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

n the some proportion of Il
is rank and file would also IA
S away. l look forward TO tn
e. day when no man who sha
h be called to the apostleship wi
it depart from the ways of truth, an
ID | expect TO see less and less of i
% both among the priesthood and tn
le members of the church. We mus
it Iimprove and we must progress
Il The men who will be chosen to oC
S. cupy these positions will be Gale,
p on account of their answering in
d tegrity. They will be men who vii
Y hold fast to their calling, come lif,
n or come death. The Lord had il
Il the beginning to take the materia
, he had to organize the church, ans
/. had he had greater choice. w,
D must increase in numbers, in faiUI
: and in intelligence, for the kingdom
Y will never again be thrown dOwI
2 or given to another people. We
: may see some of our youth some
4 times fall away, but by far the
J great majority of those who arr
| born in the church will adhere to il
= and hold fast to their integrity. The
/ faithfulneSs of our children will de
minish the chances of their aposta-
) tlzlng. But l can tell you, that the
children who are sent to be educated
9y the infdel and by those of other
denominations will be led away.
and that those children and their
parents will not be found among
those who abide in the faith.
Their minds will be darkened, and
in the day of God those children
will rise up and condemn their par
ents as being their destroyers.
Children are not free from their
parents until they have attained
their full development. l read with
establishment the remarks of a
stranger who lectured in this city
he showed the shame that should
accrue to those who send their
children to be educated by those
whose duty it is TO destroy the faith
or the children. And this man, a
stranger, without the priesthood, re-
proves the elders and seventies for
sending their children among their
enemies. They say themselves that
1t is better for our children to be-
come gamblers. prostitutes and
whore-mongerS than to abide in the
faith. And they say it is only our
polygamy they are fighting. 1t isl
not so. They do not care a straw
for polygamy. The ostensible reason
they give for wanting to destroy
polygamy is that it is licentious
that it is wicked. How weak this
is will appear, when from their own
showing we know that they them
selves are deeper sunken in the crime
of whoredom than were any other
generation who ever lived. | dol
not believe that there was more cor
ruption in the worst days of Rome
than can be found now in Chris |
tendon. The Romans NAV navel
been more open i'll their practices
than the people now are, but never |
did the blood of infancy cry to God
Tor vengeance as it does now. Inl
the civilized world there is more in
fanticide and feeticide among those
who claim TO be Christians than |
ever appeared before. Then when
our enemies cry out for polygamy to
be destroyed because it is hcentiOus
and wicked, it is damnable hypoc-l
risy. They want it DESTROYED be-
couse it is command of God |
There is no RIGHTEOUSNESS in it; and
1t is in consequence of a command
of God that we enter into it, and not
for the qualification of lust. They
make handle of it and try to make
this a reason why the Latter-day
Saints should be legislated against.
The truth of the matter IS that it is
our prieStly organization that they
are opposed to. Break the welded
chain between men and God, and
they wGuld care no more for our
than they for the licensed
prostitution of New York. Thew
want to destroy us, and to do thiSI
they are sending their minist rs,
school teachers and Sisters of Mercy |
TO lead away and destroy our chill
dren. Had we not ought to be as
as they are, and ought we
not to guard our children from
them 2 My children, with my
consent, shall never be placed
under their influence, for when
come before the bar of God, such
an act would sink me into the second
1eath, for l should be regarded as
The destroyer of my children.
Knowing, as L do, that this is the .
work of God, for me to send my
children to these teachers would be :
ior me to give my children to the {
levil. The Lord has commanded us
% bring up our children in the love i
If the truth, and instiI principles of I
righteousness into their hearts. Let I
is then do our duty. The most
ligoted man will admit that if we IL
AVE the truth, and the word of God, :
We would be worse than idiots to | !
iend our children to be led away. !
can tell you. in the name of the I
Lord, that if you do not refrain from /
your children among these /;
you will rue it, both here ,
md hereafter. Amen. If
PRESIDENT JOHN TAYLOR said Is
The principles that have been adj {
Tanced this morning demand our Il
TaOSt serious consideration. We, as {
colIr--day Saints, profess to havejC
to the !,af the world, and gathered (
OF tulhiilhg y Zion for the purpose Ii
living IN an n sIy of God. We are
| a controversy with % S 70 ." have
wherein he has decreed to g:>,tions
people, and wherein he has Us
manifest his law and gospel as Il
lexisted in other ages; and living III
this day, and having been gathered,
and received the holy priesthood, 1t
lbehoyes us as saints to study and
ponder well the path we take. 10
lcomprehend the positions we occupy,
lour relations to God, the church, our
families, and to the world that
we may act wisely and be in all We
}, lido under the guidance of the spirit
of the living God; that under this
guidance we may carry out the
, principles he has committed TO oul
! care. When men do this they vii
: mot apostatiZe, but when men under
1.-The name and cloak of the gospeI
5 Introduce corrupt and pernicious
: practices, they place themselves II
a position to be led captive by thu
2 devil at his own will. Then 1t be
e comes necessary for us to be prayer
/. lful and to seek for the spirit o
e lGod. So far from man being
+ lpuffed up by a position he ma,
e loccupy in the church, if a good man
h he will seek to so conduct himsel
S that he may be esteemed by angel
T and all upright men. Why do mel
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