The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-03-14
SUNDAY SERVICES.

beginning:
Ere long the vail will rend in twain.
The King descend with all his train
The earth shall shake with awful fright
And all creation feel His might.
Prayer by President David O.
Calder.
The choir sang the hymn com.
mencing:
While of the emblems we partake,
In Jesus name AMI for his sake,
Let Us remem Der and be sure
Our hearts and hands are clean a d
pure.
ELDER HENRY G. BOYLE adj
dressed the congregation. He said
he was not accustomed to speak TO
so many people, his lot and labOrs
having been abroad in the mission
airy service. There is no other peo-
pie on earth like the saints, who Oc-
cupy a peculiar position. For their
numbers and size they attract more
attention and create more excite
ment than any other people. Com
pared with the United States they
We're but handful, and with the
world, a mere drop i'll the bucket"
He believed the saints were a bet
ter people for having embraced the
gospel; if this were not SO it was
the fault Of the people themselves,
for this was the work of the Lord,
which all should know, as there
were constant evidences Of the fact.
Why should the world find fault
with them because they wanted to be
better men and women? because
they wanted TO serve God, obeying
his gospel? He had often thought
this was strange. The world felt
as he did when he first heard the
gospel-that there was something
in it greater than he had ever before
met with. AL hearing the gospel
taught by one having the authority,
feel this same influence, whatever
may be their feelings against it.
Something whispered to them that
the people up here in the mountains
were going to revolutionize the
world unless they were suppressed,
hence they were determined to
obliterate the work if possible.
There was this popularity about
the opposition-it GIBBS and flows,
reaching d certain point, when God
said no farther, and it receded.
There never was a wave of OppOsi-
ton so high as that of to-day; but
the saints were not alarmed. They
were doing what God had COM
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afford to be recreant to the trust |
reposed in them. They could !
not give up any part of |
their religion, and if it did
not suit the world it was the lat |
ter and God for it. The saints |
would like all to accept the glorious
truths of the gospel, that they
might be saved. They had labored |
to That end. The elder had spent |
the best years of his life, travelling
$4,000 miles, in trying to induce
people to believe the truth and re-
ceiye its benefits, and he begrudged
no hour that he had thus spent. The
world would continue its opposition
to the saints, for it was determined
that the work shou not progress.
The saints expected opposition, and
would meet it whenever it came.
They would try to keep Gods COM
mandmentS, whatever the elements
of opposition might cOnspire to do.
Perhaps it was necessary for the
saints to encounter the evil inhu-
ences in order to try tkem-to test
the young upon which the world
was labOring TO turn them from the
religion of their fathers. The elder
had implicit confidence in the young
that they would be true and loyal
to the principles of the gospel.
Fathers and mothers, however,
should not cease their efforts
to bring their children into the
straight and narrow path that
leads TO eternal life. They must
be diligent, for the adversaries
to truth mad not ceased their efforts.
The evil influences were at work
lying about the saints. 1t seemed
TO hum that any reasoning mind
could see that this is the work Of
God. because the devil, the father Of
lies, was so set against it. The
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been on the same side. The Lord
would make the mouth of man to
praise him. Ii the saints would do
right, they need have no fears.
They should forgive each other, be
united, remember their prayers,
and be true to God and his COM
mandmentS. God had control over
the human family and he could di-
rect all for the best.
PRESIDENT GEORGE TEAsDALE
next addressed the congregation.
He said the saints were d happy
people, and the most favored on the
earth. The gospel was intended to
make people better; To save the sim
ner from bis sins, and ii it had not
made the saints better it was their
own fau t. Christ said 'wUe unto
you when all men speak well Of
YOU" Now the ministers of the
gospel III the world were
spoken well of; but the Latter day
saints were regarded as wicked
people. The popular doctrine was
that man was justified by faith.
The saints believe that doctrine.
also. tut they le,ieve mOre-they
believe in actions in accordance
with their faith, in repentance from
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