The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-09-13
SUNDAY SERVICES.

The Opening hymn in the TabeI-
nacle on Sunday afternoon was the
one beginning:
Peaiss to God, immortal praise,
FIR The love lhat crowns our days;
Bouuteous source of every JOY,
Let thy praise cur tongues employ.
Prayer by Elder w. B. Barton.
ILe Choir sang:
I know that my Redremer lives;
Wha' comfort this sWeet sentence givesl
de lives, be lives, who once WAS dead!
lie lives, my everything head!
ELDER L. B. LEWIS addressed the
congregation. He said that with q"
assistance from on high he felt in
competent to instruct the congrega-
ton in the things Of the everlasting
gospel. The field was so vast that
he would not know which branch
to treat upon without the direction
of the Lord to tell him which wOul d
be for the benefit of his hearers. The
great object of life was salvation
The aim Of man was to obtain hap
piness, to place himself in a position
to enjoy the favOrs and blessings
that surrounded him. The great
majority of mankind had and were
making complete failure in their
efforts in not securing that for
which they strove, calling into ac-
ton all the powers and forces OF
their being. There must be some
cause fer that failure. To under
stand the cause it was necessary to
understand why man was placed on
earth, and the purpose fo1
which he was organized and
endowed with mental facul-
ties and physical appetites and
passions. Was this all by chance
or accident? 1t was unnecessary to
argue that such was the case. AL
things in nature have design and
purpose, displaying to every intelli.
gent mind that the Great Designer
was a Being of supreme intelli.
gence, by virtue of which He has
organized a world and placed it in
motion, under control Of laws that
we're not made by Him, but which
were cOevil with him. When the
world was created and put III mo-
ton, the sons of God shouted fol
JOY, because it was place where
they could come, and thereby affair
to glory that they could not other
wise reach, that the great plan OF
salvation could be worked out
That plan was not first established
in 1880 when the Church Of JeSu:
Christ of Latter-day Saints was.Or
gained, but when Adam was placed
on the earth. That relation coulC
only be obtained through the OBJ
serVance of certain laws and Ordi
nanceS established by God, and
which were the same now as they
had ever been, that plan being
through the priesthood having au
thority from God. The plan haC
been established by the highest in
telligence, and it was not for men tt
change it, or even suggest an
other. In ancient DAYS, When it was
asked: Men and brethren, what
shall we do to be saved, it was an
swered in accordance with the di
vine plan, repent and be bap
tiled for the remission of sins, the
reply being to all mankind
This was the gospel that the saints
were preaching to the world to-day
The elders were preaching to the
world the restoration Of the gospel
and commanding the people to re-
pent and be baptized for the remis
sion of their sins as the first step to
ward salVation..No one was required
to take the declaration or testimony
of anyone in this matter, because
the same power that attended the
gospel anciently attended it to-day
The same Holy Ghost was conferred
and it gave testimony to every in
dividual of the truth Of the gospel
There was no other church on the
face of the earth that had that Holy
Ghost. The spirit of inspiration
from God inspired others to the dis
covery of the truth, but the priest
heod only came from God, and wa:
conferred in these latter days upOr
Joseph Smith. The speaker knew
for himself that the gospel was
from God. He knew it by the gift
and power of the Holy Ghost. He
was proud of the gospel and of his
associations with the saints, and OF
his knowledge of the plan Of saliva.
ton. To a saint there is but one
law that governs him. He cannot
go contrary to that law. 1t was ne
cessary for him to understand the
law governing his body, and then to
obey it. If men were to be brethren
with the Savior, they must
obey what he has COM
manded them to do, whether
for governing their moral, physical
or mental instincts. Salvation
for this world was merely pro
gressive. After this world the faith
full would go on progressing. This
was what they were put on earth
for, to progress, and not to gather
wealth, which might be swept away
in an hour; nor was fame lasting.
Life was a grand schoolhouse,
where man was taught to curb the
will and apPetites, and develop and
improve in everything that tends to
benefit the mind and body. The
saints believe in intelligence, and
in the education of their sons and
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