The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-07-09
SUNDAY SERVICES.

the choir singing the hymn com
mencing:
Guide US. @ thou crest Jehovah.
oAints unto the promised land;
we are weak but thou art able:
d 10 US with thy powerful hand.
Holy Spirit
Feed US till tho Savior comes.
Elder Carl G Maeser prayed, and
the choir sang the hymn:
0 Lord of Hosts we now awake
Thy Spirit most divine,
10 clesnse our hearts while we PAL
take
The bloken bresd and wine.
APOSTLE GEORGE TEAsDALE oc-
cupied the stand. He began his
address by saying it was unexpected
on his pErt to be called upon, but
that he would rely en- the faith and
pray ers of the Saints and upon the
Lord for words to speak; he would
endeavor by this aid TO explain the
hope that was within him. The
future welfare of mankind would
be the subject of his rem srks. All
the Holy men of God. who knew
anything OF the science of theology,
advocated the principles that men
would berewarded according to the
deeds done 10 the body. Jesus said
he was the way, the life, etc. and
Paul to the Saints at Ephesus de-
cla,ed there was zone Lord, one
faith, one baptism, one God and
Father Of all, who is above all, and
through all, and in you ALL" The
reason that Christ and his apostles
were SO unpopular was because they
taught the only way to be saved.
The Latter.dsy Saints were SINH
larly unpopular because they
preached the same doctrines; they
caught the true plan of salvation,
the atonement, and the necessity of
having a roperly authorized priest
hood to preach and administer in
the ordinances of the gospel; they
believed the priesthood was now
on the earth and, in perfect
working order; that it had
been received at the hands
of Jesus Christ himself, aud
that those who were labor
ing in the priesthood possessed
the power and authority of the
gospel; they were taught If God,
in the school of God, and were not
learned and educated in the schools
of the world. He referred to the
unlearned apostles of the time of
Christ, going to preach to the Phar-
isees ana the learned men Of that
period, and even reproeirg them;
they were an innovation and were
disIiked in consequence, and the
Latter day Saints were like them in
that respect. TIE ashamed were
battling with error, superstition and
false doctrine, and in their case it
was history repeating Itself. Jesus
Christ taught The truth, but his
unpopular doctrine was not be-
lieved by the Christian warld, He
epoke of the crucifXion of j esuS aud
the laoors OF his apostles after his
death and resurrection, their work
in teaching the principles of the
gospel to Gentiles and their subss-
quent msrtyrdom, and asked, what
was the matter with them? Simply
because their doctrines were unpop.
ular. He mentioned having read a
discourse of the Rev. Talmage's, in
which that divine advocated the
sending Of United States troops 10
hold the Mormons in subsection,
and said that minister had muir
der in his heart, which was
contrary to the spirit of Christ or
any of its true followers. John
the Revelster was banished to the
Isle OF Patmos because he taught
the gospel OF the Son of God, and
while there saw many visions,
among which was the one men
toned in Revelations xiv, 9th to
18th verses, which the speaker read.
John saw the church of the Lamb,
and the establishment of the king
dom. The testimony of the Latter.
day Saints was that the angel had
come, ard that testimony has never
yet been imreached. Joseph Smith
and Oliver CoWdery first received
the Aaronic priesthood and subse-
quently the Melchisedec priesthood
from Peter, ] smes and John, who
had the keys and power given to
them. The Saints declare that
Jesus Christ has revealed himself
from the heavens In the latter days,
and the elders of the church were
being sent out to preach the gospel
to the world as a witness before the
emu should come. The nations did
not believe this, but that was
nothing. How MANY believed in
the days of Noah? And how was it
in the days Of the apostles, whose
blood was shed for the truths sake?
The gospel was taken from the
earth; il has been restored, and the
Saints ar. laboripg in its
interests. The Christian world
did not believe in the
scriptures In their entirety; they
did not acknowledge that there is
s'one body and one spirit; one faith
and one baptism" This assertion
was proven by the Christian world
having 50 many different modes Of
baptism - sprinkling, dipping and
immersing, and so on. And ag ain
they did not believe what Paul said
in regard to the organization of the
church when he said, "And he gave
some apostles, and some prophets
--o-ooI1nko and 49,