The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-01-29
SUNDAY SERVICES.

the choir singing the hymn begin
ming.
Softly beams The sacred dawning
Ofthe great milleunisl morn,
| And to saints gives welcome waning
That the day is hasting on.
Prayer by Elder Joseph Woodmsn'
see.
The choir sang tie hymn com.
mencing:
Arise, my soul, arise,
Shake off thy guilty fesrs;
The bleeding .acrifi, e
Ia my behalf appears;
Before the throne my surety stands,
My name is written on his hands.
PRESIDENT GEORGE Q. CANNON ad-
dressed the congregation, first read
ing from the 21st chapter of Mat
thew, the Esd verse and forward.
He said a Lstter-day Saint, reading
then ewTestam snt is deeply impressed
by the similarity of the circumstances
which surrounded Jesus and his dis.
ciples and those which surround his
people in this sgs; also by the simi-
lsrlity OF the spirit that actuated the
people anoieutly, and that which ac-
tuates them to-day. This is an age
where il is fashionable to throw doubt
upon the Bible. There is q class of
advanced thinkers" who have made
such rapid progress that they have
left the Bible behind. I. is not in
frequent for those who call them
selves ministers OF Christ, to leave
the Bible. and preach the doctrines
ofDarwin and his school of advanced
thinkers. There are ways for prov.
ing the truthfulness OF the Bible his
tory. and the correctness OF it's doc
trines. Doubters ask how they are
to know concerning the truth OF
those things. The saints have Q very
simple method for finding on: the
truth OF the Bible. For instance. il
man will investigate the gospel of
Christ az taught by the Lords saints,
be will awaken to the consciousness
Of the existence in the world of O
spirit like that which was executed in
the age of Christ. He will learn that
i. is spirit of persecution, and that
soon he will be hated and shamed by
his former friends and associates.
People have wondered why the
hate and animosity should be enter
tanned against the saints whose lives
we're pure and upright and when
doctrines were those OF the scriptures.
The wonder had disappeared whose
people had turned their intention to
the investigation to the principles Of
the gospel, for them the same spirit
that was manife,ted toward the saints
was extended toward the investigators.
The saints are witnesses to the truth
Of this, for before uniting with the
church in their native lands, they
lived with their neighbors upon terms
Of SOCIAL equality and friendship; but
when they heard the elders and began
to investigate the principles of the
gospel, they found that their neigh.
bors turned against them, and old
friendships and associates were
broken of. This was the experience
II every one. The treatment received
had been confined to the saints; men
and women espoused other religions
without experiencing such treatment.
There was no disposition to tolerate
The saints and their :.t:yines, who
we're met by opposition o; the most
desperate character. II one will read
in the New Testament the history of
Jesus Christ, he will at once see the
similarity between the treatment he |
and his disciples received and that to |
which the saints had been subjected. |
La view of this the saints have i'm.
plicit faith in the Bible. for they know
that no one not inspired by the Lord
could have written 90 faithful and
truthful q history. He said if he were
, stranger to the saints, and should
visit them and find them q peaceable
quiet people, minding their own bust.
ness and having no quarrels, living at |
peace with each other it seemed that
be would be deeply impressed. He
would see a city comparatively free
from drunkenness, blssphemy, gam
bling, riots and disturbances of
the pace and violations of good
order; and he we're TO understand
that these were people
against whom 80 much was said, it
would seem that be would be COM
PEELED to Investigate. and if possible
discover the cause OF the srimosity.
II be had travelled ne would know
that a different condition of affairs
existed that crime in its most hideous
forms was being practiced without
exciting the special condemnation OF
Presidents, Senators and: Representa-
tives. He had often thought that the
world would be condemned because
of its refusal to except the evidences
that were open to it. II any other
people but Mormons mad done what
the latter had done, there would have
been no end OF praise Tor their noble
conduct and great achievements.
The lacss that they live in peace and
union, that they teach temperance.
morality and virtue, are heid against
them. When man reads the Bible he
finds Jesus a being above and beyond
all men, teaching purity and Upright
ness in all things. One would think