The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-06-26
SUNDAY SERVICES.

The services in the Tabernacle on
Sunday afternoon were opened by the
choir singing the hymn beginning:
Let sinners take their courses
And choose the road To death;
But in the worship of my God
Ill spend my daily breath.
The choir sang the hymn com
mencjng:
Afflicted Saint, to Chris draw near;
Thy SAVIOR gracious pr mise hear;
dis faithful word declares to thee
That 'es thy day Thy strength shsll
be-"
Elder John Nicholson addressed
the congregation, his subject being
the first principles Of the gospel of
Christ He said the firsG and funda-
mental principle is faith, and moth
ing was accomplished without it.
1t is faith that induces men to
search for knowledge. To conform
TO the Will OF God one must have
faith in God and his universal
power; faith in a plan formed in
heaven for the redemption and sal
walton of the human family;
faith in Jesus Christ, the Son
Of God, who was sent to
earth to suffer for the sins of the
world, ana who is the medium
through which man must return 10
the presence of the Father. Some
ignorant persons had asserted that
the saints did not believe i'll Jesus
Christ, but the very name-Church
Of Jesus Christ of Latter.day Saints
was proof of belief In the Savior.
The world taught and believed that
all that was necessary to be saved
was belief in Jesus Christ; but the
saints held that no one would be
saved by faith or belief alone, but
there must be faith and works COM
bined. Paul had faith in God be
fore he was converted to the gospel
1t was not faith that could have
saved him, but rather a faith that
would have led him down to de
struction. He prosecuted the saints,
believing he was serving the Lord
In doing so; but he was finally made
to see the error of his ways and to
accompany his faith by work. Re-
pentaDce of sin is the seco ID priH-
ciple of the gospel, and this doctrine
was the reatstumbiing block to the
acceptande of the gospel by the hui
man family. There must be a dis
continuance of sin and evil-doing, |
aud the leading Of new life, which |
the world would not do. The third
principle of the gospel is baptism, |
which is necessary to the remission
of sins, repentance alone not being
This is a law or ordi- |
nance OF God, and must |
De complied with by all who |
receive salvation. And the baptism |
must be made by immersion, as the
Lord had so ordained, Christ saying
except a man be born of water and |
he spirit he could never enter the |
Of heaven. Jesus was so
and all must toll w his
example, fulfilling every part Of the
ave- But this Will not admit per-
ION to Gods presence. There must
)e the baptism of the spirit and
power of God, of the Holy Ghost the
power and spirit by which men
NOW their position with reference
% their Maker. 1t is the influence
hat dispels darkness from the
mind and shows the individual the
ruth or fidelity Of the doctrines
rhe Holy Ghost is impaired by the
aging on Of hands by those having
to administer in the ordi-
lance. He elaborated at cOnsid
,rable length as to each of
ihese principles or doctrines,
luoting from the scriptures in con-
lrmation of his assertions.
The choir sang and Elder G. G.
Bywater pronounced the benedic-l
ion.