The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-04-19
SUNDAY SERVICES.

The opening hymn at the service
in the Tabernacle on Sunday after
noon was the one beginning:
Sweet ia the work, my God, my King,
To praise thy name, give thanks. ant
. sing,
; To show thy love by morning light
And talk of all thy truths st night
Prayer by Elder George B. Wal
lace.
The choir sang the hymn begin
ming:
Spirit of faith come down
Reveal the things of God,
And make to US the Godhesd known,
And witness with the blood.
ELDER HENRY w. NAIsBITT adj
dressed the congregation. He said
the services of the congregations OF
the saints were delight because OF
his experience, and the feelings
which they had aroused within him,
and the strengthening spiritual food
which they gave. The droppir gS
from the sanctuary fitted the people
for life, enabling them to stand.
The experiences of mankind were
vast and varied. Every one pos
sessee his own history. TO him it
possessed intense interest, prophecy
ing of the future, giving him ability
to cope with the present by retiec-
ton on the past. The congregations
of the saints varied from all other
congregations in the matters of eX-
perience and history of the people.
He had often felt interest in listen
ing TO the personal experience of
those who make up the people of the
church. However unwilling a man
may be to parade his experience,
there were times when the recital
could take place without placing the
person under the charge of egotism.
In such recitals were found the
reasons for the hope that was in
them. The speakers first impress
sions of religion belonged to the
Sabbath school era of his life.
When he was between four and five
years old, he was a pupil in a Yves
leyan Sabbath school in England.
lie was taught to believe and did
believe that the Old and New TeSta-
mentS were of divine origin, giving
an account, among other things. of
the introduction of the gospel o.
Jesus Christ. Elder Naisbitt here
gave an account of his chiIdhood's
Impressions and teachings in relig-
ious matters. He was of very
religious temperament, and at the
age of Is went out as an eXhOrter.
Shortly afterwards he was appren-
ticed, and his master being mem
Der of the Established Church, he had
to attend that church. He became
an earnest religious student, and
noticed the differences between the
Wesleyan and Episcopal churches.
His next employer was Baptist,
who showed him that the other TWO
were not i'll accordance
with the church established by
Christ. The Baptist faith seemed
to harmonic with his sentiments
and feelings, and it was suggested
that he be trained for the ministry;
but a division among the church
members us to beliefs prevented
him from going into the ministry.
Next, he became somewhat affected
by Swedenborgianism, but through
to accept the form of in
FAINT baptism he did not unite with
the new church. Next he was in
terested in studying the Roman
Catholic faith, and was struck by
the claim to authority from Christ |
which the church was able to pre-
sent. Unitarianism next took strong
hold upon his mind, and soon after
wards he found himself associated
with the infidels. While enjoying
himself as a skeptic, he attended
some lectures by OrsOn Pratt, on the |
of the Church of Jesus |
Christ of Latter-day Saints. He
that Pratt was thorough |
bigot. but lie discovered that the
seemed friendly and
in their associations. The !
was good, and he continued
his attendance at the hall, and it |
struck him that the prin-
ciples taught were the same as the |
Bible contained. He investigated
the gospel but did not want to believe |
it, one reason being his objection to |
leaving England and gathering with |
the saints. He obtained all the |
books against MormOnism that he |
could find, and attended anti-Mor-
mon lectures; but despite all he had
to Weld and 90 down into the waters
of baptism. After a year or two in
England, he came to Utah, then in
the early days of its settlement, en-
countering many hardships, ETC., but
never from the first had he faltered
in his belief in the divinity of
the gospel. He had travelled and
preached much, but the more he had
seen the more he had learned, the
frlner was his belief in the gospel,
and his conviction that the Chris
tian world had apOStatised from the
ancient order of the gospel. He
knew that God was with the saints,
leading and directing them. There
were evidences and testimonies of
this: as well as Of the fact that God
this church for accom-
plishing his purposes on the earth.
After singing by the choir, Elder
John. Nicholson pronounced the
benediction.