The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-02-06
SUNDAY SERVICES.
At the Assembly Hall on Sunday
afternoon the choir sang the hymn
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OOGpAAAAAS
To him who made the world.
The sun, the moon and stars,
And all that in them is,
With days, and months, and years;
To Him who died
That we might live,
Our thanks and songs
We freely give.
Prayer by Elder John Morgan.
The choir sang the hymn Oh page
156.
OGod, the Eternal Father,
Who dRells amid the sky!
PRESIDENT WOODRUFF addressed
the congregation. He said there were
few changes in the world in regerd
to belief in the Biblu. There may
be some who still believe in the old
and new tsstaments, but if so they
were few. The Latter-day Saints
still believed implicently in both
those teStamentS. He said
he lad coVenated with the
Lord that whatever he would give
him he would give to the people.
All were dependent upon God, no
one being able to edify, except by
the dictates Of the Holy Spirit. BY
that power the elders had been able
to gather the saints in these noun
tains. Anciently holy men spoke
Us they were moved upon by the
Holy Ghost, just as Daniel did IN
the Interpretation of the dream. 1t
was in fulfllment Of that prophecy
or Interpretation that the saints
were here to-day. If this were not
the work of God, the people would
not be here to-day, and Utah would
be as barren as IN AT, when the
pioneers arrived in these valleys
1t was surprising to him that The
world had strayed so far from the
teachings of the Bible. God had
in fulfllment Of the Bible and Boob
of Mormon, raised up great nation
on this continent. 1t had beer
brought about in Gods way
in order that he NIGH
establish his kingdom. 1t wa:
strange that the Christian worlC
had no idea that God was going t.
fulfill the prophecies of the Bible
yet the saints were engaged in full
filling those prophecies before TIT
eyes of the whole world. The,
were preaching the gospel of Christ
which had been again restored tt
the earth. 1t is the same gospel al
that which Christ had preached, ant
would continue the same to the ent
of time. Since the days of Christ
no church had taught the gospel a
it was taught in the New Tesla
ment. No ministers or reformer
had been called of God to preacl
that gospel. Luther, Calvin ant
Others were instruments in tn,
hands of the Lord for performing &;
certain work, but they were no
prophets. nor were they directed
to preach the gospel of Christ
In this generation God had calle(
Joseph Smith to preach his gospel
and gave him the keys of the king
ldom. With the direction of God ant
lhis angels the church had been or
ganized after the pattern of tn,
/ church of Christ, with prophets
Iapostles, inspired men, etc. Every
thing had been done by the poWe
of the eternal priesthood, and in ut
age had any man been called to ad
minister in any of the ordinances O.
Christ without that priesthood. 10
seph Smith had received both thu
Aaronic and Melchesede priesthood
and all the keys of the kingdom
belonging to this dispensation; ant
when he conferred these upon othe
men, he was called to the spiri
world. The elders held thosu
priesthoods, and under them Wer,
preaching the gospel to the people o
the earth, and performing the Worl
that had been assigned to them
The world was arrayed agains
them and the work in which the,
were engaged, but the kingdom, a
David had prophesied, could not b
stayed, It would be like the ston
cut out Of the mountain, Whicl
would eventually fill the Who'll
earth. No power could stay it
progress. No greater prophet tha
Joseph Smith had ever lived on tn
earth since Jesus Christ. The saint
need have no fears concerning wha
the world might do. God rules til
destinieS Of nations in this land, an
when men make war upon th
church they make war upon Goo
That nation or kingdom that make
war upon the church of Christ, woul
certainly be ground in pieces. Go
: will fight the battles of this people
Iall the latter had to do was to B
faithful to the covenants they ha
made. In this was their strengt
They would not fave to take u
/ the sword and stain their hano
with the blood of their fellow mai
but God would bring down b
Judgments upon the children of me
who fought against his kingdom
President WOODRUFF exhorted tn
saints to be faithful to thegespel CO..
enants they had made, when Go
would fulfill all the promises ths
He had made to those who obeye
him.
ELDER J. SToDDARD, who had r
Gently returned from a foreign mi
sion, addressed the congregatio
briefly, bearing testimony to h
knowledge of the truth of the gosp
as revealed through Joseph Smit
ELDER JOHN MORGAN was IL
last speaker of the afternoon. II
discourse was in the line of that I
iPrncidant Woodruff oonaarninO ri