Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-05-13
rl5ors B. H. Roberts and Sey-
mour 3. Young Tell OF the
Mission Of Mormonlsm.
ARE NO cLAMoRING SECT.
r, Message OF Hope and Giauness
To jew, Gentle and Remnants
OF the Land.

-. AZ the Tabernacle yesterday at-
,.-noo, was addressed by Elder d. H..
n,horts and Seymour b. Young, In
,ho auditorium We're many strangers,
-,rbers of late Corners being admitted
:. -be east gallery during the services
rho singing of the choir was excep-
,,onally good, the selections being.
,softly Beams the Sacred Dawning,"
..zo,r Great the Wisdom and the
rnven the "Hallelujah' chorus and
aGospcl Restoration" The invocation
was offered by Elder Andrew Jensen;
AMI Elder George Teasdale pronounced
he benadiction. President John Il.
Wlnder presided over tho services.
ELDER i. H. ROBERTS.
Elder Roberts said that since the day
mai tho Son Of Man assembled into
heaven, after his resurrection from
the dead. the promise that He would
yet,iru had been the hope and belief
81 his followers. Another promise
Equally relied upon was to the effect
mar Israel would be gathered H.
latter times. The message that Nor
monisin bears to the world is that the
time Of fulhllrnent OF both pledges
Is close at hand, and that the gospel
y
10 The grand contamination. The
speaker quoted from the prophecies Of
NephL relative to the great and mar
yelous things that would begin TO be
wrought among men in the days when
the record of the ancient inhabitants of
America should be carried to the gen
tilss and TO the remnants Of the land.
Elder Roberts said that such state
rnent was most bold. If made by an
impostor, for wonderful were the pre-
dlctons therein contained. The trans
formation that has taken place in the
world since the Book of Mormon was
published and issued in 1929 is as
founding. A comparison was made Of
the modes of travel, the means of COM
municaiton and the utilities enjoyed in
the early part of the last century and
those Of the present day. 1t was shown
by the speaker that the inventions Of
the Is years just past had made the
nations to become as neighbors. Have
these achievements, he asked, any
bearing or relationship with the golden
reign of peace, the millennium, looked
forward TO by believers? Answering
for himself. Elder Roberts said he be-
lieved they did. The restora ton of the
Gospel was the beginning of the
worlds reawakening, The belief had
been prevalent for ages that revelation
had ceased, until Joseph Smith pro-
such condition was not true. Again
1t was taught among men that God
was not entirely outside the cosmos
that He had created, but still was in
and controlled this earth as much as
in any age of the past. The truth re-
Nealed by the modern prophet that the
Father Of heaven and earth was as
ready and willing TO commune with His
children in latter times as in
former dispensations. marked the be-
ginning of a great reawakening and il
has been followed by floods of divine
light along other lines for the ado
Yancement of humanity.
THE STATUS OF LABOR.
Elder Roberts spoke of the differ
ence between tine condition of the labor
Ing classes of today as compared with
FORMER years Once considered mere
~ as servants, the men who toll with
their hands TO earn daily sustenance
now enjoy a far different status. Even
IN England, whose sons We're consid-
cred to be among the freest of the
free, IL was not many years ago that
the breaking of a contract on the part
OF an employe was sufficient 10 brand
him as criminal, while similar action
on the part of the employer was consid-
cred as merely affording the chance
of civil action. 1t was not until
melted out to employer and employe
alike. In this country the lines of de-
narration had never been so closely
drawn, the toiler having more choice
both as To the kind of labor he should
perform and the remuneration he
should receive therefor
Elder Roberts said that he had abso-
lutely no sympathy for the lawless-
ness sometimes engendered by labor
elements, neither with the unlawful
acts Of souleless corporations. The ar
rogance Of either is reprehensible, and
each must keep within the law. Well
conducted labor organizations are
good TO see, declared the speaker, and
they make for development and add
To human happiness.
PEACE MOVEMENTS.
The movements for universal peace
were next considered by Elder Rob
erts The first society, he said, was
formed soon after the close OF the
war Of 1912. 1t had a small beginning,
but the sentiment behind IL gained in
hlence until IL eliminated IN the great
peace conference M The Hague in
SOB and liz Il fact worthy of note
mat the United States was the first
country 10 submit q case for arbltra-
non. The voices speaking for peace
ale becoming more numerous and more
powerful.
In an these things, the speaker de-
CARED, were 10 be seen the handdeal-
ihgs OF Goa for the usnerlng In OF the
Illlennial reign, ana the gathering OF
lne elect from the ends of the earth.
ne mission OF Mormonism is 10 raise
nil ensign OF peace, Before the ulti-
mate purposes OF he Almighty are ac-
,oNplished concerning His children,
We earth win be visited with iudg-
r"1ts bit behind the dark clouds TIE
east VIII begin TO be strealted with the
IlslnE sun OF the era OF peace. The
gospel OF Christ means the redemp tihE
%. me world or II means nothing.
HoImonism Is not merely a sect among
,lf hundreds clamoring for reoogui-
non but II is world wide in lis sig
l.tance II Is optimistic and not dole
'l ln ~ aims and purposes. II has
message OF hope 10 the Jew, OF the
'emuunts OF this land and to The
GENTLE II fain would bring Joy and
li. mess 10 the world.
~ conclusion, Elder Roberts said
lnhl some day a gifted musician among
We Latter-day saints would be IN
tpired 10 set 10 music the great epic
,"ntained IN one OF the revelations OF
uoa 10 latter-dny Israel, read by the
speaker as follows;
lho Lord hath brought again Zion
me Lord hath redeemed his people,
Israel,
according TO the election OF grace.
"hlch was brought to pass by the