Show tabernacle SERVICE elders crawford and bests alte addresses SUNDAY feb counselor jas burch presided the meeting opened by singing the hymn on page elder api delivered the opening prayer after which the choir sane ELDER JOHN RAWFORD addressed the congregation we are looked upon by the world as a peculiar people considered no worth paying much attention to in some respects while in other respects we have too i much attention paid to ua we should beek after the one faith that the scripture speaks of he spoke of having a plied for the privilege of speaking in a ball which waa built for the purpose of accommodating thedia terent religious the person ho held the key to the house asked wh atlie should preach he answered that he should preach the gospel of jesus christ and he preached a short timeto the gentleman who told him that it would not do to preach baptism for there mission of sins paul said Though we or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel than that which we have preached let him be accursed now if you have no the gospel thai paul taught you must belaboring bc under the curse of paul he referred to the time dmn christ was huing when be asked his apostles to watch while he went to pray and when ho came back and found them asleep about ahe final offer bof money that the savior might be delivered into the hands of his enemies at the time when he was taken into custody and said why do yon come after me with your spears and your awards as though I 1 were a thief anda robber why did you not take me when J preached an fn the markel place th 0 speaker contrasted that circumstance to the ar reit of president cannon and said thai bif anything yvere wanting to convince him that president cannon is a servant of god that circumstance cum stance a strong convincing and proof to the effect that he is ho referred to a certain when theio was a school benig started here ty sectarians sect arians to reform the maimon people when the speake rone odthe divinia likened the people to doad their children to puppies ind old dogs are incurable but give us the puppies and we can train them as we please now you may think of this they considers 1 the dogs are incurable he glado fit I 1 prefer to gaze upon the bright bide of a picture not the dark side the persecutors are putting a good runny people into ithe penitentiary but not di great many there arp about ive thou band born into church every year add and three thousand that area brought m iby year and think and that the rato that the tr going at present K will bo u long time before they hayo completely iel the whole kamta I 1 turn a hair to barq one of pur enemies int ug today to day it is wrong to apon them a B for acia far they do riot know what th eyare jesus said forgive them for they know noV what they do stephen also when upward ens open athe was befog lionetto death said oh jorj lay bi their door speaker ep eaker said that he would braug his remarks to a close pray ing the blessings 6 god might akst upon the that they might prove faithful to their covenant annd be worthy of their exaltation in the god the faithful 1 re entitled to m ELEB JOS A WEST next cr he gjoke in an eloquent ina of the times which are pashing at and baid that we should not feel hard toward the are cereo people we should not permit our hearts to go out too much in sympathy for the of god alo aro tried ur religious principles toa cause us lit and their persecutors our hearts with to ward them he referred to the period of the birthon bir chrict and the scenes were acca on this aemi sphere at that time from thos he traced the history hi atory of abo not chitea awn ta ohp amo af pf abd tbd Gadi anton rebber and compared the between the berit by the leade th e of the robbers to abo demands ro adeby the odthe latter day of leaders in the arsent atty i we not ue fer u our tho christ the signs ortho to ilia wilimen wi lihen pa j aa transformation wrought upon thia continent in aba short space of three days and the number of the enemies of righteousness that were destroyed from the earth atthe time of the crucifixion of djesus christ we most cs that tho purposes of god may be brought about anore speedily than imagine may ete t A r f faithful ito our god amen j u i 1 13 B x the choir performed ao anthem and bene diction being arp bounced ly ishop Bj |