bo be opened unto them this waa was owing to tha pro found ignorance of the plan wan of salvation as no unclean thing would everetter ever eve enter renter the heavenly state no murderer had eternal aterna life abiding in him the speaker then proceeded tr to make remark rc markeson esou the coming forth of the book of mormon how its iti publication astonished the word and excited the ire and determined opposition of the hireling clergy he ife contended that it had como come forth a predicted by the ho ly prophets yet some of the tile learned learnel had doubted it but tho characters in which it was written had been beed plainly proved to be the language of the people who inhabited this continental continent at tho the time it vas wag deposited in the earth earthay by the scientific rese researches aichs archs of the travelers inCent raI america and other portions of this great continent he ile encouraged the saints to give their att cution to thee chec e things and to pray over them I 1 if they would do this they would n ver bo be conf confounded he urged them to walk circuit circumspectly bel before ote goa go 1 and they would never swerve from the straight ghi and narrow path he ile fu further arther testified of the work 1 of I i god and trusted the people would so conduct themselves that they would secure to themselves an cx al tation iu in the kingdom of god aimor B D c made a few remarks on the ples of the everlasting gospel goepel as advanced by bk elder oder crowford he ile was NIM much pleaded in the improvement of the saints and hoped they would cont hAtin to advance in the grand and noble work in which they were all engaged and prove I 1 faithful to to the end t the choir sang a hymn and benediction was pronounced by elder L F monch |