The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-10-23
SUNDAY SERVICES.

The services in the Assembly
Hall, on Sunday afternoon, were
opened by the choir singing the
hymn beginning:
Praise to God, immortal praise,
For the love that crowns our days;
Bounteous source Of every joy,
Let thy praise our tongues employ.
Prayer by Elder E. Snelgrove.
The choir sang the hymn begin>
ming:
OGod, th' Eternal Father,
Who dwells amid the sky!
In Jesus name we ask thee,
To bless and ssnctify,
five are pure before thee
This bread and cup of wire,
Thst we may all remember
The off ring so divine.
ELDER M. F. COWLEY adj
dressed the congregation. 1t
had teen said that the saints
were peculiar people, and this is
True, for God had required them to
take a peculiar course. People
thought it was strange that the
saints hould believe that God had
spoken from the heaven in latter
times, yet it was no more strange
that he should thus speak now than
formerly. The saints believed in
the holy scriptures literally, and
that all the prophetic utterances
therein would be fulfilled to the let
ter: and also that the Lords com
mands in the Bible must be com.
piled with in order to obtain saliva
ti0n. There is striking SINH
larity between the religious
sentiment of this age and that
of ancient times, is illustrated in
the prophecies of the ancients con-
corning the coming Of the Son of
God. The Jews heard the prophe-
cies, and yet when the Savior came
as predicted they did not know that
he was the Christ. In this age
there are hundreds of thousands of
people who profess to believe in the
New Testament, yet rotwithstand-
ing Johns prediction that the gospel
would be restored in these times
had been literally fulfilled, few
would accept it. The world says it
has not been without the gospel,
and therefore it rejects the true
message of the Lord. The
world does this, notwiths landing
the gospel that the saints preach as
having come from God, is the same
that Jesus and His disciples
preached, and the church is organ
lied in the same manner and with
the same officers and authority that
formerly characterized it. The
same gifts also follow acceptance Of
and belief in the gospel that were
enjoyed by believers formerly. The
organization was essential to the
true church, and the saints are the
only people who have that Organiza
ton in its regularity and entirety.
They have the prophets, apostles,
seventies, elders and so on who
enjoy the gifts and blessings that
had been promised. There are
hundreds of different religious de-
nominations on the earth, yet there
Is but one God. one order, and there
can be but one true church. The
others had all gone astray, the Lat
ter-day Saints alone having the
church in it's purity and correctness
as established by the Lord. The
Elder quoted largely from the
scriptures In support of his assertion
and the position assumed by the
saints; and in conclusion bore tes-
timony to the knowledge that the
angel seen by John had brought
the gospel to Joseph Smith who was
prophet of the living God, specially
chosen as the medium through
which the gospel was to be restored
to the earth that the human family
might be saved.
The choir sang an anthem and
Elder osephKingsbury pronounced
the benedictlon.
I1II A. No-k.