The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-10-10

: without the gospel? All Christendon
I answers be cannot be; but they d.
: not believe IN the one gospel. ID,
' they all take their faith from what i
: in the Bible? Yes, they take thei
faith from il. DO not want to TAX
] any negative points here; it 10 no
} pleasant. only want 10 take those
: positive points which embrace cur re
ligion. We believe in the regenera
!, ltion OF this tabernacle, which hsa {
spirit. We are ted the body and the
Esprit is The soul OF man, and that the
! resurrection from the dead is the re
dempsion of the soul. which comes
through him who bas declared thai
the poor and the meek of tue earth
shall inherit H. They are TO inherit
the earth, 60 said Jesus, the great law
giver, the great Redeemer, than
whom no man ever spoke like him.
none has ever succeeded; none ever
preceded him; even him who under
stood the plan for the redemption Of
fallen mspsb 1t has been said, in one
passage, if all thAt he had said were
written the world could not contain the
books; then how is it that it claimed
ell he has spoken had been put in the
Bible? Many Of you, my brethren
of the Seventies, have gone sisr of
and returned; many will 60 to the
nations of the earth. Is it not strange?
1t is strange to the world, and it is
strange 10 me. Are there dangers in
the way? Yes. many of them. And
how can you. l ask you, my breth-
rem, avoid all the dangers unless you
are guided by the spirit of your
mission and ministry That will
clethe your spirit against al your
passions, aDd the power of God will
lead you on. No doubt but il 10
strange to many persons; but it is
true. / can tell you something; am
witness. 1t ia forty eight years
since l knew that God had come and
bad made provision to save the
world. knew it before as every body
else knew it. Did know it for my
self No. The council has sent tens
of thousands to the different portions
OF the earth, and to every nation
where the government would allow q
stranger bearing new faith to come
snd hold forth. The governments of
France, Prussia. Italy, China, and
others, have banishtd them. All who
have gone under the influence and
direction OF that holy and mysterious
! influence that rested on them
and cheered them up have re.
turned. When they got through,
amid all the disasters that have
taken place in forty.eight years,
there has never been a vessel bearing
Latter-day Saints gone to the bottom
of the sea. In 1879, l think I read
OF nineteen steamships, going down,
and with the exception of two, all
on board went down TO the bottom.
Were there any Lat:er-dsy Saints On
these ships thtn7 No; not that We
know of. Is this Boosting? No; it is
giving the glory to God. Our mission
aries have seen the angels of the
Lord guiding the chips safely to
hsrbor, when all their sails and
rudders were gone. Is not this a
miracle? | think it is. Tee flame
that burma within the heart can never
be quencbed. They have tried t.
quench It with fires, with prosecutions,
with fagots, and with cruoifxions,
but it burned just as brightly as ever.
1t remained where the Lord had put
it, and always will until We turn away
and quench it ourselves. Then my
brethren of the Seventies, keep it
within you; be guarded, and do not
allow yourself to be led away by
wrong, when on your missions. Shall
I go. says one? Yes; brethren, go.
1 will suppose you have wife and
three children. To them you owe a
mission, the greatest that God can
give you. A mission by your example,
by your prayer, by your duties as
father and a husband. Teach
them, and remember that the
grsatsst Lessons are taught US by
example. II you are angry
with them when you should not De,
you should take the words back.
When am wrong the light has gone
away from my house and my
mission, and when want light there
again should take the wrong away,
and then the light will chime again
in all its fullDess. Can persons go
on q mission when they do not treat
their family we'll? No; they are not
fit for it. But treat them as you
should, and when you are called, go
and leave your family, in the cot
tage, in the howell if you will, giving
your dear boon to the care OF God.
do not think it is worth while for sill
who GO forth into the word to preach
to tell the people of the terrors c. the
Law. lido not believe in soaring them
to heaven. l certainly know that
the gospel ia quiet, gentle, soothing
spirit that takes hold in the heart OF
people, and ere they are aware of it,
they are acquainted with it. Since
Jesus was on on the earth. there has
never been heard a voice like his; it
was such as never man spoke before
or since, because it filled all and was
all that wal needed. 1t was the
sweetest that ever was heard. Oh,
could we know and feel that spirit by
which he was actuated; that spirit
which brought him to this world and
made him endure all that he had to
suffer, to expiste the sins OF man
and redeem lost mortsls. When you
90 forth do not presume to attack
lanybody's faith, but show ours
with q meek spirit and kind words,
and when you win them, and they
are baptised, they will be convinced
OF the truth of what you told them,
and know that which before they only
believed. But when you go to the
world to preach, leave your family
with all the comforts you can and
see that the children are provided for.
My faith il that which gives poor
saints something 10 do when they and
their families need. l never turned
away q person who asked for work tc
get food for his family. 1 would LEI
them thrown stones from one place
to another and then back again u
| need be, ard pay them what / could
| Do not hoard up your wealth, bnI
help all the poor who ask for work II
order that they can obtain food for
their families. The spirit tbstshould
actuste those asking for work should
be like the person came to me.
asked him what he wanted and h'
said: "Give me what my labor il
worth to your" Too many want gres