The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-07-07
TABERNACLE SERVICES.

The services in the Tabernacle O
Sunday afternoon were largely after
ded, the building being well filed
his being the closing day of th
semi-anDual conference of the Sa
Lake Stake. The choir SAM tn
hymn beginning:
Sweet is the work. my God, my King, etc
Prayer by Bishop Crane, OF HERR
man.
Choir:
How sweet communion, etc.
ELDER JOSEPH F. SMITH addressed
the congregation. He said it was tht
duty OF the saints Ia so live that they
could at all times enjoy the spirit o.
the Lord that would ct any time
enable them to perform the lsborl
they we're called upon to do. II an
elder were called upon to speak he
should comply, even without special
preparation, and ought not to be ct a
loss for q subject. The gospel which
they believed in embraced all truth,
no mater where found; but this was
not saying that the people who pro-
fessed belief in the gospel possessed
all truth. They possessed the truth
only in proportion to their intelli-
gence. When they possessed all
knowledge they would possess all
truth. Referring to the matter OF
the Lord debating to men in ten
poral affairs, the peaker asked why
God should not guide and control
men temporarily as well as spiritually?
In the wcrld it had come to be that a
man to be prosperous, must commit
his body to the doctor, his purse to
the lawyer and bis soul 10 the minis
ter. and one was not supposed to in
terfere with the other. The speaker
believed the Lord had az much right
to control men in their temporal
affairs as il their spiritual. A mans
spiritual hereafter depended upon bis
temporal conduct. 1t had always
seemed strange that God could not
instruct and guide man temporarily,
when 30 much depended upon his
temporal conduct. Man owed every
hing of g physical nature to God.
as the earth belonged to the Lord and
the fitness thereof. No man who
was born into the world, brought
with him houses, lands or other prop
erty. He cams here destitute and
though he might be prosperous and
on earth when he dies he
leaves all behind him. He can take
nothing with him that Belongs to the
earth. This fact should convince any
person that We could claim
as our Own. All WAS here
before We came, and will be here
after we are gone. Others had owned
what we now possess. before We Oh
tanned it, and others will possess it
after we are gone. We may hold
property and use it for cur own COM
fort, but it is not ours. 1t belonged
to God. It was the Lord who con-
trolled these thing. He giveth and
be tsketh away. Wat the speaker
was STRIVING for wGs a reward here
after for fsithfulness. and good actions
here upon the earth; a reward OF
eternal life in God kin gdom. He
knew that whcsoever shall live cody
GihEiat b6f2SaFlIu EeQelEs. there:
Of it. God will reward those who
work for salvation and deserve it.
It was said God was not re<pecter
Of persons and in one way he wGs not,
yet in another he was. God respects
not the apparel. habitations or pre-
tentions OF men. Tae poor man who
serves God with all his heart, is as
acceptable to God as the rich man
who serves him With. all his heart.
God was a respecter OF persons in
that he would hear the prayer OF the
fervent man when be would not hear
and answer the prayer of the proud
as6 Maynard. God would not listen
to the prayer OF the Pharisee, no
natter now correctly worded, but be
would accept the prayer OF the
humble, the lowly, and the righteous,
but those who are hard-hearted, proud
and vain will rot be acknowledged.
God respects those who obey the
truth, who respect themselves snt
their fellow creatures, for this was
part of the law OF God. What man
possessed he was permitted to occupy
for his comfort and the good oil others.
It was committed to his care that be
might render an account OF his
On the judgment day.
Ali that was on the earth had baen
Gre ated by God for the benefit OF his
children. He owned it all. Then
why should man say God had no
right to guide and direct him in bis
temporal Affairs? 1t was Lot the in
telligent man who denied the right
OF God to dictate to him. 1t
was the ignorant and wicked who
denied this right. God should be
found and heard everywhere, in Con-
gress and legislative halls, by judges,
by all officials, by farmers and
mechanics, one just as much as
another. Elder Smith once heard an
eminent preacher say before coz
gregation Of 5000 persons in Liver
pool, that God was not drawn out
towards the righteous and tGe sane,
but his love, his kindness and a1ec-
tons were drawn out towards the
vicked and we~Lesisded. Ia n4~A
the preacher referred to
the parallels OF the pro1igal son, and
the 10Y in heaven over one sinner
that repenteth more than over ninety
and nine just persons which need no
repentance; and as illustration
that the moment Adam partook Of
the forbidden fruit and became a
sinner, Cots love and affection we're
extended to him. Elder Smith did
not believe in that doctrine. The
greater the affection OF a man for
God, the greater was God 3
love for him. The parable OF
the prodigsl waa true; but
the fatted calf was not killed
because the son had sinnsd, hut be
cause be had repeated and forsaken
his evil ways, and become son OF
God, and there was prospect OF his
being saved. He bad heard that
.-oooh.. cav that M man