Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-08-30
At THE TABERNACLE.
FULL TEXT or THE FORMERS REMARKS.


In the Tabernacle Sunday afternoon,
August 18th. 1897, the services being
presided over by Elder Angus NJ. Can
non. president Of the salt Lake stake
The choir sang the anthem:
"Behold the mountain of the Lord
In latter days shall rise"
Prayer was offered by Elder Heber
Iverson.
The choir further sang:
softly beams the sacred dawninE
OF the great mlllennial morn"
PRIEST. WOonRUFF's ADDRESS.
President MILFORD Woodruff was the
fist speaker. He spoke as follows:
want to say to the Latter-day
Saints that | have had quite a desire
Of late to once more address you upon
some few subjects which / have upon
my mind. | have been for quite time
under the weather as the saying IT,
/ have not been able to meet with the
Saints nor TO do any business IA good
deal of the time. But ] have been
bic ssed of late with n little better
health.
The first subject I want to name Is
the addressing of the I.attrr-day
SAINTS III lllS IuttfliHtit OF III any
other assembly. There is nothing more
painfJl TO me than TO arise before five
or ten thousand beople and attempt to
address them when not one in FIVE. or
ten, or twenty. can hear what ] say
II is very difficult when this Taber.
nacle is fun for any man TO make
them hear. In speaking in
few rules which I think every man
should observe. In the first place
he ought To preach to that post
right in the center yonder from the
time he begins till he gets through.
When man who speaks from this
stand turns 10 the right. nobody on the
left can hear him, and when
he turns to the left. mo-
body on the right can hear him,
and for men and women to sit here
hour after hour without hearing or uu-
Outstanding what is said, Is very pain
full Pardon me, brethren and sisters.
for referring 10 this. / perhaps am like
The rest of my brethren. | do not know
that ! cun make this assembly hear,
but ] VIII do the best | can.
! was blessed with the privilege of
attending the celebration OF the intro
duction of the Pioneers into these val
leys of the mountains. was
very poor I'm health. but
was enabled 'almost every day
10 attend those assemblies. and
on the Pioneer dny | had the privilege
Of riding at the head of the Pioneer
company with several Of my brethren.
The events which I was privileged
10 witness during the Jubilee
week We're of deep interest to me and
brought to my mind great many
thoughts and reflections. / had the
privilege of meeting in this Tabernacle
some ten or fifteen thousand boys ana
girls of the rising generation In the
midst Of Israel. Among other things
] had the honor Of being crowned here
by Il young lady as the Oldest Pioneer
Of the valley. | locked upon It rs
far higher honor than being crowned
a king or prince. All that I saw and
heard during those celebrations fur
nished a testimony TO me. and laid
with weight upon my mind the events
Of the past. l viewed the adjoining
and the lighting OF This city in the
evenings with great delight / have
travelled something like $4,000 miles in
over sixty years of my pilgrimage.a
l never saw in any part of the world
anything to compare with il. II is
true the nations Of the earth in years
gone by have not had those appliances
that we have today In go grent Il
measure.
want to refer to the contrast
between tho celebration Of the en-
trance Of the Pioneers into this Will
IVY anu luf entrance 81 Inc Pioneers
itself. THIS celebration brought
strongly to my mind wnat God has
wrought IN these valleys Of the noun
talns. Mythuughts turn to the duy
when we entered this valley, when 1
irove President Young in my carriage.
ne lying upon n bed Of sickness. We
ramped here on the east OF the Knuts-
dent Young slept in his bed IN my
wagon one right after entering this
barren desert, and he was quite a
SICK man. He said to me in the morn
ms brother Woodruff, want to
,ahe walk. AN right" said l.
a number ot the Twelve Apostles
we're there aud they got together. He
commenced to walk from our encamp- |
nent across this barren desert. this |
'aSe plain without any guide 10 MAJ, |
lnything aDpertHining to the future of |
ne children of men In this land. Presi- |
lent Young was quite feeble. lie wore |
Us littie green cloak upon his |
nouidefs ana he walked slowly along. |
As We advanced from below ON to the |
Using ground we came Ia "A certain |
POT where he stopped very suddenly. |
lie took his cane. which had a spike |
y the end Of It. and stuck it down into |
ne grolnd,and said Here shall stand |
ne Temple of our God" 1t went |
hrough me like lightning. did not |
insult him, the Prophet OF God by ask
ng him who told him so. What was
here here to encourage the Prophet
y fod To make n remark of that kind? |
Nhat had he to trust to to build Il
'emple here that would cost four mill
IONS of dollarsY Instead Of having |
round him hundred thousand work.
ng men with millions of money In
and he had one hundred and forty
men. We We're sore and tired and
cary. without any money IN our
ockets and still the Prophet OF God |
ticks his cane into the ground and |
avs, fHere shalt stand the Temple OF
ur Cod ] asked him to stop there
III ! could break piece OF sage brush
r something that 1 could drive down
lto the place. ! did nothing else un-
u / put n stake In that spot that he
lnrked with his cane, and then we
'ent on about our business, But when
listened to his words that first night
nat we spent in this barren desertand
hen he told us here was going to
land the Temple OF our God, ] knew |
nat man spoke by the Spirit of Al
tightly God. ] knew IL from the Spir-
that was resting upon me- ] was
ltished II would all be fulfilled,
What has been the result? Before |
on, he lived here. He Ibid the foun-
ntloL of that Temple, and there
.pol the stat In the middle Of that |
emple when ii was laid out, without
NY regard TO his prophecies or say
'ss These things rested with great
eight upou my mind as ! looked up
n tho mighty througs celebrating | I
lr event o. he Pioneers into the val !
SO Of the mountains. There stands !
rat Templo today with its spires. or | Z