The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-06-14
Sunday SERVICES.

hymn was the one beginning:
My soul is full Of peace and love;
| l soon shall see Christ from above;
And angels too, the halloWed throng,
Shall join with me in holy song.
Prayer by Elder George B. Wal
lace. The choir sang
Behold the great Redeemer died,
a broken law to satisfy, etc.
APOSTLE WILFoRD WOODRUFF
addressed the congregation. He
said he looked upon the sacrament as
an ordinance of great importance to
the saints. From the days of Adam
there were sacrifices offered to God,
as type of the great sacrifice of
the Messiah, whose blood was shed
for the redemption of the world.
After that the sacrament the Lords
supper was administered as SYM
Dol of the broken body and split
blood of the Savior. Referring to the
treatment theMormOns had received
Apostle Woodruff said he would
give all denominations the privilege
of living their religion according to
the dictates of their own conscience.
God did this. He forced no one into
heaven, leaving all free to act ac-
cording to their own agency, but
holding each responsible for his
conduct. The speaker sometimes
marveled when he thought of the
feelings of the nation against the
Latter-daySaints who had never in
terfered with any other religionistS.
Freedom in religion ought to be-
come UNIVERSAL and especially in
this free American government.
The saints claimed the right to wor-
ship and believe in God, and believe
in their religion unmolested by
their fellow men, and were willing
to accord the same right to every
body else, but this right was not
granted to the Mormons. The
world was embittered against them,
because it did not understand their
principles. The world received
false reports about the saints,
and even the ministers and those
who professed to speak the truth,
were reckless in their statements
concerning the Mormons. All the
speaker asked was that the truth be
told. Now the truth was that the
Lord had raised up a prophet
Joseph Smith-and through him re-
stored the gospel to the earth in this
generation; he had revealed the
Book of Mormon containing a
record of an ancient people on this
continent. The gospel that had been
revealed was the same as that which
had been preached by Jesus Christ.
1t had been changed in no particu-
lar. There had been on the earth
many religions, but none Of them
had the gospel since the days of the
Savior, until it was restored by the
angel, as predicted by John. There
was some truth in each of
them, but the gospel was complete
in none, hence it was necessary that
it should be brought to the earth
again. The gospel taught that it was
necessary to repent and be baptized
for the remission of sins, and have
hands laid upon the head for the re-
ception of the Holy Ghost. The
organization of the church was the
same as formerly, with prophets,
apostles, teachers, etc. The saints
do not believe the Lord ever had a
church except according to this
organization. They believe in the
Bible and all the prophecies, and
that the latter will all come to pass
literally; they believe in the second
coming of Christ, i'll the judgments
of God as they have been promised;
that God has set his hand to estab-
lish his kingdom on the earth in the
Book of Mormon; that the Jews
would return and build up Jeru-
salem, and in the literal full
filment of all the prophecies.
When the gospel was presented to
the Jews they rejected it, and the
Gentiles afterwards departed from
it, when it was taken from the earth,
which was without it until God re-
stored it through his servant Joseph
Smith. Now the MOrmons were car
rying the message to every land and
country on the globe, thus carrying
out Gods commands. For this they
were prosecuted. The world said its
opposition to the MOrmOns was be-
cause the latter were polygamists,
but they were not polygamistS when
they were driven from Missouri and
Illinois. Then it was charged that
they believed in revelation, which
the Christian world said had been
done away with. If the saints were
to give up pOlygamy they
would have to give up revelation
and other principles of the gospel.
The opposition to them was because
they were Gods people and doing
His work, warning mankind of the
early fulhllment of predictions
through the mouths of His prophets
We are living in an important day.
Great changes are awaiting. There
were signs of the early coming Of
the Son of Man; but before that
coming the world must be warned,
which work the saints were per-
forming as fast as possible. Apostle
Woodruff exhorted the saints to be
diligent, true and faithful, no matter
what they had to suffer. Their des-
tiny was with God, who would take
care of them, permitting their enc
mics to go no farther than he de-