The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-12-06
SUNDAY SERVICES.

az the services in the Assembly
Hall On Sunday afternoon, the
opening hymn was the one on page
26O:
How 4rm foundation, ye saints Of the
Is laid ao for your faith in his excellent
What more can he say than to YOU he
hath said
You who unto Jesus Cor refuge have fed?
Prayer by Elder Claudius V. Spen-
Ger. The choir sang the hymn on
page 149:
Omy father, thou that dWellest
In the high and glorious p!acei
When shall I regain thy presence,
And again behold thy face?
La thy holy hsbitation,
Did my spirit once reside?
In my first, primeval childhood,
Was l nurtured near thy eide?
ELDER ALEXANDER BURT adj
dressed the congregation, giving
brief report Of his recent missionary
labors, in his native land, Scotland.
He had greatly enjoyed his labors.
During the six months that he was
in Edinburg, he felt deeply his weak
ness; but he put his trust in God,
who sustained him and enabled him
to perform his labors. Afterwards
he went to Glasgow where he found
the people more liberal than they
were in the east of Scotland. His
ministry had given him remark
ably strong testimony Of the truth
of the gospel. He had encountered
people of may sects, all claiming
to be in search of the soul. They all
said that-all that was necessary was
to believe in Jesus Christ, but he
believed both in faith in the Lord
Jesus and in works, for one without
the ether was insufficient. The
saints had a promise that no other
people ever had, namely: that the
kingdom of God had been set up on
earth, never more to be everthrOwn.
ELDER A. BUCHANAN was the
next speaker. Three years ago he
left on mission to Europe. His
first labors were in Liverpool, and
afterwards in Edinburgh, where he
found the people hard-hearted and
unwilling to accept any religion
which sought to regulate their
everyday life. He then labored in
some of the shires of Scotland and
was welcomed by some of the peo-
pie, who though they were poor
were kind. Though he had encOun-
tered some unpleasant circum-
Stances, he had greatly enjoyed him
self while on his mission, and had
the Spirit of the Lord with him.
The young Elder has nothing to fear
provided he will trust in God, for
Notwithstanding the learning and
theology of this day, man could not
refute the doctrines of Christ as
taught by the saints. The world
was destitute of the holy priesthood.
1t was without authority to operate
in the things of God. The Lord would
acknowledge no one whom he had
not authorized to act for him. No
min had the right to preach the
gospel unless he was called of God
through revelation from the LORD.
The world denied that there was
modern revelation, hence it was.
without authority to administer III
the ordinances of God. The saints
say that all have gone aStray, but
that God had restored the gospel,
which gospel the elders preached,
and it produced the same effects to-
day as it did eighteen hundred years
ago
ELDER JAMES II. HART was the
next speaker. Since he had last
spoken to the people on this Temple
block, some of the best men in the
Church had gone the way OF all
heSh-men who had fought the good
fight, and gone to Iest-men who
were henOred on earth and in
heaven. He felt pleased that lie
could again meet with the Latter
day Saints. He rejoiced in the
great latter-day work IN which the
saints were engaged. 1t Lad been
their privilege to receive the mes
sage that had been given from God.
and to have portion of that Spirit
which searches all things, revealing
things past and things TO come.
During the last six months Elder
Hart had been the church emigration
agent in New York, and had en-
deayOred to perform his labor faith
fully. He had never during that
time missed an opportunity to speak
Of the things OF God. He had
found in the world profound
Ignorance as to the Lord and
his purposes. He was not
surprised, for how could one learn OF
those things except from one fully
commissioned to teach? 1t was
written that in the latter days God
would send his gospel to be preached
to every kindred md tongue. The
kingdom of God-had been set up in
this age, and it would grow until it
filled the whole earth. But no man
could understand the gospel except
by the spirit of God. The weapons
used against the saints in the world
were vituperation, scandal and lies.
but God would not let them prevail.
He had chosen the right kind of
women and men to accomplish his
wOrk-men and women who would
follow the Lord and execute his
purposes, 70 matter what the oppo-
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