The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-07-04
SUNDAY SERVICES.


day Saints were held in the Taber-
nacle at p. m.
The choir sang the hymn:
Arise, Oglorious Zion,
Thou joy Of Latter days.
Prayer by Elder A. II. Raleigh,
The choir sang the hymn;
Sweetly may Thy blessed spirit
On each faithful bosom shine.
PRESIDENT GEORGE @. CANNON
addressed the congregation. 1t was
a great responsibility for man to
represent the Lord on earth as his
servant to give the congregation
the particular kind of food that was
necessary. 70 do this, the spirit of
God was needed. The faith which
GOO had restored to this people was
tangible. and brought its own COM
pensati9n. If the Lord did not hear
and answer prayer this church
would not exist in the face of the
scorn of the world, but the adher.
ents to the faith again restored to
the saints were convinced of its
truth. At times that are
past men have claimed
that they had revelations
from God for the people, but they
were invariably rejected. 1t re-
quired generation or two to pass
away before these revelations were
accepted as divine. Christ said a
lprophet was not without honor, ex-
cept in his own country. 1t was
Istrange that people should have
said; had we lived in the days of
our fathers we would not have per-
secuted the prophets, yet ut the
same time assented to the death of
the greatest of all prophets or per-
Isonages that ever dWelt upon the
earth-Jesus Christ. History has
again repeated itself. 1t has been a
rare case indeed in which mankind
has accepted a message from hea.
ven. To-day there are thousands
of houses of worship in the world
many of which are called after the
apostles of old. But should one oil
these old apostles appear in one OF
these churches and preach the
same doctrines he preached in the
days he lived on the earth, he
would without doubt be expelled
from the house. Yet what honor is
paid to these meu. People say
chad we only lived in the days OF
Savior and his apostles, we would
not have prosecuted them nor sought
their destruction" But are they
not rejecting prophets and apostles
lWho are preaching the same
lgospel ? There are thousand
in these mountains who had fel
THAT they would endure all kinds O
persecution, II they could only fnC
a nan of God to administer to then
the principles OF the gospel. WheI
lthey had heard the gospel preached
ihad found d man of God who coul(
administer in the manner of TIT
Lord, they Obeyed. About the tim
that Joseph Smith declared tina
lGod had revealed himself from tn
heavens, there was a great spirit o
inquiry in the United States ant
England, and the Canadas TO know
more about the plan of salvation
than their ministers were able t,
teach. God was preparing thei
minds for the truth, and when the.
iheard the testimony of the servants
of God, they bowed in obedience t.
lit. The great bulk Of the member
of the church in its early days Wer
persons who had been thus pre-
vailed. 1t was so in particular il
Ohio, when Sidney kigdon ant
Alexander Campbell had BEEF
preaching baptism by immersion
for the remission of sins. Whel
the elders went into Ohio and fount
the followers of these men the,
readily accepted the truth. Il wa
so when the elders went to Canada
where certain leading men Wer
preaching some of the first principle
Of the gospel. After" ards whel
President Taylor went to Franc
and Elder Erastus Snow went
- Denmark they found thousand
who were prepared to receive tn
truGh. Not only in those countrie
but also has this fact been apparen
in the Sandwich Islands, Australif
Europe and other countries, Wher
people have prayed that the Lor
would send them his servants wit
MS word and will, and when
came they received it. This was il
fulflment of the prophecy statin
that portions of various nation
5 should be taken by the Lord, one o
! city, two of a family, to Zior
e where they should serve him
= While missionaries are sent out b
all denominations it was strang
? fact that in no instance has tn
8 spirit fallen upon their prosperity
Z converts to gather to any give
: place. Certain churches had fo
: hundreds Of years sent out its mis-
s siOnaries to various nations but ]
g no case has there been a blending
% all nations into one. This was not
8 matter of persuasion, for when
: man in foreign nations EN- races b
: gospel, the first idea with him is
P GATHER to Zion which spirit Id give
2 of God. God had predicted that hi
q people should say, come, let US go u
q to the mountain OF the Lore
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