The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-04-06
TWO DAYS MEETINGS.


i lated the people that we have Il
T privilege OF meeting in this new ha
i which would be dedicated when con
g pleted. On the 9th day of Apr
next the church will have bee
organized fifty yesrs, and We ms
with propriety call it year ofJubile
We have much reason ID rejoice an
feel grateful that our father has pr,
served US during tine past fifty yea
and that We have assurance that b
will continue to do 60. He asked fC
the faith and prayers OF the congregs
: ton tina! the twelve and other speal
ers might have power to bring fort
valuable and rich principles durin
these meetings and the approachin
conference.
ELDER w. WOODRUFF said: Sool
will fifty years be past and gone sine
the organization of the church o
God. Whatever the feelings Of thu
world may be concerning this Worl
it matters not so far as the WorB
itself is concerned. 1t is the work O
God; the same that Isaiah and othel
prophets foresaw. In the world;
history no fifty years have been
OF greater Importance than the
Etty years through which we have
just passed. When l call to mind
that fifty years have passed sinca the
book of revelations was given, | Rek
myself the question. What Is our
condition ss pertaining to the COM
mRndmentT given for the building up
OF Zion, and the establishment OF
righteousness and the will of God ?
Fifty years ago the Lord said: "Ityou
believe these revelations go to and
prupe my vineyard while it is yet to
day." In ny view, We. as Latter-day
Saints, are approaching important
events, a great change in the world.
The Lord has said be would cut his
work short in righteousness in the
latter days. Nearly all of the breth,
rem who we're living and working in
the early foundation of this church
have passed away. Joseph Smith re-
manned only fourteen years after the
OF this church-he re-
NAMED until ne had received all the
Keys of the priesthood and of this
iispensation, and when he had re-
ce!ved these and had power to confer
them upon others, the Lord called
him away. If this is the ZION OF
God ioreordained before the world
was, what manner of men ought we
to be? In my reflections on these
things l feel that no elder should
have anything else TO do than tu
build up this Kingdom. Sometimes
people spesk of Rpostacy. It makes
20 difference with the Lord who keeps
lis commandments or who does not.
He has got some valiant spirits
who viii stand firm snd will be the
which GCd will use to
firmly his kingdom. Many
will lose their faith, privileges, a9d
the hopes of eternal reward, but there
will be a sufficient number who will
be faithful and true, and will bear of
Joe responsibilities of this kingdom.
The nearer We can draw to the Lord |
mere, the nearer we shall draw to him
after death. The kingdom has gone
onward, it never has gone backward !
since Its fret organization. When | |
cox at our halls and temples, school !
houses, meeting houses, farms,
gardens and other evidences OF
industry and progress l see that the |
work is onward, for ell these things |
20 to the building up of the Kingdom
If God. The speaker then stated |
hat he had spent a year last past in
he southern country. seven or eight
months he had spent st Sunset, and
4 all that time, he had not seen man
lor boy use any tobacco in any shape |
neither tea nor coffee, nor had ne |
heard an oath nor a quarrel, but in |
each of those camps on the Little |
Colorado, living In the United Order, |
The greatest Of good feeling had pre-
vailed. He had visited a number of |
Indians in their settlements, and he |
could safely say that there never was
4 greater untruth told by Lucifer, the |
Son Of the Morning. than that the |
La!tar-dsy Saints had furnished the |
Indians with powder and arms to |
Kill the whites. The Lo,d is prepar-
ng the way with the Lamanites to |
iulfl the promises made to their fore
fathers.
ELDER MCsEs THATCHER said we
we're engaged IN the work OF our
heavenly father; we ere living in the
lay o! the world that the prophets of
5ssl times have looked forward to
With Joy and rejoicing. Whatever
nay be the feelings of The people Of
he world towards US, one fact is
apparent to us anu to them, and that
8 that we are growing; the kingdom |
1t God is being built up. We have
oeen seeking for years to introduce
he gospel 10 the Lamanites, but until
it has been apparent that
their hearts were not ready to receive
it. We were kindly received and
treated inMexico, where Br. Woodruff
and l have lately been, and we feel
thai q good work will be done in the
Republic OF Mexico. Nearly one half
Of the inhabitants of that country are
pure blooGed Indians. At the time
of the conquest by the Spaniards in
1920. they were then an enlightened
people and had many OF the arts and
sciences in active use, especially in
and their mode of the
computation of time. They had a
written history and many Libraries Of
books of history and useful infoTms-
ton, but the Catholic priest who fcl-
lowed Co1tsz caused their destruct o.;
still there have been preserved SUI
fcient history and tradit Ons to
the information contained
in the Book Of Mormon and the
Bible. They have a tradition of the
eight barges crossing the sea. the
and of the coming of the
Savior Oh this continent, also of a
sacred record having been concealed
in the earth. There is a remarkable
similarity in their physique to the
Jews. The report that be, the speaker,
had been sent to Mexico TO purchase
land for q colony, wss copisd in the
leading papers in the city OF Mexico,
and was the means OF introducing to
them many persons who apparently
we're very anxious that the people
should colonize in tba. country, and
were dissppoint d when told tina! his
was to preach the gospel and
not purchase land. The speaker then
related the cHuse of there being mis-
,;o,,o,;os cont To MexirO. also the