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Show PRESIDENT ROBERTS SPEAKER AT OGDEN MORMON TABERNACLE SERVICES YESTERDAY. " ! Discourse Founded on Nineteenth; Psalm of David Special Musical j Program Rendered. ' The services at the Ogden tabernacle taber-nacle yesterday afternoon were well attended and highly appreciate.!. President Pres-ident B. H. Roberts of the Quorum of Seventies was the speaker of the afternoon, taking for his text the nineteenth nine-teenth psaim of David. It was a masterly mas-terly discourse, delivered in the speaker's speak-er's .usual eloquent and forceful manner. man-ner. He extolled the prophets of old, comparing the wisdom of centuries ago with that of today, expressing the thought that, the wisdom of ancient times, which was greater In relation to the things of God than it Is today, prevailed because the prophets and disciples then lived nearer the everlasting ever-lasting truths of God. hence their conception con-ception of truth was more Godlike. In addition to tho discourse given by-Elder by-Elder Roberts, the following program was given: Special organ selection by S. T. Whltaker. A number of selections by the tabernacle tab-ernacle choir. Quartet and chorus from Julian Edwards' Ed-wards' cantata, "Lazarus." bv Mr. and Mrs. Jed Ballantyne, Caleb 'Marriott, Ruby Geddes and choir. The members of the, priesthood of the OgJen stake met at North Ogden and Huntsville! The two meetings were held so as to obviate traveling very great . distances over the bad roads which now prevail Both meetings meet-ings were well attended, it being stated stat-ed that the North Ogden meeting house never before held so many people. peo-ple. The program of the meetings consisted largely in class exercises, entered en-tered into by the various quorums President Evans and a part of the high counsel attended at Huntsville, and In the afternoon Professor. G. J. Jensen of Weber academy addressed the 'meeting there. The priesthood meeting of the Weber We-ber stake was held in the Weber academy acad-emy building and it was well attended. attend-ed. The same routine of work was attended at-tended to there as in the meetings at North Ogden and Huntsville. |