The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-10-09


APpsTLE MILFORD WOODRUFF
said: | waht 10 preach IA short
strlnoh. [ have heard the presidency
81 verai tiines ask I he congr, CATION
t, kee still. hit whenever a
speaker is through, z o or:i 0 go foI
the doors. When | WAS boy ]
never thought of passing a man OF
woman in ths streets without
taking off my hat. | never
said yes or no to my
parents. do hope when man
stops talking that you will keep
your seats. The Lord is not pleased
with it. We have great variety
OF teachings, and | think sometimes
we come nearer being preached to
death than any other people. My
mind refers to the channel of COM
muhlcatiOn from God to man. We
have the Bible giving an account of
the dealings Of God with the Jews.
We have the Book of Mormon Civ
ing history of the ancient in6ab-
itants of this continent. We have
the Doctrine and Covenants, our tes-
lament. All these records are tine
words Of God to man. Then we
have the living oracles with us and
have had since Joseph smith Tt
celyed the miniStration. The Lord
has many ways to commun. cate
with us; we have dreams and
visions. Joseph aud Sidney Rigd,n
were commanded to write Will i'll
a vision. We can read of a man
who saw an earthquake and a whiri-
wind, but the Lord was not there
then he heard still voice, and The
Lord was there. | have had things
revealed to me in dreams. I SAW,
when WAS eleven years old, the
judgment day. There was a great
gulf across the plain, and everyone
who came carried his god, and when
they came to the gulf they all
dropped their god. l saw u man
who wore beaver hat, and dropped
a bag of silver. | afterwards SAW
this man living. and it was -four Il
odt that he had S10s 900 in silver
when lie died. After this PASSED
| was placed in temple called the
Kingdom of God, and had the priv
ilege of assisting my friends to il.
Som years afterwards this dream
was fulfilled L" the very tier
l name this 10 show that
things are sometimes communicated
10 lis in dreams. Then We h We Wis
ions. Paul WAS caught up in Il Wis
lOn'tO the third heaven. Ia iennes-
see l rec v~d "A letter from Joseph
Smith. telling me 10 let Brother Pat
ton stay there and get his endOw-
me.ls. III the even ng [ sat down
and willie wrapped in vision mes
enger came and showed ma the
scenes Of the last days. Is4w he
sun turned to darkness, the stars
fall from heaven and the moon turn
to blood. saw the second reSurrec-
ton, and the people coming forth in
diverse clothes. What did this mean
but that the Lord wanted TO give
me testimony of the truth OF The
resurrection. When we have a
dream, if we have the Spirit IF God
we cdn tell whether 1t is from the
Lord or not. In London | had d
dream in which | saw my wife, aid
she told me that my child WAS deal
When l got my letters my d. cam
was found to he true. The Lord
does communicate with us III
dreams, and we should pay atteI-
ton TO them, for they are sent fUI
our profit, and to teach US principle.
That was strong testimony to me
of the resurrection. We are placed
here to build up Zion. a great share
of the male members bear some por-
ton of the holy priesthood; we are
IA kingdom of prizes S. We are the
same priesthood on the other side
of the veil; when we die we Will
join our quorum, and will enter into
the work of the ministry. for there
are a thousand times more to preach
there than there are here. Brother
Roskelly, when bishop of Smithfeld,
was taken very sick, and Brother
Vaughan came to him and said,
Brother Roskelly, we have taken
counsel together and we want help!
three names have been given me,
and your name is one of the
number. They talked together
and Vaughan told him he would
leave him, and he recovered, A
few days after another man was
taken sick, one of the men who had
been named, he recovered aud told
Brother Roskellcy that Brother
Vaughan had been to him and
talked. 4 few days after the third
man was taken sick and died. | tell
this to show you that there is work
behind the veil This work is true.
Joseph Smith was a prophet of the
Lord, and was ordained and APP
pointed before he was born. and so
also have been thousands of my
brethren. We must realize that the
eyes of the heavenly hosts are over
us. Let US try to magnify our
calling, and when we get through
we Will be satisfied. This is the
work of God, and no power eau
stand against it, and the nations VIII
yet learn that it is Il fearful thing to
fight against God. Ibear my testi-
mony that this work is true; may
God bless us all.
PRESIDENT GEORGE Q. CANNON
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