The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-11-27
SUNDAY SERVICES.

The services in the Assembly
Hall, on Sunday afternoon, were
opened by the choir singing the
hymn beginning:
When Ged's own people stand in nesd,
His goodness will provide supplies;
Thus, when Elijah f4ints for bresd,
A ravea TO his succor flies.
Prayer. by Elder A. Il. Raleigh.
Tns choir sang tae hmm COM
menciag:
Behold the great Redseme r die,
A proEen lew to satisfy;
He dies facrifce for sin,
That men may live sn1 glory wiz.
ELDaR HEs9Y 4. Wool IY al
dressed the congregation, giving G
pref scosua: Ci ala late mission 20
the Sauda.on islands. FJY ysar
snd = hail he had lapofsd 1T TIE
ohurea p;sntSIlou on Laie. sitter
which be bad asssd tour months
10 sbs Eelal-try On snsf i.iaDds Tbs
mi,sipn IL sisidsd INFO FIVE districts,
elders bslng assigned for each. At
she pixns&siea . new meetlDg-aOuse
Is bean sr.ossd. The ns.ivss were
.sldon slisssd 10 sasisrate, though
the kixS bad oocasionsliy. given GEN.
SEPT - ths coming of lev OF tue
admits. The mission 10 IN . prospsr-
Gus condition, and the ehurcn mem
bon ship - a. great IS ~ Aoy time Ia
its history.
ELDER WILLIAM N. PALMER nsxt
addressed the congregation. He also
bad recently rssurEed from a mission
ID tbs HeYthwestsra States. The PEG
pie were intensely preiudicsd against
the saints, eausiug the elders mauy
trials AID hsfdships in order to epread
the gospel. The elders went forth
preaching the gospel in humility
and hum bleBess, and were more or
less sacrificed 10 their efforts to brl1 q
the world to knowledge OF toe trutt !.
Il seemed q pleasure for the pres
and pulpit to belle and traduce the
saints. The elders were actuated By
different feelings. They went forth
with their lives in their hands, teach
ing peace and love, asking their
hearers to believe in truth and right
eousness; teaching repentance and
baptitm for the remission of sins, and
prom sing certain signs should follow
belief in the gospel of Christ. The
Elders are gathering the honest ia
b art, and in doing 90 suffer hard
sDiDs, many time living on one meal
. day. sleeping in schoolhouses. in
barns, yards and corn6eids. They
would not do this II they did not
know that they were doing Gods
service in spreading bis gospel, and
bringing the world t. q knowledge of
the plan Of salvation. They realize
thsro is @ heavy responsibility resting
upon the@, in warning the world be.
fore ths judgments OF God descend
upon mankind. The pulpit and press
will CRY down the saints, why3 Be-
oAued tha latter bare esn chosen by
'hs Lord TO DO ais people. and given
Iheu h,s gospel. However the saints
bad The promise that they should
not b Destroyed, and they knew shat
he gospel ia which they believed
would 1sssf again b taken from the
,afth. 1Aey were warning mankind
md satese,nE the righteous who
Eere 10 bald temples and gloriiy
3od. 2hs Lord desires his followers
g peovs thsg are his people, by obey
Dg oil A1 cen maodments and max
% whatever sacrifices he may re-
|uire ~ their hands, whether 1t be
ne ssinK spon . mission. .hs sur
OF property TO be real in
lis RlsrlhcAtiop, or anything else.
he lsst summer the elders bal been
much in Indiana, being
pal. upon, pelted With eggs and |
AIRED and feathered. Yet they felt |
bat they we're doing Gods seryica. |
nd therefore they we're cheerful in
heir labors.
PRESIDENT JOHN TAYLOR spoke
rie6y saying the work in which the
aints were engaged was different ma
srialy from anything else in the world
,-day. God had SPOKEN. the heavens
ad been opened. toe Lord had re-
called His will. sending forth mes.
age OF light, lite, intelligence and
nth; this ia not received very gra-
lousy by the reople of this nation. 1t
"a lite for the CHRISTIAN aud rightly |
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