The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-05-27
SUNDAY SERVICES.

mencipg:
My soul is full Of peace and love,
/ soon shall see Christ from above;
And angels too, the hallowed throng.
Shall join With me in holy song.
Prayer by Elder Thomas Hail, o
st. George, following which tn
choir sang:
He died! the Great Redeemer died,
And Isrsel's daughters wept around;
A solemn darkness yelled the sky;
a sudden trembling shook the ground
PRESIDENT GEORGE @. CANNOr
on rising read the fourth chapter OF
Malachi. He remarked that in AZ
tenp ting to address a congregation
he did SO relying on the assistance o
the faith and prayers of his broth
rem and sisters, that what he might
say would prove beneficial to all
He said he had just returned from
the dedication of the Temple al
Logan; had had q most delightful
time, and felt to rejoice because the
people had been greatly favored Of
God in being permitted to finish enc
more temple. There had been great
rejoicing in Its completion. Those
engaged in building it had been
liberal and untiring in their dona
tons and labors. It was a pleas
ure to him to think that
amidst the many threats and intim-
idations made by the enemies Of the
Latter-day Saints, there was faith
enough found to prosecute such a
work. The Saints were not situated
as they once were, IN NauYoO, where
it seemed as though the workmen
on the temple there worked like
those in the days Of Nehemiah, their
instruments Of labor In one hand,
and weapons Of defense in the other;
they were in constant dread OF
mobs and violence; and while the
people of to-day have not experienced
this condition, they have not been
free from attacks, threats and COM
binations for their de structiOn, while
bnilding the Logan temple. I'm
discouraged and undismayed they
had pressed forward the work and
now had the satisfaction Of Witness
ing its completion. An unusual
faith was required. The building
Of temples by direct command Of
God was an important undertaking,
and would undoubtedly be met by
opposition from him who is determ-
ined to retard and hinder every
thing connected with Gods work.
The two elements of good and evil
would ever be arrayed against each
other. No sooner had the word gone
forth that God had spoken than an
antsgonism arose and the power OF
the Evil One was made manifest,
and it has continued, gathering
strength and increasing in volume,
against the work of God, and every
day showed that 1t was threatening
its overthrow; but, thanks be 10
God, the promises he had made had
not failed every word had been full.
filed. It sometimes seemed as
though the demolition Of the church
was assured, bat it continued and
grew until now it's influence illu-
mines the horizon. To look back
was interesting, as showing the
march of truth and fulflment of the
promises of the Almighty. Men
wondered why the Latter day
Saints believed in this work; why
Joseph Smith was thought to be
prophet of God. It was most ex-
traordinary to the speaker to think
that men with reason to Judge be-
tween truth end error, and with the
paIpable evidences before them,
should doubt; it had always seemed
to him, from his boyhood, strange
that such should be the case. God
had made promises concerning the
future Of the church, every word of
which had been fulfilled. When
Joseph Smith first received the
of the coming forth
If the Latter-day work he was but a
boy of IA; when he began the trans.
ation of the Book or Mormon he
was %, and when the church was
he was only "a years old.
The records in the Doctrine and
concerning the organiZs-
ion of the church, exhibit a power,
light and intelligence that could not
nave emanated from any other
source than God. President Cam
non then said he would read from
he book just mentioned one Of the
revelations received prior to the Or
yanlzation of the church on the 9th
If April, 1880, and said that if any
)ne else could read it and not be
with the idea tnat G ID
was in the work ne must indeed he
In extraordinary being; church
precisely as the ancient
church was, with the same officers,
ordinances and doctrines, and re-
vealed by an unlettered youth, was
There had never been
4 day during the fifty-four years of
5he existence of the Mormon chu: ch
that its elders did not maintain the
doctrines they started out 10 preach,
against the theologisns, ministers
and learned men OF the day. Tbs
sending out Of men from the pillow,
The bench and the workshop, un.
Iettered to preach the gospel, was
and showed the power
Of God to an extraordinary degree,
because wherever they had cone,
and whoever they had been brought
in contact with TO discuss, they hsd
always been successful. Let all