The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-10-05
SUNDAY SERVICES.

| u 00Q! our 0elp IN ages p6sLs
Our hope for years TO come,
Our shelter from the stormy blast,
And our eternal home.
Prayer by Elder George Holiday
The choir sang:
How dark and gloomy was the night,
When Satan did his powers array, etc.
APOSTLE JOHN HENRY SMITH adj
dressed the congregation. He said
the object of the saints gathering
from time to time was in order that
their memories might be refreshed
in regard to the gospel, to see
wherein they had erred, or lacked
in the accomplishment Of the mis-
sion assigned to them; and seeing,
to start forward with renewed pur-
pose to follow more closely the mind
and will of the Father. There were
none who were not beset by OBJ
stacles and liable to mistakes; but
in listening to the remarks of the
elders they were led to reflect upon
their past lives, and see where they
might improve. All wish there
were many things that had
not occurred, and there was
occasion for Improvement in
the minds and lives of all.
The world did not understand the
Saints who were trying to live in
accordance with the laws of God; it
did not understand that the Saints
religion was religion of honor,
honesty and virtue; it looked upon
the gathering of the Saints as for
objects other than honesty. virtue
and uprightness. Faith in the
goodness of God had led the Saints
here, and a belief that He is as just
to His people of this age, as to those
who heard the gospel in the day of
Christ. The Saints had come here
for the purpose Of Overcoming, as
far as possible, everything that was
in the way of free approach to the
divine presence. It was for this
that they were preaching the
gospel to the world, and try
ing to bring men to a purity
Of lives before the Lord. This
was their mission-a duty imposed |
upon them by the Lord. 1t was
their mission 10 preach faith in the |
Lord, to preach honesty, chastity, |
purity, uprightness, and all good |
and not to teach evil or lead people |
astray. They believe in a practical,
5angible gospel-a gospel Of faith
md works; that every principle
hey receive from heaven should be
put into practice; that men and
yemen must be honest. faithful and
doing good to their fell
ow creatures. and helping all to be
better. If they fail in any of those
Iuties they will lose the rewards
hat have been promised unto them.
t was necessary that as fathers and
aothers they should discharge in
the duties imposed upon
hem, that their sons and daughters
e worthy of them, and that the ex-
nipple of their daily lives should be
worthy to be followed.
ELDER T. B. LEWIS was the next
peaker. He said the gospel was the
roblum of life. In his observation
nd experience it was with nations
nd communities as with indivi-
ualS. If it were possible for an in-
ividual to sicken or become dis
2sed, for assesses to form in the
hysical body Of man, so were
II these things possible with ma
ions and society. Sickness and
iseaSe exist in the earth; Sill, pol
ltion, corruption exist throughout
he world; diseases are forming on
he body polite Of the earth. 1t was
he great aim of the gospel to
leahse and purify. The gospel was
he great healer. Remedies insti-
uted by man had been applied;
hey were in measure palliative,
ut at no time had the disease been |
tayed and the earth cleansed. The I
pirit of murder existed to- day to a (
reater extent than it did at the
me OF the first murder. Hence. {
Nth all the remedies. this great alb
cess had not been removed, but was
till destroying and Tavaging. So it
Tas with other evils mentioned in
be catalogue Of sin and crime. The
after Day Saints claim that unto
hem q great remedy for cleansing
he world Of sin had been given. The
emedy was not the concoction of q,
len, but came from the Great Phys
;ian, who created and organized {
IAN, and knows his propensities and
as well as the disease that
fiicts his children. The saints
Tere trying the remedy, and who
AIRED say it was proving a failure?
he remedy enters the system at
De seat Of the disease and tears il
rom the body, putting in its place
bsolute purity. Each must apply
ne remedy for himself, and see that :
e, in his daily life, was living in
ccordance with the rules and prin-
piles laid down for his guidance bv
re Lord. The remedy must ever
g applied individually. It was
nfair to ignore the professions of
le saints until they have had fair
nance Of propagating and practic-
lg the principles revealed by God
II their guidance, and proven
neither they were proper or faulty.
!, after a fair trial, those princi-
les shall be proven fraudulent.
len the world may say that Joseph
NTH was false prophet, and his 7
were error. TODAY not q :.