The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-02-08
SUNDAY SERVICES.

The opening hymn at the Assem-
bly, Hall on Sunday afternoon wa
the one on page 1853:
Zion stands " it'll hills surrounded
Zion, kept by power divine,
ali her foes shall be eonfounded,
Enough the world in arms comb ine
Happy Zion.
| What favored lot is thine!
Prayer by Elder Edward Stevenson
I15s:
l know that my Redeemer lives;
What comfort this sweet sentence gives
he lives, he lives, who once was deAdi
he lives, my everything headl
ELDER Milo ANDRUs addressed
the congregation. He said the great
difficulty that existed in the minds
OF those who professed to believe in
the church Of Christ was to under
stand the mode of coming into it.
Some said one way and some said
another = through immersion,
sprinkling, etc.-beiDg very liberal
Ill the matter, but did their liberal
lty come from the gospel of the Son
of God? If not it was a fraud. 1t
was the duty of all intelligent beings
to understand the gospel. When
John the Baptist came from Judea
he brought strange gospel, COM
manding his hearers to repent, for
the kingdom Of heaven was at hand.
This brought great opposition, the
people being opposed to finding out
whether it was true, but rather
to learn how they might
disproye it. Finally John sue
ceeded and baptized many, but
he told then that one would come
after who would baptize by fire and
the Holy Ghost. Jesus came, and
though of humble birth created
great excitement. God was with
him and preserved him. The ex-
element continued throughout his
life, for their was a conviction that
he was the Christ. His ministry
was short; few accepted the Cos
pei and he conferred upon his dis
ciples the authority for carrying on
the work that he began, giving the
instructions how to preach. He told
them to go forth and preach, when
he would follow them. On one oc-
casion, the day of Pentecost, the
people being in the temple at Jeru-
salem, the spirit Of God came upon
them, and they spake in tongues
and prophesied. Some said they
were crazy, and others that they
were drunk, when Peter beckoned
the crowd to be still, and said the
disciples were not drunk, but pro-
phets. This did not meet the appro-
baton of the Pharisees. The idea
of illiterate men revealing the
power and majesty Of the spirit of
God was not satisfactory. The same
spirit is at work now. The world is
deeply exercised over a little hand
full of people in these mountains.
What produced the aHimosity? The
fact that these people have the
power Of the Lord. The opposition
to the people began with the birth of
Christ. There was no particular diff
ferencebetWeen the saints and other
people, but as soon as the former
accepted the gospel they were cast
out mobbed and prosecuted. Some
said the persecution had arisen
lately because of polygamy, but this
was false. 1t had existed from the
first, and was aroused by the Nor
mons having the gospel of Christ.
They. had been instructed to go
forth and proclaim the gospel. pro-
a testimony Of its truth
would follow repentance and bap-
tism. That testimony had been re-
ceived, and as consequence people
had gathered here from all nations.
AS to the oppositioM to the saints |
they would mock while their enc
mics feared. They had a place of |
refuge wherein, it they kept Gods |
law, he would protect them. The |
speaker felt sad at times when bel
witnessed the efforts to destroy that
liberty in this country for which his
forefathers had fought; but he had
the assurance from above that the
kingdom of God had been estab-
Iished and would continue, despite
The opposition. He had been fifty
years in the church and spent
twenty-five years Of his life spread
ing the gospel to the human family.
people to knowledge of
The truth, which he knew would
triumph.
ELDER JOHN MORGAN next ad-
dressed the congregation, first read
ng the command of the Savior to
90 "into all the world and preach the
gospel to every creature" which
was a positive instruction from
Christ. which instruction was being
,beyed by the saints in this age
The speaker referred to the vindic-
,iveness and want of the true Chris
ian spirit of the world which was
calling for the sword to be used in
destroying the little handful of |
people in these mountains. He
thought it displayed a weakness
In order to gain adj
to the church of God, it was
necessary to repent and be baptized
sor the remission of sins. After
hat would come the gift Of the
Holy Ghost, the promise being unto
ILL.,. This gift was not enjoyed by
he world, for the latter did not
know that Jesus was the Christ, eX-
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