The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-04-05


I lpOwer and he would redeem eve
t one. but he wanted 10 do away vii
4 the free agency of man, the same
] some in this great republic wou
I like to take away ours, which CT
!, helping us we will reta n. This I
g lsulted IN one-third of the ange
{ being cast out. Man came to II
. earth and when man came, Sata
came. He came to try to pervel
the law God gave toman. Cain an
Abel were representative men. Or
placed himself under the infuenC
: of God, the uther that of the devi
/ and was instructed 10y him to intrC
duce murder upon the earth, wheI
1t has remained ever since. We sc
this spirit abroad upon the eartl
, and it would like to destroy us, an
nothing but our fidelity to our priT
lclples and To each other will save u
IL we want eternal life it is nece:
sary TO remain faithful, and to II
main one with the presidency an
JapostleS. Let us be for truth an
4 for right 7OusneSS,- and not throw
Jour children into the hands of tn,
destroyer Then the kingdom vii
increase and grow. and loud an
thems be proclaimed unto the Lam
forever.
Choir sang the anthem, Make
Joyful Noise Unto the Lord"
Benediction by Apostle Erastu:
Snow.
Adjourned to o'clock pm.
ppm.
The meeting was called to orde
by President John Taylor. ChOi
sang the hymn on the 18th page:
Praise to God, immortal praise,
For the love that crowns our days;
Bounieous source OF every 10y,
Let thy praise our tongues employ.
Prayer was offered by Presiden
a. NJ. Cannon.
The choir sang the hymn on page
q:
The Lord my pasture shall prepsre,
And feed me with . shepherds care;
His presence shall my wants supply,
And guard nae with . waichful eye;
Ny MONDAY walks he shall attsnd,
And all my midnight hours defend.
PRESIDENT GEO. @. CANNON then
read the statistical report of the
various stakes, for the half year
ending March Is, 1881.
APOSTLE ERASTUS SNOW then
arose and said one of the ancient
apostles, who was the expounder of
the religion of the Savior, q refer to
the eXpoundOr of the Christian
religiom that the gospel was a
perfect law of liberty. l believe it.
If l make a text at all. that is it.
The gospel, as interpreted by the
Savior and APOSTLES, is a perfect
law of liberty. Everything ac-
cording to the spirit of the gospel as
by the Savior tended to
All the revelations God
ever gave to man tended to liberty.
The government which our father
has exercised over his children, on
the earth and in the heavens, has
not tended to restrain them from
but rather to enlarge, eX-
tend, and preserve and maintain it.
These doctrines have attempted To
draw a line between liberty and
RIGHTEOUSNESS between liberty and
Oppression and slavery
are the result of sin, and violations
Of the principles OF the. everlasting
gospel, either by the ruled,
by the rulers; or both-and
generally by both. True freedom of
mind and body and the enjoyment
Of human liberty, rest upon human
and virtue, and the Obser
vance of those principles of truth
upon which all liberty Is founded.
There are some people who think
they are always in bondage unless
hey are all the time trying to get
INTO trouble; some seem never to
De happy unless perfectly miserable.
The nihiliSts of Russia and the
socialists of France, sympathized
with by the liberals of Utah. are try
ng TO destroy all government. The
liberals here, like socialists, would
overthrow government, destroy the
Kings, and when they had destroyed
very Vestagc of order and govern
nenJ, would believe they had
cached the acme of liberty. The
world is drifting this way to-day,
onr own beloved govern
nent. III we take Il retrospective
rev of the government of God. we
ind his people ever have been the
reest of all people on the earth. The
tudents of the Bible and the Book
# Mormon know this. Samuel, the
eer, fOretOld the result that would
ONE to his people i'll their clam or
or a king, that il would leld the IN
nto slavery. They would not listen
o what he said, yet they insisted
hat Samuel should name the king,
nd the Lord told Samuel that they
.ad rejected him and not Samuel, !
mi told Samuel to do as they
Wished. You who read the Bible |
now how God showed them his dis
'leasure at their action. We find |
n the Book of Mormon that as long
S the people hearkened unto the
-oice of The prophets, they were the /
reest, and when they began to de-
pise the words of these men, they |
Irifted into RIGHTEOUSNESS and |
and anarchy is the absence
f government; it the antipOdes |
4 order. Paul says be subject
o the powers that be, for there |
s no government that is not of God. |
This is a startling proposition; but
my government is far better than |
lone at all. 1t may not be the best
possible from of government for
human happiness, but any form of
rTernment that tends TO refrain |
and n evil, is better than none.
S err clamoring for liberty
those who cla9ht, tends to the de
lGaye their ideasryernment; and
tongues. are alwaysfor it, who
trample human freedom Gn their
feet. The oppression of a XII 10
preferable TO the oppression or
lmob, where every mans Will Is III
own law. These persons do no
| strive for the liberty of all, but t
liniure all others. The power OF 90
lis to check the headlong rush of tn
maniac. who wishes to destroy a
Governments, and build up hlmsel
Ion the ruins of others. There
lnothing that so much tends to n
!. strain the unlawful and unhol
passions of men as the doctrine
! taught by the Savior. The powe
: of that man. departs who attemI
Z TO exercise unlawful dominic
over his follow man. The teachln
.tof the Savior to settle difficultl'
{ among brethren in the church of tt
J L,atteT-day Saints, of bringing tho:
/ at odds together of speaking free
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