The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-06-22
TABERNACLg SERVICES.

On Sunday afternoon the services
in the Tabernacle we're opened by the
choir singing the hymn beginning:
Arise, ari-e, with joy survey, etc.
Prayer by Bishop Thomas Taylor.
Choir:
Come, follow me, the Savior said, etc.
ELDER OksoN PRATT addressed the
congregation. de read the frat ak
verses OF the fitieth Psalm, and said
1t was evident that David, when
writing what had been read, must
have been inspired by the Lord, for
the events there foTetOId were coming
to pass, and part cularly that portion
which told OF the second coming OF
thu Christ, when be shall be revealed
IN flaming fire, and there shall be
fire round about him; when lie shall
be made manifest to all people.
Preparatory to that event there should
be great gathering, which David,
as well IS others, had alluded to Is
the gathering OF the saints 10 the last
days. Many supposed that when
God came be would find the saints
sea tered over the world; but those
who so thought did not correctly read
the Scriptures. The Bible said that
IN the dIspeasation o. the
fulness OF times, there will be a
gathering OF the saints. When that
dispeDssti0n shall be ushered in the
heavens viii no longer be sealed up,
with 10 voice thereirom; but the Lord
would spesk, and call to his angels to
do the Work assigned to them in
bringing about the gathering of his !
saints David had iOretold of the |
gathering from all lands, from the
tour points of the compass; he had |
also described the country where the
assembling Was to take place. After
the gathering they we're to wan
der in the wilderness, where |
there we're no ciries. and the |
way was solitary, and their new
abode would be called the Zion OF /
latter days, and they the people OF |
Z.on. The speaker said when he was
a boy he frequently attended the
meetings held in his native state,
New York, and bad often heard
chanted the prophecy of Isaiah, tell
ing of the bringing out of the saints
from Babylon; but be did not know
the full meaning of the words. When
the saints STATED across the plains it
was solitary place, rendered more
SO by the wild beasts that roamed
over the country. The sound OF the
human voice from any city or town
was not heard for many hundred
miles. Elder Pratt here interluded q
brief account of the movement OF the
MormoDs from the Mississippi River,
to tais territory in 1846-47. When
they arrived, 10 July, they planted
some potatoes, but the ground was
Ike an ash heap, there being 10
moisture; but they damned the City
Greek, got the water on the land, and
continued planting to learn if there
we're virtue in the soil. They found
that there was iruiGiulness in the
earth. The Fame autumn showed
hundreds Of tbs saints following the
path OF the pioneers, bringing with
them enough bresdstui to sustain
them during the winter. They bad
not much property to bring, but they
came trusting in the Lord, and they
found that be did Lot desert them.
The desert was made fruitful, thus
one OF the prophecies of
Isaiah. The Lord had told the saints
that they would have to leave the
east, and 60 out into the wilderness,
and had given them certain instruC-
;ions concerning the journey. They
knew when they arrived that there
would be great immigration following,
hence they la out this city in its
large dimensions. But the town was
not too large, for the lots were all
occupied. Another prophecy regard
ing the saints was soon thereafter
fulfilled. 1t bad beea foret0ld that
there shoul1 be want and suffering,
and that the people should be tried,
but they would be rescued. These
bal come to pass literally. 10 proof
Of this the speaker relAted the cir
OF the early suferings OF
the people, the loss of their crops. the
coming of the locust plague, and the
destroying of the insects by the guIls
which devoured the locusts, and we're
a savior OF the people. The saints
believed God had directed all this, {
and they cared not whether others
believed it or not. The Lord had
continued with them, and was con-
stantly fulfilling ancient prophecy
concerning his people. He had null
Uplied their numbers, made the poor
rich. etc, as had been fOretCld by
Isaiah, and other prophets of old.
The speaker here related the parallels
OF the ten virgins, and of the net cast
into the ses aud gat ering fishes OF
all kinds, and said these were spoken
concerning the kingdom of God in
the last dispensstion, and not concern
ing the aucient kingdom when Christ
was on the earth in the flesh.
The same gathering referred to above
was also spoken of by Daniel. and
represented by him as q stone cut out
of the mountsin without hands, which
would roll forth in the world, crush
ing out of existence all other king |
doms. All the Kingdoms rot estsb-
lished by God, the governments
founded by men Weuld, a. foretold by
Daniel, pass away Ike chat before
the wind. God would gather the
righteous out from the nations OF !he
earth, and destroy the Kingdoms OF
mep, by winds, fires, and scourges.
John, the Revelator, also saw the
coming of the gospel in the last days,
and as be had seen it committed to
this world in this generation, so had
it been snI it was being procl aimed
as warning Throughout the
world, for theTighteous to come
out and be saved, before the
time of destruction came.
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