The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-11-26
The Regular Sunday Services
i'm the Tabernacle.
MISSIONARIES EXPERIENCES.
Rv Elders Leo CIawsOn and Georgc
acknowledgements by Frest.
George Q. Cannon.

O'Clock, by the choir singing the hymn:
praise to God, immortal praise"
Prayer by Henry P. Richards.
Choir sang another hymn:
esprit of faith come down"
The holy sacrament was then admin
istered by the priesthood of the Ninth
Ward.
ELDER LEO H. CLAwsoN recounted his
experience on his mission to England
and from which he has just returned.
He had met with the opposition he had
anticipated, in endeavoring to preach
the gospel of Jesus Christ. Indifference
is manifested by the people Of England
in listening to anything that pertains
to their salvation hereafter, while they
will flock in great crowds to political
and other meetings. His mission had
been valuable to himself in giving him
further. testimony of the truth of the
gospel as taught by the Latter-day
Saints. He had witnessed the power OF
God manifested in healing the sick,
being nothing short of miracles demon
strated upon the Saints and himself.
He had received evidence upon evidence
and felt thankful to God for his mercies,
and that he had been permitted to re-
turn home in safety.
ELDER GEORGE GODDARD SAID II he
gave vent in words to the feelings OF has
heart, he would say, Glory HalleluJah!
for it is good to be here. Thlrty-three
wears ago last January he became
member of the church. Leaving his
native country, England, he came to
Utah thirty years ago, and renamed
until Nav of this year, when he lett on
4 visit to the ''Old country to see Tela-
tives and friends. After the usual ex-
Deriences of a trip over the Atlantic,
with other four elders he accompanied,
he reached Liverpool in safety. Visiting
his sister in Manchester he experienced
a joyful time. Two of his brothers re-
fused to permit him to visit their faml-
lies or converse with them. He made
visits through six conferences OF the
English mission and had time OF re-
ioicing in meeting the Saints, and elders
from Utlh. Missionary labors are now
much more arduous than in times past.
Now it needs the young and strong,
those who are enabled to walk, say four
hundred miles each month, for they
have no alternative but to walk from
place TO place in travelling around
among the Saints and preaching the
gospel without purse or scrip. COM
nenting upon the habits and customs
of the people he noted the frequent use
among old and young of both sexes, OF
very strong tea as drink at every meal.
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interrupted by a once resident OF this
CITY. Jarman, who is now rabid opposer
of the church of God. He had the
pleasure OF accompanying President
John Henry Smith and Brother George
c. Lambert on a visit to Dublin and Bel
fast, Ireland In appeared as If good
work would yet be done In that country.
in visiting Leicester he call upon Mr..
Cook, the well-knOwn excursion agent,
and upon his request and making ar
rangementS, consented to deliver a
temperance lecture, but the committee
to whom the matter was referred by Mr..
Cook refused to permit 1t to be given.
He obtained a hall, did considerable adj
vertiSing and endeavored to hold a
meeting, which was broken up in great
confusion by men who went there for
that purpose. An absence of six
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excellent health, and spoken in the put-
lie streets. and in private, interviewed
ministers, and others, had distributed
tracts, and bore a faithful testimony TO
the truth of the work of God.
President GEORGE Q. CANNON said he
was desired to occupy the few remain
ing moments. The experiences and
testimonies OF the missionaries are al
ways very interesting to himself, and
particularly those of the young brethren.
When a young man leaves home to go
out into cold and unsympathetic
world, without purse and scrip, he is
compelled to depend upon God for his
guiding care. 1t is an excellent OppOr-
tunity to young men to learn the truth
or falsity of that which their parents
have taught them. Such a young man
has an opportunity Of testing God, and
finding out that God can and does answer
prayers and give unto him that which
he needs. They can thus learn most
cOnvincinglv that this Is the work of
God That was how l learned the truth.
Two objects are accomplished by thus
going out On the old apostolic plan,
without purse or scrip; the knowledge
the missionary himself obtains, and
testing the people of the world whether
they viii or not give succOr to those who
offer to them the truths of God. The
experience is invaluable to the young
and all men in the church. We are
maliened and spoken evil of every
where; but the promise is that whose
ever will live Cody in Christ Jesus,
shall suffer persecution. Notwithstand-
ing this we are being raised in the val
lies of Utah that Will yet astonish the
world. a union of sentiment, brother
hood of feeling is being fostere@ strife
and litigation is being abOlis :, and
our present progress is to be marvellous.
Thire is no other community upon the
earth that presents such characteristics.
The education being obtained by our
elders in travelling abroad, shows them
the necessity, and gives them a deter
mination to do all they possibly can to
forward the redemption of mankind.
The constant return OF such men with
these desires and inclinations, strength
ems the entire priesthood in their labors
for good Strangers coming among US
and visiting our settlements find as
result, people so markedly in contrast
with what they had supposed to be the
condition of society among the Nor
mons, that the truth is the more wildly
impressed upon them. 1t takes hard
labor and a long while to live down
prejudice and slandel, but the truth will
eventually triumph. The time will
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