Show TABE SE SERVICES MUM sunday day OCK 1884 va 1 P r r ra nut services services ber vices commenced by the choir singing the bairn n behold the Mount aili of the lord prayer by elder T J stevens S the choir sang salvation sacred word of love and the was administered adminis tired 1 qt i ELDER having been called to address the aggregation o desired the aia taace of the spirit of god to guide and aiace t him bini that we might night all bo instructed 1 for wo we have gathered here to be a people of one heart of one mind dind and of on one fai faith thaud and to be united uni in our views views in in regard 11 to the tile gospel of jesus christ and the plan an of salvation not only for the living ving buehr but for the thi dead our lathers fathers as the prophet ays have inherited lies vanity and things wherein there is is no profit and they were in darkness ss for many hundreds of years until the revelation of the gospel and la a knowledge of the true and living god what our fathers taught us we retained but when the gospel came camo to us light and truth beamed upon our understanding a new field was opened unto ua us and we wd could see that the blessings of the true gospel pertained biot only to this life bul also the life to io come that it embraces the salvation of the dead we began to learn something of the ibe family organization and of there the relationship lation lations ship bip we sustain to each other and to the dead who have not had the privilege of f obeying the gospel for them themselves melves the principle of salvation cal lor for the dead is one of the greatest works god has revealed to his people to the speaker was pleased pleased to state that hundreds an and thousands aro are embracing the opportunity thus given them to assist their friends who have passed behind the veil now there are thousands upon thousands who it is eafe to presume would woud have obeyed the gospel if they had bad heard it tan in the flesh hence 1 it is nc necessary essary they them should have tho the privilege AV elege of hearing it in the spirit we must not stop querying as to whether they will accept the works we do for them the labor devolves upon us and it is our duty to per form the same and thus in assisting our friends behind the veil we become saviours Savi ours to them u upon pon mount zion as it is written I 1 I 1 for two months past it t had been I 1 alie speaker ri lot to labor in in the temple at logan and lie had find thus had the privilege of bei being ng reminded of many things which ho he had forgotten ten and also of learning principles which were entirely new to him and could understand what was meant by the prophet joseph when in speaking peaking of building a house to the lord he said it should be a house of order a house of prayer and a house of god he ile never experienced greater 1 kindness in his life than that which he received at the handa hands of the brethren and sisters while laboring lab orinc 1 in tho the temple from the dent down their courtesy and kindness I 1 were uniform and continuous 1 from the hour he first entered until I 1 he took his departure for his home in this city but his work in the department in which he lie was cn en was not yet finished and he expected to return as soon as circumstances cum stances arc are favorable and continue his work until it was finished this labor was to write a bistor history y 0 of f the temple from the commencement to the present time not for publication but as nr u record ecord which will bo bd kept kepi and anti which will last as long as the temple stands it was a sacred work and ho lie felt thankful he was consider considered Td worthy to perform the same in all the labors in tho the house of the lord it is n necessary ecks ary that they lie be done properly and in order and while we should never let an opportunity port unity pass whereby we can cau aid our friends there inay maybe be a danger of too great hurry and in our haste to go through the house of god we may furget forget some things which are very necessary and tho the result would be we would have bave to wait until tho the items needed were obtained all who desire to go through should have their records in order aud prepared in euch such a manner as far as possible to avoid confusion aud and that all may be in their proper place it lt s aso also very my necessary esstry that every person have a recommend i for it is impossible for any one to pass in without I 1 one the temple at logan is situated on ahill an d oftentimes when tile speaker was walkin walking up to it he thou thought ff the warda of the poet in the t ie first arst hymn sung this afier oooo behold the mountain of the r lord rd tp this desire among anc latter lutter day saints to build tern temples pica to our god is is commendable and add the people of cache county feel proud in having accomplished so great a work and the speaker sp aker expected clel the day to come when a temple ale would be built in tips county jt it had been prophesied that such would be the case and he lie was latis satisfied fied this prediction would have its fulfilment fulfillment from frodi the fact that like prophesies were uttered in regard to the temple which vow stands at logan he le had striven to find out tese these pro phenies and his researches had bad in a I 1 lu great measure me asure been successful the tile year 18 while attending a an conference lear e rence in in logon g au president W V woodruff was called calle d upon by pres ident brigham young to address the tile congregation he this tile people in the ly to young conrao of his remarks he told to III them that they would mat many efthem of them live to see seb a temple of ilie the lord built built ott the bench bene relgie in that city ity that when it was co ail i f lete would go up into the towers and look over this beautiful valley and see it covered with bund hundreds reds of the residences of the saint 3 of god and then would remember these savings and know that they arc tru true all of these predictions have been fulfilled to the letter prophecies in relation to the building b ot of that templo temple were also uttered by other persona persons many yens ago all ot of which have come to pass and we are witnesses of it the people of cache valley are r eki kind and are willing to do all ia in their power to assist all who may go in th their e ir midst for the purpose of receiving the hit wings which can only he lie obtained in holy places and will give ad ail the information in their power rind whenever wo go to this place they will always make us welcome and do all they possibly NY can cad to make us comfortable iio ile prayed that this pond good work may inay continue till fill all is completed and that tho the blessing of god may remain with us continually the to choir sang an nut aut anthem bein and benediction was pronounced by elder john craw crawford ford |