The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-04-13

they will find court some day that
will convict them of perjury, even
if they do never find it this side of
the grave. Webster, Clay and the
ether bright lights of our nation
bOasted Of the freedom of this great
and glorious country. but they
would have hid their heads if they
had lived in this day when the
guarantee that no law should be
made touching religion was so
boldly and defantly overridden by
our legislators, and the people re-
strained oftheir rights and their priv
ileges. God has allowed kings TO be
raised up among his children at
various times and even to subveFt
the power which existed among the
people, but the Lord also raised up
prophets to go with those kings and
instruct them. In addition TO the
legal side Of the courts l will say
there is an equity side, which the
Latter-day Saints cannot avoid
noticing. 1t is given in the cOnsti-
tuition, that the state shall make
no law impairing the Obliga-
ton of contracts. Now the marriage
state is contract, a civil
contract and "a sacred contract, and
with US extends into eternity, by an
eternal covenant. 1t is laid down
by the ablest juriStS of our country
that the relation of husband and
wife should be maintained as the
basis of the preservation of society
and should be hedged around by the
courts more than any vested rights
i'll chattelS; and the world will
know some day that there is court
that will WELD its power to protect
us in these rights and the persons
attempting to defraud us will under
stand the force of an everything in
junction issued against them. There
Is one thing the government has
done that is an excellent thing
that our children born before 1888,
are and shall be legitimatized; but
there is a peculiar feature con-
nected with this matter, that is,
while Legislators have said our
children are and will be legitimate
children, the mothers of these
children are not our legal wives! 1t
is peculiar legislation. but itmay be
a precursor to other subsequent
legislation for our good. 1t is good
enough as far as it goes. We need
not be weakened or trembling at
any prospective trouble. The men
and women who lived here in 184S
and suffered what was suffered then
cannot be made afraid by any of
mans efforts against them or
against this church. Many of the
people in those days walked very
near the valley of death, and fear
and trembling has entirely left
them. We can stand upon our re-
cord, and send our missionaries to
the nations of the earth. bearing
testimony that prophets have been
raised up and have sealed their
testimony with their blood. Many
and varied efforts haYe been made
to destroy the saints and to destroy
but our enemies have not
been able to unite upon Il plan,
they differing III their views
of the mOduS OperG1ldt TO efface
the twin relic. There is no telling
to what extremes the nation will go,
il the Lord will let them. Armies
were sent into the south and they
spread devastation and death in
their efforts to destroy slavery, and
it is my opinion that the forty-tWo
representatives. who voted against
The sending out of Il commission to
)yerturn Our government, who voted
against our being disfranchised
without trial, spoke from the ex-
lerience they obtained in the his
DRY of commissioners and return
ng boards at their own homes. We
IAN feel assured that if we are faith
'ul to Our covenants and our duties,
he LORD has the power and will |
keep the nations in just the position |
Re wishes them to be in their deal |
ngs with us. Terrible judgments |
ire foretold and will follow our
testimony among the nations Of the |
earth.
ELDER GEORGE TRAsDALE felt |
hat we had been greatly encouraged |
~ the review Of Gods dealings with |
nan. About half century ago this |
work was commenced by God and |
me man. The speaker narrated the |
circumstances of the angel MorOni |
coming to the Prophet Josdph |
smith and telling him where the
plates were hid and when Joseph |
rot them he did not dodge but kept |
light on; also in the matter Of the |
translation of the Book Of Mormon
rom the plates and the testimony
,iven by angels that the Llates had |
cen translated through THAT boy:
hen the restoration of the Aaronic
by John the Baptist, for
herewas no one upon the earth hold
1.-THE power to confer on man that
We have the testimony
f Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery
hat John the Baptist had come and
estored the power Of the priesthood,
0 call to repentance and baptism
V immersion for the remission of
ms. Here we have two men and
lod. Then came the revelations to
Oseph, teaching him. i'll detail, the
rider and powers Of the Melchise-
&C Priesthood, of the elders, the
RESTS, the teachers and the ded-
ons, ard giving a promise that
very man who went to the world,
lviting the honest, should have
over tO CrI1ora0teo the uiff of fine |