Show FAnEll FM lABKA isas it A 31 fsr 14 jai 4 ills 1113 alf de I 1 atad t I 1 0 1 milard t the conjoint ine meeting eting odthe of the improvement pro of 0 Oilen den was held in the decoud ward M meet acet ingli in ghouse ouse saturday ev ining juno june ath tho the congregation was called to order byS K E ir if andersen anders oil after aint singing ging b by the he choir prayer 1 was ou red b lithol robt I 1 mo mc Qu arric arrid wr APOST 1 rd D 11 d delivered e I 1 j ar c TAMM in Nf etting and instructive discourse un on the life and character of abraham the fe father ther of the tile faithful this ans as in in response to our invitation a week ago ao from the supt bupt of the Y I 1 A hofweber of Weber county the speaker cr said zaid there was as but little comparatively known of the tile real ii life and lind character of this great and good man lie said all christiana christians gin for tile their ir father through faith in the lord jesus christ ghrist ho ile should treat of and reccie receive everything that can be found that is compatible with bis which 1 has hat enle coine down dovil to us and 1 lias I 1 as be been e i i s i lib I 1 e n of him h i in either by sacred or PROFANE HISTORY niS lORT the speaker then referred to the bir buth tl of abraham in the land of chadda Ch adea dea at which time a strange b new nc star stir appeared in th tho heavens cheavens and several ot others liers of a smaller na nal ture disappeared fact very ry much troubled 1 het astrologers rs 0 of f that time T hey could not understand it but thought it foreboded foreboder fore boded acim oaie evena and dud that a 6 child of great importance bauco had been born into the worl world they finally concluded to inform the king nimrod of tho the matter who demanded the child that ho I 1 DESTROY nm HIM after pome controversy on the matter between tho king and terah Abra abrahams bams father the tile latter pros pres availed on the monarch to delay the matter for three days during luring which timo time another child was substituted for abraham and thus hia his life w was as saved the lecturer then said the child Abra abaaham liam had bad a knowledge of the living god at a very early age ake some accounts say at the age of three years he ife then showed how bor the boy with hi his mother and nurse lived secreted in a cave 10 years how he be grew rew into stature bein being A preserved i 4 by the 11 POWER OF THE LORD a and nd increased ic r m ed ln m wi wisdom adom and autel use nud waa a noble spirit as tit ali q bool Alini aj ham bam contained inthe ccarl Pc arl of he next spoke of the idolatry that prevailed in the time of abrahams Abri hams boyhood and said that he w as placed by his bis father in the care of noah and others to preserve reserve him from the hands or knowledge Enow knowledge ledge aud and power of tho the king while in these holy families he was wits very studious and acquired a great knowledge of the holy priesthood and came to know that lie had a legal right to the same bame he learned the ways of the lord which he lie intended to write and cw muni cate to iiii h posterity erity for cheh futuro benefit ho ile remained with noah and shein thirty nine years at period 4 abraham flunking ho he was now n not known visited his parents home and anti found that lyn wis father was wits altogether TO IDO IDOLATRY LATRY this tai in fill bil th tr grief fand and borrow sorrow after some con verea vcr eUion tion with his father on oil the subject he lie asked ask I 1 S d and prevailed on hi his mother to dish of savory meats for the gods and set it before them course would not because they could not eat it A second dish was prepared pie lac pared but placed before beford the idols remained i 1 m a 1 untouched tho ilio samo same as the first one abraham then destroyed desti oyed aall thesul tho images acs cypen W han aerah tie fati father fei found 0 out ut thia whole matter he lie brought it to tho illo knowledge of the king who determined to destroy abraham F por or they hail had also discovered that he was wits the child which was born on oil tho the night when tho the strai ig ge star ta appeared ai red jle he with if harah brwn wa sas s cat cast into prison and ed to bo burned to eath I 1 IN A FURNACE s vucu of martyr martyrdom domar ar rived the brother waa was consumed but abraham was preserved the chords which he lie was ivas bound being burned off him from this time forth abraham became much re respected q acted by the king and others any and I 1 gained much power and influence the lecturer then refer referred to the command of the lord to abraham to get up and leave with his fathers house and go to the land which lie would show him bim the promises of god to him and to hb seed i after him and that in them should all the nations of the earth be bp blessed ho ile traced the venerable old patriarch in bis his into egypt ft here where tho the king fi fell ell in love with sarah and wanted to adakii I 1 mc win and tho the lords interference to doliver both sarah and abraham from tile persecutions odthe king 1 while in egypt he lie laugh taught t the people pe alc plc in that land jand much knowledge of the science of astronomy end und diric directed ted their attention to tho the exi existence of thip he true and ah living gg god arid eno deavo red to induce them born to id serve him forth cy were divided in reli bious matters and despised cach each other those yore devot 0 nr i gg JM IM 5 1 ed I mothe to them in for along time lie ifal an ami under dunder his teach nga ug und anti of their idolatry was exterminated from front tb tholand oland josephus states that ho lie taught them astronomy ail and arithmetic which had hot beform bew been taught in iri E egypt agypt tho the lecturer touched briefly on other matters the ORIGIN OF the promise ot isaac the trial ih iii the tile coni command mahd to offer him as a burnt of ering fiering ou mount moriah Mo the rain found in the thicket the grief of tho tile mother aa ai eho she feared that the boy was to be a victim her grief and joyful surprise at liis bis return culminating in her death etc etc the speaker alzer closed with some general remarks on oil the greatti greatness of abraham hia his benevolence his kindness to the poor administering to the destitute bis his successful wara wars with the kings of the tile hit land id hia hn meeting with Melchi sedek pa paying ing tithing and of being beilig bless blessed of him the deep mourning and great re that was shown him when he lie departed this life that he lie has passed to his exaltation and dwells with god in nil CELi ariAL KINGDOM hete counseled He the people to be fai faithful th continue to do the works work 8 of abraham that they may be the ail children iten of abraham that they may enjoy with him afie tl ie bless blessings sings he has secured through ugly obedience to the commands of god superintendent ANDERSON ou on the part of the associations thanked tho tha speaker for tho the highly interesting lecture ho he I 1 biad ad listened listene to which was confirmed by unanimous vote of tho the audience the cho choir ir sang an anthem and the conference adjourned for three months prayer by elder P F S Il It ichards |