The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-07-22
SUNDAY SERVICES.

sunday afternoon lsss were begun
by tbs choir singing the hymn cons
mencing:
Gan praise 70 our redsemine Lord"
Prayer by Elder Seymour B.
Young.
The services were further con-
tinued by the choir singing the
hymn beginning:
81 know that my Redeemer lives"
BISHOP O. F. WHITNEY arose 10
speak to the congregation, and in
doing so, said he yielded more to the
request of those having the right to
call him than to his own feelings;
he would prefer to sit and listen :
but, since the request was made, he
did not feel like shirking, and hoped
his words would be dictated by the
proper spirit. God, who called to.
gether the Saints to partake OF the
emblems Of the broken body and
blood of Jesus Christ, knew the dea
slres and intentions of all who arose
to speak, and gave the necessary in.
slructione, through the speakers, for
all to 60 On and progress in the
truths of heaven. If those instruc-
tions were followed they would lead
all back to the presence or Oar
Father in heaven. He tlusted that
all his hearers had an aim to attain
to the presence Of Our Father and
GOD: the was no other object
for humanity. Everybody wss
placed on the earth to work and
develop the faith that was in them.
1t was the intention of God AL
mighty to have all prepare them
selves for the society Of heavenly
beings, with whom all were cup
posed to hope to associate. This.
should be the aim of all; and all
other objects in life would sink into
insignifcance if this aim were
maintained. The Savior told his
followers to seek first the kingdom
of God and all else would be added
unto them. He instructed them to
follow the straight path, neither
turning to the right hand nor to the
left, and tho elders of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
did the same. In coming together,
Sabbath after Sabbath, they re-
freshed their minds with the prin
ciples of the plan OF Salvation. In
their efforts to preach the gospel of
Jesus Christ thsy had enc end in
view: the working out OF their own
salvation and teaching those of the
world to work out theirs. He be-
lieved the Lord had revealed His
will fr IN heaven, and had sent an
angel, even as he had said he would,
| to precede the judgments of God,
and to preach the everlasting gos-
pei. This angel, seen by John the
Revelator while on the Isle of Pat
mos, foretold the goseel which shoud
be restored TO the earth in he latter
days. John saw the history OF the
world from the beginning to the
time in which he lived, while he
lived and down to the millennium,
when Jesus should come to reign as
King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
The promise made by Jesus, in the
case OF John the Revelator, that his
life should be perpetuated, was
shown to tbs prophet Joseph to
have been verified; that he did not
taste of death. John saw the COM
ing of Christ, and the restoration of
the gospel which should precede the
coming OF the end. He said: "And
l saw another angel fly In the midst
of heaven, having the everlasting
gospel to preach to them that dwell
on the earth, and to every nation,
and kindred, and tongue, and people
saying. with loud voice, sFear God,
and give glory to him, for the hour
of his judgment is come" ThiR,
the speaker said, referred to the
gospel which should DE preached
preceding the Judgment Day. The
Latter-day Saints testified that the
angel had brought back the gospel
to the earth, and tie words of Jesue
that the gospel should be prsached
to all the world before the end
should come, were being fulfilled by
them. Tne mercy and loving kind.
ness of Jesus to humanity was
shown by his prediction that the
gospel should be preached to all
thus giving all a chance to embrace
1T. Those who rejected it of course
would suffer the consequences. And
this mercy of Jesus Christ was pat
termed after by the Latter>day
! Saints, who were willing to leave
home and family, father and
mother, sister and brother, and sa4
crif thelr ALL. to 60 and proclaim
the gospel, They ara DESTROYS Of
standing clear of the blood of all
men before the Judgment seat Of
God. This is the testimony of the
saints in these The Ia ter days. They
claim TO be the descendants OF
Abraham. Isaiah said, "The noun
tain Of the Lords house shall be ca,
tablished in the top OF the noun,
tains. and shall be exalted above
the hills, and all nations shall flow
unto it. And many, many K eopl'
80 and ssy, Come ye, and LIT Us e
: 10 TO to the mountain OF the Lord
to the house Of the God OF Jacob
and he will teach Us CT his ways
, and we will walk in his paths
This was to be in the last days