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

ming:
Ere long the vail viii rend in twain,
The King descend with all his train;
The earth shall shake with awful fright
And all creation fill his might.
Prayer by Elder A. H. Raleigh
The choir sang the hymn beginning
Be diedI the great Redeemer died.
And Iirael's daughters wept around;
A solemn darkness yelled the sky;
And sudden tumbing shook the
grouad.
ELDER c. w. PENRosE addressed
the congregation, occupying the en-
tire afternoon. He began by refer.
ring to the administration of the sac
fament, which he said was partaken
of by the saints in remembi ance
of the Lord Jesus, and in the eXpec-
tation that the Savior would come
again, as king of Israel; where all
would be subject to him. In par
taking of the emblems their minds
were carried backward and also for
ward. The bread was a token of the
broken body of Christ, and the water
was the token of the blood.
the sacrament being witness that
they had taken on them the name of
Jesus Christ; that they will serve
him IN all things, preferring him to
all other things, and believing that
if they do this, all else would be
added. The administration of the
sacrament was a solemn ordinance,
and on those occasions the saints
should call in their scattered
thoughts, concentrating them on
sacred things, when they
would be better prepared to battle
with the things of the world. God
had been merciful in affording so
many privileges of instruction.
There was no occasion for any one
to go aStray for want of instruction.
There were meetings on Sundays
and Sunday evenings, the Sabbath
school for the children, and meet
ings during the week, when they
could be taught in the things of God.
Then they had the privilege of the
gift of the Holy Ghost, enabling
them to discover the things of God,
as the things of the earth are made
plain to the eye by the sight of the
sun. The light or spirit of God was
for all, not being confined to any
sect or individual. 1t was the light
and life of the world, the spirit of
told about in the Book
of Job. If we have any intelligence
it came from God. If people would
be guided by the light of God it
would lead them up to the fountain
of light, and enable them to COM
mune with God, and show them
how to walk in the straight and
narrow path. 1t was because the
people of the world did not live
in that light that they were
unable to walk in the path
Of God. They loved darkness
rather than light, and having free
agency, they could choose between
good and evil. The Lord had made
this so that he might judge all ac-
cOrding to their conduct upon the
earth. Ali were responsible to God
for their department., and he would
Judge them accordingly. He had
sent us here for an experience and
but the time would come
when all would have to go before
him for judgment. AT different
times God had sent inspired men to
instruct his children and lead them |
back into his presence. But the |
people of the world generally had |
rejected those holy men. Jesus |
said which of the prophets have not |
your fathers slain? Even Jesus |
was rejected, as had been the pro-
lhets in all ages of the world. They |
rave been stoned, prosecuted and |
1ut to death. Some say if they had |
wed aneiently they would have re-
,eived the prophets and hailed
hem as deliYerers from dark |
less. How would they have |
Known that even Jesus was
he son of God? There was only |
me way, namely: by revelation,
md if one did not believe in revela-
ion, how could he have known the
savior? No man could find out |
hat Jesus was the Christ, except by
he spirit of the Holy Ghost. One I
night believe it, but he could not |
NOW it, nor could any knowledge |
If the things of God come except by |
he spirit of the Holy Ghost. The |
rift of the. Holy Ghost was the |
greatest boon that could be con-
ierred upon man, for without 1t he |
could not obtain a knowledge of |
God. The only Way in which the |
lift could be obtained was as God
lad pointed out in the Scriptures.
First, man must. believe in God. |
Faith must be quickened in his |
leart. He must believe in Jesus |
Christ as the son of God, the re-
leemer of the world. The next
was repentance. He did
not mean weeping and mourning
and throwing oneself into the anx-
.ous seat, but a fixed determination
to cast aside evil from his life. The
next principle was baptiSm-burial
in the water, and being raised there
from by one having the authority
from God to administer in that or
finance. Baptism did not wash away
the sin, but the ordinance must be
Obeyed, as it had been by Christ
himself. The man who baptized
Christ had authority to baptize, and
if he had not, the ceremony would
have been void, just as it
would be to-day if one should
baptize without the authority
from God. Christ received his
priesthood from his father, and he
conferred it upon his apostles, tell
ing them to go forth and preach the
gospel to all the world, and prOmis-
ing that those who believed and
were baptized should be saved, and
those who rejected it would be
damned. The Holy Ghost was con-
ferred through another form,
the laying on of hands by
one having the authority to perform
the ceremony. In ancient times,
when one received this spirit, he
had an inward witness or conviction
that he was accepted of God, and
the same was the case to-day. The
same gifts would follow to-day as
anciently, unless God and the Holy
Ghost had changed. 1t was denied
by the world there were revelations
and communication with God now,
and it was said the gifts were not
conferred to-day, hut if God
and his laws were unchange-
able, why should not these
things be now as ancientlyp
In this age young man came forth
and testified that he had been duly
commissioned to preach the gospel
unon the earth. The CONSEQUENCE