The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-11-02
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And let ourjoys be known,
Join IN song with sweet accord,
And worship at his throne.
Prayer by Elder R. V. Morris. Tn
cheir sang the hymn on page 403:
/, While Of these emblems we pArtake,
= In Jesus name and for his FAKE,
j Let US remember 10 be sure
Our hearts and hands are clean and pure
4 ELDER WILFoRD WOODRUFF spoke,
q commencing by reading from the
r l4th chapter of the Revelations OF St.
: John He had not read these verses
because he proposed to confne him
self 10 the subiec! set forth in this
chapter, because be raroly confined
i, hlmselfto = text The prophets and
the apostles who have spoken regard.
ing the word OF God have told the
truth. They meant what they said, and
said what they meant. Tue Bible lie
full of prophecies concerning the lat
ter days. and | will refer particularly to
the revelation Of Daniel, showing that
the God Of Heaven would set up
kingdom in the last days which would
never be thrown down. None Of the
wise men could interpret the dream OF
, Nebuchadnezzar; but Daniel had his
/ mind quickeaed by the spirit of God
and did reveal the purport OF the
IdTeam, which showed that God Weuld
establish bis kingdom in the last
days. 1t has, in the providence of
God, been your fortune TO stand in the
| flesh Whsn God has set up his king
dom on the earth which is to be
thrown down no more. There Is no
subject ever revealed to man that has
been as unpopular as the religion OF
Jesus Christ. There is no subject or
thing that iucites the world so much
against man and makes it so bitter
as when being lie raised to preach
the gospel to the people of the world.
| defy anyone to show me where any
apostle or prophet of God WAS ever
popular from the day of Gain and |
Able down. While upon the Isle Of
Patmus the mind OF John, the evan
gelist, was opened and be was enabled |
to lay before the minds OF the people |
the great judgments of the last
days which were to follow the in
habitants of the earth before the |
coming OF the SAVER. will also note |
here that God has never brought any |
general judgment upon the cities of
the earth but be has first raised up
man to warn the inhabitants oil the
Judgments which we're TO come TO |
them. When CIrist came to the |
Jews their high priests we're the ones
who opposed him most They eX-
pected him to come as an emperor to
hberate them from the Gentiles; but
be was born in q manger, bis mother
was Mary and his reputed father g
carpenter; SO they prosecuted him,
and only allowed him to live three
years after he had entered upon his
ministry. Paul warned the GentiIes
against committing the same error
into which the Jews had fallen, and
have the gospel taken away from
them. But the Gentiles did not give
head to ths advise OF the Apostle
Paul, and united with the Jews to
prosecute the disciples of the Savior.
Hence the world has been l, 400 years
without sesing the face OF a prophet
or having an organization Of the
church. The Lord has DoW ssat an
angel through the heavens declaring
the everlasting gospel and this Is
why tay it is great blessing 10 you
saints that you live in this day. The
Lord sent an angel to Joseph Smith
over fifty years ago. Joseph went
into the forest to ask the Lord What
be should do, and while there the
Lord revealed himself to the boy and
told him not to Join any of the
churches OF that day as they we're all
wrong. He finally received the records
Of the Book Of Mormon, and received
the ministrAtionE Of John the Baptist,
and the Aarouic priesthood, without
which DO man had any right to per-
form the ordinances of the church
He also received the apostleship from
Peter, James and John. There can
be no doubt about the truth of these
to him; and when
Joseph received that aposilsship it set
100, 900 devils wild in the spirit world.
From the very first hour thst the
ministrations we're commenced by
him the spirits of the wicked entered
heshy tabernAoles and commenced
the prosecutions Of the prophet. The
gospel revealed to Joseph Smith mas
been preached to ihs world for Fifty
years, snd as far as tho elders have
been able. he lived nearly fourteen
and half years after be had received
the gospel and until be re-
ceiyed every key to this dis
pensation. After repeated per-
secutions, from which he always
escaped because he was innocent, be
was mertyred, having finished the
work for which he was raised and Tor
which be had been kept in the spirit
world for ZOO years. Had the gospel
we have preached been false, where
would We have been to-day? Utah
would have been as barren IS 1t was
in July, 1S47. The principles are
true and you know it for yourself; you
have all the evidence before you. All
the world will, in time, be arrayed
against this people. One OF the rea-
sons you have that this work is true Is
because the world hate you. They
say it ia because Of polygamy, but be-
fore We had any revelation regarding
polygamy at all, this people endured
the worst prosecutions. They then
told US it was because We believed in
revelations and apostles. PolyEsmy
is only handle by which to persecule
uV. What does the government or
the people care about polygamy7 |
Why have We prophets, to-day, and
temples and the benefits of the Cos
Del? Because it is the decree of God. |
He has set his hand to establish |
mis- kingdom forever on the earth,
and prepare the people for |
the coming of the Son OF Man; here
is the key to the whole thing. The
difference between the saints and those
who oppose the gospel is very slight,
for the way is narrow and straight; 1t
is because it requires faith, and this Is
an age of infi1elity. We hear men cay
TO day: We care not how good God
msy be, We 90 not want him TO inter.
iere In our politics and temporal
affairs; but these men, whether Gea
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