Show I 1 SUNDAY sept 11 am 1 I 1 prat middleton called the meet ing ig to order after singing and 1 prayer ira y cr an and ilia U administration of the sacrament thea assembly WM was addre addressed sied by i filist Fi LIlt ar N F who eaid said he ile was willing fo 0 o bear testimony to the work of god it was wag a marvelous work but it was none the I 1 less ml true the ancient eliv saw sav the latter day work and ind prophesied 1 aed of iland he thought it iba a good tudy audy f for lor the ilia young men of to see sea how veritably these pro prophecies ofin weft were beill being 9 fulfilled led in I 1 m this ifft day I 1 ayery young nun man should dhave llave a testimony for forham clial self and not be bel left to rely upon the belief or affirmation of 4 his hid father testimony is not by y of books but by fasting and prayer pia er 11 he referred to the organization of the tile church of christ in in formea nei days and contrasted ont d it with the tile in many hundreds of organizations 4 0 p the tune and found an colp parison eliat no church that now blow existed on bit the earth called tain had the same organization a was given by christ but ae come down later to the time which 11 ll joseph smith a mere boy bety by the power of god brought bortka forth a system which was the veril very exact type deac of the one established bolour by our lord whop he fig was on the earth I 1 Elder Cowley spoke on ence id counsel of bt the holy priests hood showing wherein the was correct and the result arison arising k from disobedience obedience dig basof wax of a chalao ter associated ivill with misery and J juls s appointed and that hato we could raut bo be made perfect pork cowit without it obedience to the he then theu at some length spoke ori bri unity unity in temporal chaira aa as well as spiritual showing that wo we must bo be one in temporal affairs before we wc can be made one in spiritual things thins I 1 lp I 1 1 R HiE occue occupied 1 ld a short ti time 1 ing in speaking jug to ali alie people and sai said ld he desired jed to be ble sed with the saints yand and we were obligations to our Heavenly father jather fb forthe for r the asi pos tion ion we iva occupy Y they were in in a it and they wanted to see tits t they wire going abend in that work he ile spoke of some of f the ancient worthies the maliner in chich God aorl worked ed with them how he ile chosa them out of tho the world to do a work for tor him as waa was par particularly exemplified in the character of mose moses who was a general 1 in the egyptian arm army ana and educated in it all the tire learning of that people and well calculated to lead a hoat of the children ofil srael after a few in tiona froni god paul as another rem remarkable character a learned luau mann I 1 a successful perie per acu ecu cu tor and afterwards became one of the most prominent and alece preachers of the gospel he ile urged the people to act inore promptly on oil alib teaching s of tho tile t priesthood afi the ex examples ample s for our imitation w acre et before us in inthe the bible and some were rare moat noble 8 and ti worthy of our notice in tho attributes which theba great 1 1 ones pos essed he rejoiced in in the tile gos cos delit pel it i vas was not mere belaf it was not mere form it WAS distant I 1 when ali chri heavens and the earth would bome come toge together 1 when haap ino more 1 re joy inturre in tur re ligin and the angels would descend and converse with men T the choir sang an anthem and the benediction was pronounced by elder john barker i i |