Show tabernacle ACtE SERVICES SUNDAY feb 15 1885 the meeting was wa called to order by president N X 0 flygare Fly pare after dingi singing ug by the choir and prayer by E elder ider thoa doxey the sacrament was administered to the assembled saints the rhe meeting waa was then addressed by ELDEK ELDER lonin LORIN who des desired 1 ired to say something that would be instruct instructive i ve a and nd beneficial to abo those e that hear bear he realized that we lived in a very itous period of the worlds history not nok only as connected with us aa as a peo pie but with all the nations of the earth the lord waa was at work wilh with the nations preparatory I 1 to setting up hia his kingdom upon upon tho the earth and this kingdom w was to be of such a cb character a facter when a fully ly organized and swaying sw abing aying i a power pow er in the earth that it would be looked upon as wonderful a workman and startling hinline inline eyes of all nations lucifer the archenemy arch enemy of mankind had fought and held dominion from theda the data ys of adam until now but we are about to enter upon a new epoch wb ahn the kingdom will begin to bear rule among tho the children of men t 1 the Christ christianus iaus have haie for many year years been trying t to q convert the world to christian christianity i trying g to get the people to beleve believe in J jesus csuk christ how much they had bad acs complis hed the world must be the judges hetulio speaker had failed to see anything they had done it seems to have created a greater division amo among mgt the he various sects steta of christendom th they y ere not nearly as united now as formerly fon but arc are much farther apart in thia this state of things the lord biad had been seen fit to reveal himself to the prophet of the last days chehad revealed himself to joseph smith telling him not to join himself to any ot of the sects aa as all were wrong and aud the lord further told him that he had a work for him to do and aud it would be made known to him bim hereafter the speaker here alluded to a question that had bad been put to the prophet in regard to the manner in which he lie could control so many people the ausy answer jar that camo came from bro joseph waa was to the effect that he lie taught them correct doctrine and they ther governed the E elder ider said he had bad frequent converse converso with travelers in in regard to our ou union runion they affirmed it was not so much polygamy that off of lense ieuse but it was our union which they were afraid of for in juniou there was strength while wickedness was on the increase in the world the kingdom of god was trying to ariu bring 9 about a time of righteousness ho was conversing with a man the other day who ba had visited utah previous to tho the advent of railways and he lie had noticed the the entire absence of sah saloons mlis but now he lie observed there were plenty of them and they were kept up and patronized by those who were termed outsiders it had been observed that men of the east attempted to put a railway through here the tile mormons Mor mons would oppose it but this was not defy likely as was afterwards verified as we were sending out hundreds of young men to llie nations nat ions every year tb the c world need not trouble we wanted a more rapid communication with the nations in order to send swift messengers to them we want to establish good order when every one would be respected in in hia his rights the speaker closed his rei remarks narks t that this church h by L y observing aa as grows gro we satans gatans power will be he cut short aud and thousands now liv living would eee see the establishment of tl the e of god there must needs be opposition in ill all things and this opposition 0 apo ution is calculated cale ilythe outcome to make brilliant and vigorous the intellects of out young I 1 men wen and confer power upon th the e latter latter day sainta as aisling them in carrying on 0 U this work w ork and slid thus enact the very thing it was designed to ob obstruct resulting in a glorious victory ELDER WM ii 11 WRIGHT indorsed endorsed indor sed the remarks of the 1 previous 1 re viol 9 speaker bore a powerful t tes es 1 tinious to the truth of the latter lay blay work and anti desired desh cd to b be d fait faithful 11 to iho the end of his life the rhe choir pang fang an anthem and anti the benedi benedice cd ion was pronounced by bishop E stratford |