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Show I 74 MORMON WORSHIP out specifying in what it consisted, and an abuse of the Government, to which he referred rather ingeniously as " our enemies," though at times was not at all ambiguous, and spoke of " conspirators against the church by men in high places, from the head of the nation down." He declared that nowithstanding all this the church would succeed, and remarked that God had wrought greater miracles in deliver ing the Latter Day Saints from their enemies than he ever did in the deliverance of the children of Israel. Though an educated man himself, he spoke very dispar agingly of education in general, and alluded to the many apos-tacies from the faith that had occurred with young men as piring to professions. He warned the young ladies, especially, against cultivating any taste for the fine arts. This was probably suggested by the apostacy of Miss Carmichael, a young lady of liberal education, who has written and pub lished some very good poetry. Mr. Cannon is an educated man, with pleasing and refined manners, and appears to have a well- balanced mind. I am not willing, therefore, to accord to him that honesty which characterizes the great mass of the people, to which I shall refer hereafter. I have also heard the Prophet in the Tabernacle. His " say " consisted in comments upon the remarks, and a his tory of the religious life of a speaker who had preceded him ; in the hackneyed subject of faithfulness to the church, and in abuse of the Government because of what he declared was persecution and inconsistency, and as regards the latter, branched off" on political topics a little, and referred to the inconsistency of Congress, which four years ago couldn't conceive of authority enough to give the President, but now wants to take from him that delegated in the Consti tution. Among other strange remarks he made was that the Latter Day Saints were the only sane people on the subject of religion on the face of the earth. I heard the remarks of the brother to whom the Presi dent alluded. It was his first sermon in the Mormon Church, and the only one I ever heard in which there was |