Show tabernacle TAHEi mCLE SERVICES sunday feb 17 11 am congregation was culled LI to order 1 by president C P middleton the choir aang ging the hymn on page 1 great god attend while zion sief sins prayer by elder L F monch president middleton announced that elder Rider of kune kane county and elder mcdonald cDonald of salt county were present eldar kudrit 1 eaid enid he did not expect io lo have privilege of occupying the tile stand but he lie was ever desirous of responding in I 1 to every ca call made upon him b by those in authority he lie said a although I 1 the saints were traced placed in peculiar circumstances t the e lord was at the hielm belal and if we observe the signs of the time times and also not notice I 1 ce tile wa way y in ili which we have been protected ted by the lord we cannot I 1 help let rejo rejoicing J icing for xion zion is 4 spreading sp readill her p I 1 er sons and her daughters are tire moving into other territories and our influence is being more wh widely i lely felt and aud as saints we ive should rejoice that we have been been permitted to receive the ble biers bles s ings I 1 of the tile gospel our ficle are raised up and we wi will 11 ll e enjoy ajoy J every every privilege of the gospel inasmuch ds n 8 wo will obey our Ilea heavenly venly father for we ire bave covenanted to servo him through good and evil report I 1 and to warn all mankind As a result of the preaching of tho the els ders of this ch church thousands have been gathered froni from every land to these valleys of the tile mountains where tho the temples of god have been reared in which we can receive ordinances for oure elvce elvee and also aho for our dead friends god I 1 having 12 ving I 1 1 again aill restored the tile gospel in its fulfs fullness as with prophets and apostles Apos wo we hold the glor glorious 0 o privilege of receiving new revelations I 1 being no longer in ili doubt and aud dark but enjoying a full knowledge of the tile laws and ordial ordinances inces of god tho tile speaker showed the feces eity sity of educating our children in the laws of the gospel that they may not have to say say they have never been instructed in these things uc Ile counseled the parents to set the good example to children by attending to their duties and living up to 0 o ilia tha laws of god them thern delves e IV lie ile then referred to the visit of the wyoming legislators and said they 1 octif testified led they were treated better than ever in all their lives before and he lie was satisfied that the warm deception jec eption given them theril will have baye ft A rood good effect to tho people of utah the fight is not ve vet tover over we must be ile up and doing and eack to be ile obedient to the servants of god for by fly thia this means alone lias lifts so go I 1 much nuch been accomplished accomplish et and if we ive have achieved ao so much in ill the short depaco ace of fifty year how much more wl will 11 be done lone in the next fifty will the f mii rounding territories ha hold 1 the faints saints of god no but hi i the tile meantime the enemies ene inies of the King kingdom doin of god will be on oil tho the alert and we cannot expect an anything from them in our favor but lio lie expected d the day to come coine when legislation proscribing the sainta of god would be wept away and wid wo ave would be privileged to enjoy th thu liberties of the constitution 1 tho tile speaker finally gave gaye an in in te retting 0 account of the condition 0 f at rt hai hi how low in K N 0 li dr lie the hettling athe par far south 4 tiivi acs annl to the tile truth aalf dathe tho the t he lord ord F A 4 V U ELDER MCDONALD said thai that ho lie was almost a st rinzer in this cit v yd yet wo we were P er we w ei 4 all interested i in bui ding up the af 0 fi carie ir in tile apposition opposition to this people was i dij consequence of our having th the e irmith I 1 the adversary being losing his kill kingdom idoni stir stirred iid lio the people to fight against the th c saints of god that he lie might ins maintain intrain the supremacy a little longer i i thia policy 0 was very evident in th pe gis falion which was ws tride enacted led for this people and which e I 1 i excluded many of our best men from labor fabor ing in in any civil i for the bene the people adi had c come ome biltof out of the world did not wish to mingle with them to t P par ar take of the tile spirit of B babylon b I 1 0 and n a ac acquire quire the habits in which t they hey ibid u aged lie ile likened this I 1 condition on of things to the hela and allegheny river rivers which flow into die ohio the one being clear and the other muddy and their waters floy side by tido side down the ohio for ii long iong distance before they mingle tb th gether but he lie trul trusted teI thes the S a in 14 would never join theniel vea iab those outside to partake of their waya ul although though many of them the outi idera hoped the day evou would I 1 ca come when we would have bavo like iti teresta with them the ep ekker then them testified hat joseph smith WM wil of god and that th the ino rothn ir w telca alt was the willii I 1 er ic C auld spread for men would investigate its ita and principles I 1 I 1 1 i the choir M ang an in anthen nn then I 1 benediction by bid elder er jo ae stanford 4 1 I 1 I 1 t |