The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-05-18
TABERNACLE SERVICES.


Sunday we're opened by tae choil
singing the hymn beginning:
Great God, indulge my humble claim;etc
Prayer by Elder snelgrove.
Choir:
How great the wisdom aud the love, etc
ELDER ORsoN PRATT addressed taC
congregation, reading frat, from tht
xiv chapter of Revelations, as follows
beginning with the 14th verse.
And I looked, and behold q white
cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like
unto the son of man, having on his heac
a golden crown, and in his hand a SHARP
| sickle.
And another angel came out of the
/ temple, crying with loud voice 10 him
| that sat on the cloud, Thrust IN thy
] sickle, and resp: for the time Is come foi
thee to resp; for the harvest of the esrtl
IS ripe.
And be that sat on the cloud thrust in
bis sickle on the earth; and the earth wa:
resped.
And smother angel came out of the
temple which is in heaven, he also having
sharp sickle.
And another angel came out from the
altar which had power over fire; and
cried with loud cry TO him that had the
sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp
sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine
Of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
And the angel thrust in his sickle into
the earth, and gathered the vine of The
earth, and cast ii into the great wine
press of the wrath Of God.
And the winepress as tTodden without
the city, and blood came out ofthe wine
press, even unto the horse brides, by the
space of a thousand and six hundred
furlongs.
He also read ths 9th verse, as fol-
lows, together with other extracts
from the same chapter.
And I saw another angel fly in the
midst Of heaven, having the everlasting
gospel TO preach unto them that dwell on
the earth, and to every nation, and kin
dred, and tongue, and people.
Elder Pratt said he would read no
particular portion Of the Scriptures,
but would endeavor to speak concern.
ing s0me of the subjects about WhicI
be hsd been reading. What be bad
read taught that come great event
would take place on the earth, that
the Lord would send some OF bis
angels, to restore the everlasting
gospel. The period referred to when
this would occur would be at the end
OF the world, which meant not the
end OF the earth, but the end OF the
inhabitants thereof. jesus, in reDre-
senling the destruction that would
come on the world, likened it unto the
food OF Moab, when the wicked we're
destroyed. The people would be
unprepared for the coming of the
son OF maB. The inhabitants would
say Tomorrow will be as this day,
therefore let us eat and drink and be
but they would be asleep ae
10 the coming OF the Savior. We
might AK why the inhabitants should |
be unprepsred for so important an
event? Would not the Lord give
them warning? He would, most
certainly, as predicted in the revsla-
ton that be had read. An angel of
the Lord would come with MESSAGE
to al peopl;. That message would |
be the everlasting gospel. That Cos
pei would be the same that was
preached in the beginning, q gospel
Of Joy and blessing. The message
would be to them that dwell on the
earth, to every kindred, tongue and
people. All would have this gospel
proclaimed in their ears. TIE gospel
Of ancient times was brought by
Christ himself, who commanded men
to preach it to others. In the last |
days, Christ said the gospel should be |
sent By an angel, and not brought by |
him, as formerly. Had tots gospel |
ever been brought to the earth by an
sugel, since the days of Christ? The
Roman Catholic Church, the oldest
church in existence, did not claim
hat they had received the gospel by
al angel. They asserted that the |
canon Of Scripture was full, and that
here wss no more communication |
with God. Had Luther, Calvin, or
my of the Protestant dissenting |
churches received any angels? They
aid that they had seen no angels,
lad received no revelations from
heaven. which latter hal became
ealed up against them. Now, tho
peaker asked, should il not be about
inc for the angel TO come? Fifty
-esrs ago that angel did come, and
UTILIZED That ancient prophecy. He
appeared to q poJr boy, in New York
Joseph Smitb) and told him where
le could find certain plates, and
him to organize the
hurch of God on the earth. II was
strange thing in the minds OF this
enerStion that an untaugnt, illiterate
Outh, should receive a command
rom a holy angel to organize the
hurch of God. II the church we're
lTeady on the earth, how unneceE-
airy would it be to send an angel to
rganize ii7 The fact vas, there was
o such thing on the earth, as the
hurch of God when that command !
} Joseph Smith was given, and mas.
luch rs the church Was not here, it
laa necessary that it should be estab-
shed and the gospel be preached
gain, 10 ell nations, when the end
Iould come. To that ignorant, I'M
ducated farming boy, was the gospel
ommitted; he was ordained and
commanded 10 preach IT IN its purity
s it was in ancient times; when the
igns as they were formerly seen,
7ould follow those who believed
Imong the Ohristisn churches OF the
az there was no authority to bap-
.ze, or perform any of the ordinances
f the gospel, hence the signs did not
GLOW tile believers In the forms OF
he religions OF the world. The first
principles OF the gospel were, to be-
ieyo in the Lord Jesus Christ, that
he was the son OF God; believe in the
emission OF sins-in repentance frsI
md baptism afterwards for the re-
mission OF Eins, but one who baptized
must be authorized by God to perform
he ceremony. After baptism, might
ONE the holy ghost by the laying
Il OF hands by those having author
y TO DO so. All did not have thst
nor did 81 in ancient
ime. These we're the first principles
4 the gospel, and were what must be
eceived and obeyed in order for
,erson to become a member OF the
.ingdom OF God. When the Lord
authorized Joseph Smith ID restore