The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-10-07

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susceptible Of receiving and retain
ing good instruction. Nearly every
child will be baptized at years
if it is properly instructed. They
should be placed in the sabbath
shoots, mutual Improvement asso-
Citations; they should be nourished
and taught the truth as fast as they
can receive it. Let the saints be
faithful to their covenants, to
the obligations of the gospel. This
is not a system made by man but is
OF divine origin and our leaders
have done much to do good to man
kind generally and have not sought
to injure them. Do not turn away
from the kingdom OF God because
it is threatened with destruction,
for the KINGDOM is not mans and
cannot be destroyed, but will roll till
it becomes a mountain and fills the
whole earth. I be speaker concluded
by blessing the congregation.
COUNSELLOR d. II. WELLS was
the next speaker. He was pleased
to be privileged to bear his testi-
mony to the truth. The present is
IN eventual day, but God has not
forgotten his people, but is deter
mined to establish his work upon
the earth through the instrument
tally Of his children, if they will
only be obedient to his laws Our
spirits have been detained in the
spirit world until this age, to come
upon the earth to perform this
work. Joseph Smith, the prophet,
knew that these spirits had come
and would come upon the earth to
do this work. In this meridian Of
time the Savior was crucitied, the
gospel rejected and the apostles put
to death; but God has a race on the
earth now, some Of whom will lear
off his kingdom. A mans faith
fulness will be weighed by his ac-
lions Many have been convinced
of the divinity Of this work by the
weight CT testimony, but in conse-
quence of the appropriately of this
work they have not had courage
enough to join their fate with that
Of the SAINTS. Our religion is
not a matter of enthusiasm
for a Gay or for a week,
worked up IL some camp meeting,
but it is q substantial, everlasting
reality, and he that endureth to the
end the same shall be saved The
saints expect to be tried ana tested.
Some had remarked that they
wished they had been in the perse-
cUtiOn OF lions camp, and in Hin
ois, in Missouri and Kirkland, but
they, If they WILLY godiy in Christ
Jesus, W II find all the persecution
they desire and require to purify
them, as they must be purified. It
requires some faith to stand up in
the face of this untOward genera
ton, in defense Of this great but eX-
tremely unpopular cause. When
Will the Lord give the kingdom and
the greatness thereof into the hands
of the saints of the most high? Just
! as soon as they know how to receive
and retain it, and not hand it over
to the adversary as soon as they are
entrusted with it. If we DO not
hold ourselves in readiness to do the
will of God, he will raise up from
our midst a generation who vii.
bear off the work and take ouI
places. The kingdom has greatly
progressed from the time We were
located in Illinois. If any one had,
at that time, predicted that the
saints would so SooI attain to their
Dresent state of faith and unity
no doubt he would have
been disbelieved. God is
working a reformation in the earth,
which is certainly necessary, as they
do not know any more about him.
How much Scripture have the
learned divines produced since the
apostles fell asleep? None; for they
have not the power TO do it. The
scriptures were written by men who
had communion with the heavens.
Joseph the prophet went to the Lord
in humility and asked him which OF
all the, religious sects was right
But the Lord told him they We're al
wrong, and instructed him to con.
meet himself with none of them
Satan is anxious 20 tread this work
underfoOt, but Notwithstanding bis
lies, uttered by tue clergy OF Baby.
Ion and many of the great men Of
the earth, the work is onward, ana
the more the mustard tree is kicked
the more will the seed be spread into
| the various parts of the earth. We
have an example given in the Book
of Mormon where the Lord could
not withhold himself from the
brother of Jared on account Of the
remarkable faith of this crest man,
When in times past the Lord has
made men rich they have in many
instances kicked out of the traces
and went their own way. The
Savior's instruction to the young
man of great possessions was
to sell all that thou hast
and follow me-" Instead of some
fmen using their riches for the adj
Yancement of the cause of the Lord
they use them for almost any other
purpose aud often never for the pur-
| pose for which they were given
"Seek first the kingdom af God and
his righteousness and all other
things shall be added" was the re-
corded promise. If men will seek
to build up Gods kingdom they
themselves will be built up by the
kingdom. But we come hereifol
the purpose OF passing the ordsals
| incident to this life. Ii IS no hap
hazard thing, for it was understood
before we left the spirit world