Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1906-04-27
Sunday Services.

snooLor He said in part: 81 am
Ola 10 be with you again and to
nor,ok Of the spirit of your meetings.
| s,nco the great calamity on the
Pacific coast 1 have been thinking of
things never thought of before. l
was in Salt Lake when the news of
tho disaster reached there. 1t seemed
20 cast a gloom over the city and my
tbonobts went back tossthe time when
tho ANAL band of Mormons left their
homes in the East, braved the perils
OF the prairies and mountains to find
a place where they could worship
their God as they saw fit. Some in
the company wanted to go on to Cali
forn;a 10 settle. The land there was
better did not need the cultivation
that n needed in Utah and was more
productive, but Pres. Young said this
is the place and the calamity that
has Jus. happened there is additional
evidence to me that he was inspired
when picking the epot on which to
settle.
Pres. Young recognized the situa-
tion. He saw that IL we were living
on the Pacific we would mix with the
world and would be influenced by
their influences. There 1t would be
impossible to do our duty as Latter
Day Saints. We would be in the
race for pecuniary gain.
The great disaster 10 also evidence
to me of the feIiority Of man when
trying to depend upon himself.
Here in Utah the people are safe,
but il disasters do visit us we who
live lives of Latter Day Saints to the
best of our ability will have reward
that cannot be destroyed by any
person or thing but ourselves. :"
A. L. Neff said, "Benj. Franklin
once received manuscript from
noted infdel putting forth his ideas
ON religion, After he had read it
over he sent it back with this COM
ment II the world is so bad with
religion how much worse would it be
without it, II the people only
could conceive what the world would
be without the inspiring, uplifting
influence of religion they would
change thier minds. The influence
of the chruch is not as great as it
should be, and this is also true of the
family and school. No agent is
doing, CHAT it should do.
II TO think of the possibility
OF th. S.5 "a mad and then to think
of the actual condition of it. am
often reminded of the saying that as
God Dc, man may become. In think
ing of the possibilities of man in the
short time he is allowed to stay on
this sphere of action and then of his
possibilities were he able to stay here
so, 600 years, it does not seem strange
that he would become as God is.
often | 60 up on the Sugar Loaf
and there look over st. George and
think of its opportunities, possibili-
ties and its condition. know that
there are many good, Industrious
people in this town, those who will
benefit the town and everybody in it
and there are also the opposite.
We are subject to fewer tempta-
tions in place like this than in
larger city. The condition of affairs
in San Francisco surprised me very
much. There l saw the people using
Sunday as day of amusement rather
than day of rest. All the play
houses, good and bad, we're open and |
ioing good business. 1t is possible
in a place like this to have a model
community which is not possible in
larger city, but the people do not
nave the cooperative spirit that they
hould have"
j. I. Atkin referred to the destruc-
ion of Sodom and Camera and
Illustrated it by referring to the great
alamity that has just befallen Cali
ornia. Said California is beautiful
ountry. Many good people live
here, though they are Indifferent in
egard to religion. People are
here to enjoy life and they do it all
he time, especially Sundays.