Show tabernacle SUNDAY 11 am juno 22 1884 bishop B C critchlow called the meeting to order after singing sin gin I 1 and prayer and the ad administration of the sacrament the saints were addressed by ELDER wit mi CnAPP lA who had bad just returned from a mission to E england aber an absence of about 15 months in which time he lie had passed through a diversity of circum stances and received a cold on his lungs which clung to him during during the whole time he stayed in england englan ho said aid lie was happy to bo be again in the vales of utah and was pleased to see the faces of his friends and stand before them to report as regards his stewardship during the 25 23 years 11 he had been in the church he could not conceive of one moment in which his religion had not been up uppermost armost during his absence from ME utah lie had been engaged in disseminating some of tho the principles of the gospel of the pon son of god he ile contrasted the british mission now with thirty five years ano ago then the people were ready to listen to the elders and to search the scriptures Scrip turea but now they declined and believed all religions grand frauds utah is but a speck in this great nation but it is attracting the attention odthe whole world owing to the peculiarity culi arity of the people who dwell there I 1 his is field eld of la labor or was in the norwich conference and I 1 as many of the saints had emigrated to this land this left the conference very scattering and made liard hard lab labor 0 r for the elders in visiting the uie members they could not compete with the christians in the otter offer of salvation they offer it very cheap ivyon if yon believe in the lord lora jesus christ they sa say Y that is all that is essential to salvation ho had faith that this gospel this kingdom aou would id stand for forever ever the only desire that ho he had whilst on this mission was to bear testimony to the lat ter day work and in plainness and in boldness he ie declared the glorious principles ofilio gospel of the son of god the tile elders of israel have warned about every vill village age tow nand city in england and told them of oatlie the alad glad tidings and thought there would be e very little excuse for them as they could not say they had not heard a mormon elder many aching bones and blistered feet would testify this in order to show the indefensible position of the protestant sects of chris mendom F ader filder chappie chapple cited a discussion which took place in england while ha lie was there thero bet beaw een a protestant and a catholic as to which was the true church in which the catho S lie got away with the protes protestant tant dr pusey was the man to draw the tile line and so knocked the stilts from under the protestant that lio lie found lie had only a ropo of sand to depend on oil elder chappie chapple thanked god for the spirit lie enjoyed while on his mission ho ile urged the young elders to study hard that they might be able to meet the learned 1 D J D s in biblical lore on leaving england he lie with others received the welcome laurel from president smith that ho lie was satisfied with all of them and blessed them and wished them a safe journey to enjoy again the society of their families ho lie hoped we might receive the same welcome when we had finished our course on earth B n young then addressed the saints for a few minutes he ile alluded to the first preaching of the gospel in tho the british isles which had converted thousands to a knowledge of the truth hand and they had emigrated and como come to zion and j they were chiefly of the blood of ephraim that had accepted the glad tidings many blany elders had lifted up the voice of gladness in that nation as they had journeyed from village to allago and from froin city to city which V caused hundreds to rejoice in the holy ono one of israel ho ile was pleased to hear the testimony tho the elder had bore this morning lie liked the tile tins ring it had which proved that he lie bad had kept himself pure pire and spot spotless lem and was sa satisfied t isfried with liim self iio ile urged lie the sain sa ills is to become more wore united that lie the evils which our enemies desired might inight not coma come upon us and pra prayed praed ed that we might build up tip zion with all our mind might and strength il 11 CANNON felt greatly blessed in ii listening to tho the test testimony i diony of or bro cl chappie I 1 and inan in an earnest and touching manner he he reviewed the state of society now ex in file ho nat nations isile of tho the world there w was is a hatred of everything that is divine skepticism I 1 ia la rampant and infidelity reigns supreme something in more ore than the he bible is call called ed for to produce repentance hundreds of ministers do not accept thu the biblo bible aa ar an all infallible guide i de ho ile strongly admonished tl alio 11 saints ints to work that this disbelief might not rain gain power over the minds of our youth and our tho the choir sang an anthem benediction by E elder ider joseph hall |