The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-07-20
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the choir singing the hymn begin
ming:
Great God attend while Zion sings.
Prayer by Bishop Raleigh.
Choir:
Wen sing all praise to Jesus name.
ELDER ORsoN PRATT addressed the
congregation, first reading a revela.
ton from God 10 Joseph Smith, con.
corning the origin of evil on this
World, as related in the story OF Adam
and Eve. The Lat:er-day Sainte did
not consider that that was the first
evil, or this the first creating, bu! that
God had always been at work, there
having been many worlds before this
was formed. But the story that he
mad read seemed to be the account of
the origin of evil, so far as this world
vas concerned. The inhabitants of
heaven who were selected to come on
this earth, were agents as much as
We we're; they had laws with penal
ties fixed for their violation; they
could keep the law or break it. as
we'll az ne could. We have an &C.
count of the Lord saying that be-
cause Satan transgressed, the Lord
vas displeased. Satan sought to
destroy the agency of the heavenly
hosts; he rebelled and sought to turn
away the family Of heaven, and sue
ceeded in leading away about one
third part OF them. They thought to
destroy the agency of man, and God
being displeased with them, thrust
them down out OF heaven. One OF
the spirits had been put upon the
earth in a body of hesh and bones, in
the Garden of Eden, and Satan ap-
peared to him and tried TO induce
him to break the law. Satan did not
succeed with Adam, but he Induced
his wife, Eve, to trsnsgress, and she
caused Adam to follow her example.
Elder Pratt was of the opinion that
Eve was deceived by satan, but Adam
was not, as the latter knew that il he
partcOk not OF the forbidden fruit, he
and Eve would be separated and the
first command of God for them to
the world would not be
fulfilled; hence he psrtook of the
fruit and the two were cast out to-
and began their work Of peo-
ping the earth. When Adam and
Eve were placed upon the earth they
we're immortal, and not subject to
pain. Il was contrary to the infinite
goodness of GOO to make q being sub
ect to pain and affection without
The mortality OF our first
parents came by transgresaion and
in. Two immortal beings were
in the Garden of Eden, and
hey were commanded to be fruitful
and multiply their species. That
command opened to Us a great field
or reflection concerning the demands
If the Almighty. 1t impaired to US
knowledge that God intended i'm
mortal beings to multiply their
ipecies. There was no command in
he Scriptures that Adam and Eve
we're to multiply their species after
he fall, when they had become NOR
but they did 20, and the conse-
was that mUrtals we're born.
The parents having become mortal, |
10 pain and death, their chill
iren we're ike them. Mortal bsings
,ould not bring forth immortal chill
Mortal children have been
born ever since and will be until the
earth has filled the measure of its
;reaticn. The speaker said the time
nust come when Adam and Eve
would fulfill the command to them
1efore they became mortal The
command would be fulfilled after
hey were r~esurrected, and ne believed
hey had been resurrected among the
iaints who we're resurrected when
Christ 0 from the dead, and that
hey had brought forth immortal sons
md daughters since their resurrec-
ion. The Christian world had not
.ooked forth into the great future,
lad not thought of immortal beings
producing immortal children, yet
he command of God would not be
UTILIZED unless that were done. Re
ierring to the subject OF marriage
Elder Pratt said among Christians
he marriage was binding only until
ieath. TIE La,tsr-1ay Saints had a
marriage that continued through
eternity. They did not think much
O marriage that must be dissolved
md broken up by death. Death
nav separate the two for a short
but it does not divorce them.
# the Adam or the Eve should die,
md 60 to heaven, the other did not
consider that he or she was divorced
rom wife or husband, bat that the
NO were separated only for a brief
one being on the earth, the
,ther in heaven. Further, nc mar
that was performed without the
authority OF Gcd, that is, no marriage
performed by ajustice of the peace,
! minister of one Of the Christian"
or BY any n who had not
power to seal on earth and have 1t
sealed in heaven, would be recog-
nized by the Lord. When death
occurred the separation was final and
God had revealed himself TO
The saints, and given authority to
marriage, hence their mar
were not only for time, but for
eternity. When those who became
in different parts OF the world,
came here with their wives and fami-
lies they investigated, and learning
that their marriages we're by mems
authority only and that after death
they would have no claim upon their
families, they were married by divine
authority. Sons and daughters must
DE sealed to tie man by one having
authority from God to seal, otherwise
there could be no claim upon them in
the morning Of the resurrection. a
man might have a second wife, Who
hes been married according to the
l- ,r man tho frat wife hRiup