The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-04-05
Lax DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY MORNING. APRIL s.

It stroy the truth. Human imagini
s ton had been put to the rack TO II
,. vent stories TO iEjure Smith and hl
It followers, but the work did not dl:
2, appear. The elders went forth, II
Y gardless of the calumnieS, preacl
|. ing the word of God in the splrl
f and power of the Lord. Men locke
e upon it as almost disgrace {
g speak to a Mormon elder, yet til
. latter, without purse or scrip, wen
2 from place to place, bearing al
= kinds of prosecutions and hardsnips
{ traversed the land, lifting VI
| their voices, declaring that Coz
had restored the gospel in its purit,
and as 1t had originally beer
preached. They crossed the oceal
to the old world, and they pro
claimed the same truths that they
had uttered on this continent
Thus the gospel went from land Il
land, until every continent and al
most every land had been visited by
the elders. While this was going
on the work at home was not ar
rested. Persecution was put upon
the saints. That persecution then
was not because the saints INDUCED
IN wicked practices. They were ac-
cused of amounting and laying on OF
hands for the healing of the sick
and of practicing other ordinances
of the gospel also, of being Yankees
and abolitlonists. They were driven
before mobs and violently perse-
cuted, but they had an abiding faith,
based in revelation, that the day
would come when they would be-
come great people, their loyalty be
recognized, and their virtues ac-
knOwledged. Joseph Smith had
predicted this, and the saints be-
lieved it implicitly. The driVings,
and prosecutions and burnings could
not shake their faith. The reYela-
tions had foretold all about the
work, and what should occur, as
clearly as could the historian de-
scribe what happened. All this
went to establish that Joseph Smith
was true prophet of God, derided
and despised though he had been.
Many things remained unfulfilled,
but they will all come in the right
time. God had spoken, and he
would not revoke his word. This
was the great work OF the latter
days, that had been foretold by the |
inspired prophets of old, as recorded
in the. Bible, and being that work |
which had been commanded and |
was being prosecuted through God, |
it would progress as had been pre-
dicted. 1t would be thought that SO
small a people as the saints have
been might have escaped notice, but /
it was not to be so. The
saints understand why they
were given such Importance
throughout the world. The same
influence that worked against the
Savior and the inspired and holy
ones Of old, was at work now TO
overthrow righteousness. The same
evil spirit was abroad in the earth,
and il was assaulting little people
who had come out into the wilder
ness to escape persecution; yet those
people were honest, loyal to the Ma
ton, loving the country and the
government, and the friend to lib
erty, TO purity and TO uprightness.
witnessed all that the saints
lad accomplished, their thriftiness,
honesty, enterprise, liber-
Atty, surely the 50,eO0,OOO people
night let $4,000 live in peace, with
)ut bounding and prosecuting them.
Bat this was not to be. The war
fare must go on. 1t was God on one
side and the Adversary on the
other. There could be no peace.
satan hal contrived to maintain his
io9thold upon the earth for a long
line, and he thought his claim
should be perpetual. He was strug-
Cling to hold his place; yet the
column OF truth and righteousness
was pushing forward, gathering into
The fold the honest from every ma
ion As to the loyalty of the saints,
Elder Cannon declared that the
line would come when the saints
would have to go to the rescue of
md maintain free government on
his continent, and this would occur
within the lives of some of those in
he congregation. They would givei
rec government, freedom of reli- l
,ioUS thought and action to all-the l
Pagan, the Hebrew, the Indian, the {
the heterOdOX and the in !
idel. They claimed those rights for
themselves. and would strive for
hem, and also to confer them upon e
'thers. The Vaccinations and the I
chemes of the enemies to the saints I
hould not cause the latter mo-
nent's sleep, and would not if they G
we're faithful and honest. II
The choir sang the anthem, "How q
Upon the Mountains" I
The conference was adjourned to 0
ionday morning at 10 o'clock. I
BenedictiOn was pronounced by U
apostle Brigham Young. .