The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-10-06
ASSEMBLY HALL, ? O'CLOCK.

ASSEMBLY HALL, 2 O'CLOCK,
President Taylor called the con-
gregation to order and the choir
sang the hymn:
"Coma, Holy Ghost, our hearss lisp re,
LIE! u ihine iodue1cs prove, ssags&ass
) arcs Of the old prophetic IRE,
Fountain of light and love-"
Prayer by Apostle Lorenzo Snow.
The choir sang;
80 Jesus, the glyer OF all wo eajoy,
Our lives TO thy homer we wish 10 en-
p'oy,n
President Milford Woodruff ad-
dressed the congregation. This
church was organized upon the
earth fifty-two years ago last A pril.
This dispensation is most i'm
portant one. The gospel oil Jesus
Christ. che duties of the offices of
the priesthood and mans relation
ship to God in a state like the
present, are subjects that had re-
quired the deepest interest of
every man who has attained to
any proficiency in them. No man
since the days of Father Adam ever
had power to organize the church of
God upon the earth save he first re-
ceived it from on high. The Lord
never did anything in the creation
or redemption of the world only
upon the principle of the priest
hood. He has always, the speaker
believed, operated in all things I'M
der and by this power. The Aaronic
and Melchizedic priesthoods had
both been restored to Joseph Smith
before he attempted to perform any
work in the name of Jesus Christ.
The church was organized after the
ancient pattern, and the world was
afraid of it. The world maryeled
how a young man like Joseph Smith
should organize a church so per-
fectly, but he knew no more than
anyone else about the true organiza-
ton before it was revealed to him.
He had to do everything by instruc-
ton, by revelation. No man has
wisdom to direct in the affairs of the
church and kingdom of God unless
he is guided by inspiration. Three
years before Adams death he
called his posterity together
| in the valley of Adam-ondi
amman aud blessed them anG
prophesied what should befall
them down to the latest age. Those
portions of his prophesies that have
not been fulfilled will as surely be
as some portions that have already
been fulfilled. The keys, powers
| and blessings pertaining to al
former dispensations all belong t
| the present, which makes this tne
/ dispensation of the fulnesS Of time
| the greatest Of all ages. If this was
not The work of God it would have
been OyerthroWn q long time ago
| 1t requires faith in men to face the
prosecutions of the world. The
neaIer we get to the Lord the more
| faith we have; the farther from hin
we get the darker and more fearful
| we become. The Jews slew The
| Messiah, and the apostles went bacl
to their nets. They considered TIT
work was all over. But Christ mad'
himself manifest, and wheE the.
lreceiyed the Holy Ghost they wen
forth to preach the plan Of saliva
ton to th"ir fellows Blu
there was no dispensatiOn S
important as this. How cal
Mormon SIN stand IN opposition t
the will of fifty millions of people il
! America, if it is not tie work 0
God. This kingdom, the Zion O
God, will be established in the cart
in spite of the feelings of men. Th
| Lord has called out from the nation
of the earth men whom he has CON
manded to build temples aud II
deem the dead, and the world doe
not like it. If we were like til
: world the world would not oppos
us, but we know our cause is divin
and God has backed up our test
(, mony now for half a century.
has been said that Joseph Smit
Brigham Young and others sougt
! the lives and injury OF their fello
men. But the speaker had ira
eled. with Joseph Smith and Bri
ham Young thousands of mile
= been with them in their council
aud knew that they never cou
seled any wrong doin
There has been much sl
: about the Mountain Mea
ow massacre. but though I'll
people were charged with it th'
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