The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-04-10
r.bn Alexander, Brighton.
SANDWICH ISLANDS.

Inni ~ TO labor as missionarie
apg yor tbe direction Of the twelvt
2pTFS ' D. Zundel, Washakie.
amos r. Wright, bennington.
L IT;IIiam Lee, Grantsville.
" us nencer. Indianola.
JOpR Thurber, Rich6eld.
George e. W. Bean,
T SGg Johnson, Kanab.
LToSraemiah Hatch, Ashley.
I tnggst9 ii P Hardy, St. George.
a Henry ~ Lunt, Cedar.
aa5Laiiam A. Kimball, Kanosh.
1TTa HYDE, Montezuma.
Tbajes Haskell,
7 nfber C. Burnham, Pennington
New Mexico.
,ngust Teitjen. SayOla, Arizona.
1of smith, Sunset, Arizona.
I Ios \, Smith, Snowflake, Arizona
! F, Macdonald, Mesa, Arizona.
NJ W, Dalton, Willard:
TIeWellyn Harris, Escalante.
PRESIDENT JOHN TAYLOR said j;
We have had a very interesting
difference. and have received
much good instruction. We oe
nnnv a peculiar position upon the
Garth God having selected US from
among the nations to build up his
Fingd0m. Men holding the priest
hood in the heavens who had
nrophesied concerning great events
70 franspire in the last days, have
been commissioned to come to the
earth and introduce the principles
of the gospel. The faith of the
saints among the inhabitants of the
earth acts as the leayen to leaven
the whole lump. Great tribulations
will oVertake the wicke i; and they
will STAY each other. But those
who's are DESTROYS to serve God shall
be blessed to inherit the earth, and
they shall possess the kingdom OF
God in its greatness. Before that
time, however, a great labor must
be performed by the agencies intro
duced by the Lord,in order TO bring
to pass the great events spoken
Of For tthis purpose the priest
hsOd has been restored and
the gospel preached to the nations
of the earth so that the Lord might
have g people who would do his
will. We have all been baptized
unto Christ and have received the
Holy Ghost. Wherever the same
blessings have been received among
the nations the same effects have
been produced, the same spirit
rests upon the whole. The speaker
had preached to nations in three
different languages and had seen
the same operations Of the spirit
among each nation. Jesus said.
my sheep know my voice and they
will follow me but a stranger will
they not follow. Hence Israel has
been called from the nations. We
used to sing in other lands that we
would gather to Zion; in fact so
great was our desire to come that
We could not be kept away. At one
Of our own public exhibitions some
lew years since there were twenty
i've different natiOnalities represent
ated by a person from each nation.
A mission of light and intelligence
that viii elevate the world has been
given to us. Who are the world, and
who are we? We say we are the
children Of God, our Heavenly
Father: so also are all nations,
of the same Eternal Parent.
As a kind and benifcent Father for
ages, he has been seeking to pro
mote the happiness of his children.
God is the fountain of all inCelli-
gence. His hand is over the nations
as well as over Us, and he is inter
ested in their welfare as well as in
ouTs.
Had Abraham lived in our days
he would probably have been called |
70 an account concerning polygany. |
The Lord, however, chose him to be
the father Of the faithful, in whom
shall all the nations of the earth be
blessed. There are many honorable |
men in the world who do not
the ways of the Lord. !
Of this element God has been,
md will yet take two of a |
lily and one OF a family and bring
hem to Zion, from whence, after
hey have been taught, they will go
10 the nation as swift messengers
,arrying the glad tidings Of great |
10y, 1t had been said that the
founders Of this government were
inspired of God. The were not
larrOw-minded. They framed a |
great palladium of human rights
guaranteeing liberty to all peoples.
But at the time Mr.. Edmunds was
introducing his bill a great number
OF congressman we're found who
could afford to ttample under foot
tle principles of liberty, 3ho could
With impunity trail in the dust the
lag ef their county. When the
l1mundS law had passed attempts
1ere successfully made to gag the
sl0lIc by depriving citizens of their
y5slots. Had any man right to
Place test oath before US to de i
gllye US of our votes? No, but we
nill withdraw from the polls and
i-0J act as obstructionists, But
;sI these innovations be tested
n the courts to see if the
~ constitution will sustain them.
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