The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-02-14
SM|THPRES|DES, BUT
DOES NOT PREACH
Elders Wells and SjOdahI 0c-
cupy Pulpit at Sunday Tab
ernacle Services.
PRAYERS IN BEHALF
OF WINDER'S HEALTH
Suggestion Made That the TEN
pie Grounds Should Be
Cleaned UP.

Joseph T. Smith, president OF the Nor
mon church. presided at the services in
the Tabernacle Sunday afternoon, but lie
did not bear testimony TO the truth oi
the gospel. This duty was allotted TO
Elder Rulon S. Wells and Editor j. NJ,
SJodahl of the evening organ OF the
Lord. In the prayers offered at the
service special suppllcation was made for
The restoration TO health OF John S.
Winder. who is now suffering from pneu-
uonia
In passing let It be said that some
thing should be done TO put the walks
In Temple square in passable condition.
II is true that there was q rapid thaw
Sunday, but on the slightest proyocatiou
the walks in the grounds became a sea
OF mud and you almost have TO swim
20 reach the Tabernacle, This could
easily be avoided by putting down plenty
of gravel and it should be done not only
for the benefit OF the worshiper but also
for the tourist and visitor,
Wells Speaks Of Church Work.
After the usual preliminary exercises
Rulon s. Wells the first speaker, took the
rostrum. Elder Wells said that those
who were not actively engaged in the
work OF the church needed looking after,
they were not standing In places of
safety. In the world Of today" said
be, there seems TO have arisen a cassi-
dcation OF those who engage in religion.
There are those who are expected to en-
gage IN the ministry, and there are
those who have no active part to per-
form. Sometimes they are classified un-
der the names OF clergy and laity. BY
clergy presume they mean the preach
ers; by lalty l presume they mean those
members of the different churches who
have no active part To perform. OF course
they are supposed To be leading Chris
aan lives. but so far as the ministry is
l thank God that no such condition pre-
walls in the Church OF Christ We have
no laymen among us. but every man and
every woman is expected To engage In
the ministry and labor for the salvation
OF the soul OF the children of men, The
Important part to US IS that each man
work assigned 10 him and shall perform
that work we'll
Ward Teachers Work.
Elder Wells then spoke of the work OF
the various church organizations. He re-
ferred specially TO the work OF the ward
teachers saying IT was their duty to see
that there was no inlquity in the church
and see that the saints attended TO their
sacramental duties and Offices and II
any failed what terrible results might fol-
low. Every one should be concerned in
his own ministry and should not be
criticising the ministry of some one else
they should look to their own spiritual
development,
Sometimes it has been said" con-
tinued Elder Wells. that our ministry
II relates TO dollars and cents. but
want 10 emphasize this truth that we are
the best paid ministry in all the world.
for every one that labors for the es-
tablshment OF Zion and performs the
duty assigned TO him he will receive the
reward OF having the approval of Cod
After an anthem rendered by the choir
Elder and Editor j: NJ. Sjodanl took the
stand. He said that the gathering OF
the people IN Zion was for spiritual and
not for financial purposes, because It
hs clA hsf
church that st is huge financial scheme
1t is not true. True Latter-day Saints"
said the elder; SHOULD give their lives.
iatellectuality, their gifts. all of them
should be placed on the altar of the |
Lord as a sacrifice that the gospel OF
Jesus may be preached unto all the
Sjodahl on Romanism.
Elder. Sjodahl then made brief re-
view of the faiths OF the world. Com
Ing 20 Romanisin. he said; Roman |
Catholicism has given to the world a
great many good things and civilization
Is greatly indebted TO that system, but II |
is nevertheless fact that IL has failed |
to save the world. and we ilnd that wher-
ever We so under that system familiar
conditions to those that we have en-
countered In Russia" Speaking OF Prot |
estantism the elder said they. owed much |
10 the reformation, but IT is never,he- |
less fact that the names OF the people |
living in Protestant countries had not |
been saved. They are struggling today |
as much as they ever did during the |
old feudal times to throw of the yoke |
of oppression and enjoy the liberty to |
which they are entitled
After defining salvation, as he under
stood It, Elder Sjodahl said: LAS long as
man still stands arrayed against man in
deadly combat. as long as classes are |
divided against classes; as long as the
rights OF the weaker are tramped upon
by the stronger, so long the world has
not been saved and so long we are I'm
need of the gospel OF Jesus Christ to be
preached TO every creature In the world"