The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-07-01
SUNDAY SERVICES.

The Tabernacle services on Sun
day afternoon last were BEGUN by
the choir singing the hymn C pm
mencing:
Come dearest Lord, descend and dwell,
BY faith aid love in every breast;
Then shall we know and taste and ,eel
The joys that cannot be expressed.
Prayer by Elder L. d. Young.
Singing Of the hymn:
Behold the great Radeemer die.
& broken law to satisfy;
He dies a sacrifice for sin
That man may live and glory win
ELDER JOHN @. CANNON first adj
dressed the congregation, remarking
that it was with feelings which he
was utterly unable to express that
he arose to speak, after an absence
of nearly three years; gratitude on
one hand and timidity on the other
formed the condition of his mind
but he relied on the pro mise made
to the effect that where two or
three are assembled in the name of
the Lord He would be with them:
and that to bless; his was satisfied
that the majority of those listening
to him had met in the name OF the
Lord. -Four days he had been at
home, and within six weeks it
would be three years since ne left
for mission to the Old World.
Arriving at Liverpool in due time,
he was shortly afterN ard assigned
to the London conference, where he
labored for short period, when the
then president of the European mis-.
sion, Elder Albert Darlington, mott
fed him that he was required to
labor in the German mission; it was
necessary for him to learn the Ian,
guage, in doing which the Lord
had helped him; he labored in that
field until released short
time ago; had enj iyed himself
immensely; had r, liked the pro-
mises made when he was set apart
and blessed, and had obtained tes-
timony which was thorough He
confessed that his testimony was
not complete before he left home :;
his belief was strong, but know,
ledge was not perfect concerning the
work he was engaged in; but while
away his unders andiug had been
| increased, his knowledge improved
and his testimony greatly strength.
ened. He now knew that God had
spoken, snd had restored the priest
hood, through which the human
family might be saved. Before he
went from Utah he heard that the
nations OF the world were the same
as the Athenians were when Paul
went among them; they had per-
verified and changed everything; the
people were content with what they
had received from their fyrefatb ers
yet many acknowledged the truth
of what he told them, and espe-
cially when he explained the hrst
principals OF the gospel, and proved
his position by passages OF Scripture,
a number said, "You are right"
He had spoken to thousands who
believed the principles of the gos-
pei, though few were willing to
obey them and be baptized after re-
penting. He referred, briefly, to
the present prospects Of the Swiss
and German mission. He said there
were some seventt en- elders in the
field. The laws were strict in some
parts OF Germany, result OF the
work of the Socialists, and 1t was
consequently difficult to introduce
the gospel. In Prussia there was
liberty to great extent; the Saints
we're allowed to meet and to adj
vertise their meetings in the papers,
but detectives were always present.
In Bavaria they had been forbidden
to preach, and in Baden the same
rule prevailed; in Switzerland, they
had full permission to hold meet
ings. Elder Cannon looked forward
to the time when the vigorous laws
prohibiting the PRONUNCIATION Of
the gospel would be broken. In Ba,
varia the laws and rules governing
religion were very severe: every
workman has a book in which his
name, age. occupation, religion, etc.,
are written: ii any faith except the
Catholic or Lutheran is written in
poor mans record he is refused t.
work and otherwise ill-treated. He
looked and prayed for more religious
| freedom at near day. The elders
had labored energeticaliy anC
faithfully; but the emigration wa
not so large in proportion to tn,
baptisms. The speaker bore a strons
testimony that he was laboring il
the work OF God anu that JOSEPH
Smith was a prophet, and this ties
timony he bore not because his par
ents or any one else had laugh
him; ne had obtained it for him
self. He was happy to be at hom
again, to Breathe the mountain
air, TO see the changes that had bee
made during his absence, aud wishe
to continue to labor steadfsstly fo
D the upbuilding of Zion. He close
by hoping that he and the Lattel
day Saints would remain faithfr
and true to the end.
APOSTLE MILFORD WOODRUFF
next arose, and said the congrega
ton and hlms elf had been liStenin
10 the testimony Of one of the Nor
mon mountain boys, who had bee
taught to so forth into the world
1t was the example of the whol