Show tabernacle SERVICES su aay jan 1885 the meeting at the tabernacle today to day was presided over by prest L W shur after singing by the choir and prayer by elder john crawford the sacrament w was as administered ELDER J W IF VOLKER then addressed the sainta saints on the fiat principles of the aspel of jesu jesus christ ho he was thankful than krul to bit one with the people of godan god and d to be gathered with them within these valleys vall eyt and why it VIM was that he should haye been enlightened by the spirit odthe of the lord to receive the gospel while others were left in darkness ho he could not tell but he rejoiced in the law of god gott and desired to live according to chose those laws there are many among us who try to oppose the priesthood und and it is is time titue for them to repeat repent for if they donot they will be left leh in total darkness god haa has restored res torea the kingdom that we may insy be guide iu in all our actions by bj the gifol holy priesthood look at the world world and see what has become of them since the priesthood Prest hood was taken from them they are now groping in darkness and all will fall into the ditch the world fear us be because we act as a unit and be ie cgue we are acknowledged by him who has all power when we compare the churches of the world with the carch of christ we find a vast diffie difference rence how flow was the church organized in the days dayis when jesus christ was upon the earth we find that the priesthood was there to preach and make known the gospel of eal sal and that apostles and seven ties were ordained and set apart to go 90 into the world and preach the gospel to every creature baptizing zin 9 chemin them in thenice the name of the father and of the son and of the holy ghost he that believeth beli eveth shall be saved and he that believeth beli eveth not shall be damned these were the principles in caples enunciated by the apos tn lies on the day of pentecost and these panic doctrines are now being disseminated by bt the elders orthis of this church in all parts of the world this is gods work and il it is a great and mighty work as it was revealed reye aled to joseph smith the prophet to this generation the tile world is indar in kne a yet for we find few have obeyed the tile gospel the thein inhabitants are looking for a new L 1 they cannot believe the dogmas which are set forth by the tile professors pr ofes sors of christianity but batan has be clouded their minds ao so that they cannot see seethe the light which has come into the world ELDER D R GILL who appeared before the congregation ga tion iu in the interest of the juvenile instructor next addressed the meeting and said he was pleased to meet with the saints in the capacity of a worshiping assembly there I 1 were we re many things that were interesting to us as ai a people but he thought houg ht one of the most important institutions that we hadeln have in our midst is the sabbath school he ile belie believed there was a greater immigration corn coming ng into the church at home than there was from all the nations of the earth and he was I 1 pleased to see so many come together e r in the sabbath school of the fourth ward word of this city this morning he ile took particular pleasure in the primary clasa in which three of bf the sisters were engaged a ged in the trai training of a very fafe large number ot of very omit small I 1 chi children dren in the paths of piety and peace he appealed appeal ed to the par eats to labor for the good of zion in brin bringing g the little ones to the si st n dy b school g he lie urged them to train up a child in the way he should go and when he 0 is old 0 ld he will not depart from it he intimated that the period of life from 6 to to 8 years was i good od time to make impressions on the young mind children ought to know why they were baptized parents complain that they have no time to teach them but if they do not find time to train them in the good nod paths they will turn to evil the nucleus nf the kingdom of god is now being formed we are laying the foundation for our sons and daughters to build upon the speaker commented in strong term against elden elders who bear the holy priesthood frie chood visiting saloons and there mixing with the liar the drunkard and those who take the name of the lord in vain he lie did not want his offid pring to go to the beggarly elements of the world did not want them to go the methodist Metho diat society whence be he bad had come he did not lot want any more of it he ile urged the saints to leave behind them a good library that their bons eons and daughters might have something good to read he ile believed in children re n paying tithing if f it was only ten cents then it would be natural for them to pay when they grew older there were upwards of children enrolled iu in the sabbath schools of the territory but thera there were yet a few thousands thou canda walking the streets of our great citie cities for whom it would be better that they were in our sunday Ech schools elder gill then spoke j 1 language 4 guage in in favor of the juvenile instructor tr cj in the interest of wh winch ichie he wi waa is traveling a which ought to be in in every family that our sons and daughters laughters may read its pages and learn earn the doctrine and become good men and women we would have much less trouble with them if this publication was more generally perused in the families of the saints as it tends t ti mould the character and give tone to tho the moral faculties of our youth after the tile ginging of an anthem and pra prayer yer b by y one 0 of f the elders the meeting dispersed |