The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-07-26
SUNDAY SERVICES.

At the Tabernacle on Sunday
afternoon the choir sang the hymn
on page 167:
o Lord, our Father, let Thy grace,
| Shed It's glad beams on Jacobs race,
Restore that leng-lost, scattered band,
And call them 10 their native land.
Prayer by Elder c. w. Stayner.
The choir sang the hymn on page
4O1:
How great the wisdom and the love,
That filed the courts on high,
And sent the Savior from above
To suffer, bleed and die.
ELDER JAMES II. HART, church
emigration agent, addressed the
congregation. He saw around him
veterans OF Zion, who for many
years had proclaimed to this goddess
generation the great things that God
mad performed upon the earth. We
are living at a mOmentous period
OF the worlds history when God
had set his hand 10 redeem his peo-
pie, and commenced to gather them,
setting up a kingdom that shall
never come to an end. The Bible
informed us of a time when God
should set his hand a second time to
gather his people, and that it would
be such a mighty affair that former
efforts should hardly be brought TO
mind. 1t was TO be time when
the Lord would establish Zion, after
which he would appear in his glory.
This afternoon We contemplate the
sufferingS of Christ, who died to re-
deem the sons and daughters of
man. When he came the
world was not prepared to
receive him. He was prosecuted
unto death by the religious people.
They said cruelty him, he is not fit
to live. He performs miracles by
the power of Beelzebub. How blind
that they should not know the son
of God who was the express image
of his father who sent him to redeem
all the children of earth Persons
now say, if they had lived in Jesus
time they would not have prosecuted
him and put him to death. a little
over fifty years ago, this same Jesus
restored his ancient gospel and
instructed the Prophet Joseph to
organize his Church and kingdom
upon the earth for the set time had
come. The Prophet Daniel, while
in prison in Babylon, interpreted
certain dream given to the king,
wherein the Lord showed that the
Coo. of heaven would set up his
kingdom which would be given to
the saints, who should possess it
forever. If this be the kingdom of
God, as the Saints claim it to be, it
would be as little stone cut out of
the mountain without hands, which |
would roll forth, destroying the
image and filling the whole earth.
1t would be in accordance with the |
kingdom of Christ in its organiza-
ton. In Christ's time a certain
person named Saul felt it his duty
to prosecute the followers of the |
Saviour, who had assembled to |
heaven. He was on his way to ]
Damascus to arrest Christians and
throw them into prison; but en-
route he saw a light |
from heaven and heard a
voice crying: saul, why per-
persecutest thou me?" He an
swered, "Who art thou?" and the
reply was Il am Jesus, whom thou
persecutest." Saul was struck blind.
Though Saul had seen the light, and
heard the voice, he was not con-
verted. He was told to go to a GER
tain place, where it should be told
him whereby he might be saved.
After Saul had received the ilStruc-
ton, no doubt he went forth and
was baptized, as he had been COM
manded. Soon after he was in
prison, and there was determina-
ton to put him TO death with those
Whe accompanied. 1t had been a
hard thing to be SAINT in any age.
1t required moral courage to face a
frOWning world that had always |
the saints. Saul was
thrust into prison because he was d
saint of God, and there are those to-
lay who are being put into prison
for the same cause. The same
causes produce the same effects in
every age. Saul, with chains upon
MIN, sang praise to God. An elder
could afford TO sing praises to the
Lord, for his enemies could not de-
troy eternal life. The chains fell
rom the limbs Of Saul and his COM
)anions; and the doors were thrown
pen. The jailor was alarmed and
Vas going to kill himself; but Saul
lissuaded him, and preached TO
i'm the gospel and he was
,aptiZed and all his household. It'll
lad been declared that the work in
which the saints are engaged should
De established in these times, and
he heavens were pledged to protect
t. The elders need not think it
TRANCE if they are prosecuted, for
his had been their lot in every age.
,he spirit Of the world was antag-
nistic to the kingdom of God. The
World is not ready to receive the
,ingdOm of God, though the pre-
ended ministers of the gospel are
ally praying for the coming of that
Jesus had promised that :
ertain signs should follow believers
n his gospel. Now, those signs did h
lot follow belief in Methodism, II
catholicism, or any Of the isms of =.
he Christian world. 1t was said !,
hat those gifts had been done AWAY, b
whereas the pretended Christians z
ad themselves turned heathens. 4
low, the angels Of God had been