The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-06-10
SUNDAY SERVICES.

| OuuOay aiLerQOou WERE Op0ueU
by the choir singing the hymn com
mencing:
o ny Father, thou that dwellesi
!, In the high and glorious place!
When shall I regain thy presence,
And again behold thy face?
In thy hoy hsbitation,
Did my spirit once reside?
In my i=st primeval childhood,
I Was nurtured by thy side?
| Prayer. Singing of the hymn:
| o God, the E!ernsl Father,
Who dwells amid the akyi
In Jesus name We AK thee
To bless and ssnctify,
II we sre pure before thee,
This bread and cup of wine,
That we may all remember
That off'ring so divine.
ELDER G. w. PENRosE addressed
the congregation. On rising he said
he hoped that he would have the
attention, faith and prayers Of his
hearers, 50 that what he m ght
speak to them would prove benef>
c1al. He said the elders of the
church always relied upon God for
inspiration, and never prepared
themselves or studied up what they
should preach; but they were in
structed to read the best books, to
cultivate good ideas and knowledge
Of all kinds. The speaker read the
Goth verse of the xix chapter of
John, "When Jesus therefore had
received the vinegar, he said, 1t
is finished and he bowed his head,
and gave up the ghost" The world
said that this referred to the work
Of Christ, but he held that 1t only
! had reference to his life on the
earth. The Lstter.day Saints be-
lieved in the Lord Jesus Christ, and
also had faith that he was still
laboring for the good of his
chosen people. The observance
of breaking bread and drinking
water in commemoration of the
body and blood Of the Savior was
one which was held to be one Of
the features OF the Saints faith;
while they believed in tbs atone
ment OF j esus, in his doing for them
what they could not do for them
selves, they also believed in keep
ing the law and the command
ments, and in working with faith.
From tine text the idea had gone
forth that the work Of salvation had
been finished, and that all that PEG.
pie had to do was to look to Jesus
to be saved. This he regarded as a
mistake, and would show from the
Scriptures that Christ did not finish
his work for the salvation of MAN.
kind when he bowed his head and
gave up the ghost. He IL en- recited
the circumstance Of Mary seeing
Jesus in the garden, and bis saying |
to her, "TOuch me not, for am not |
assembled to my father, but 60 to my |
brethren and say unto them: / as
cend unto my father and your |
father, and TO my God and your
God" and asked where the Savior |
had been during the time between |
then and when he was buried; his |
holy was in the sepulchre, but |
where was the real Jesus? He here |
quoted from the Sd chapter Of the |
1st Peter, 18th to the Goth verse, to |
show that "Christ hath once suf-
fered for sins, the just for the un-
just, that he might bring us to God,
being put to death In the flesh, but /
quickened by the spirit; by which
also he went and preached unto the
spirits in prison; which were some
times disobedient, when once the
long suffering of God waited 10 the
days OF Noah, while the ark was I
a.preparing, wherein few, that is,
eight souls, " ere saved by wafer"
This was a Few doctrine to the
world at large, but was old to the
ancient saints and to the Lstter-dsy
Saints, who believed that those who
have died without a knowledge of
the gospel would yet have chance
10 hear it in the hereafter. Those
who were preached to by Noah for |
12o years rejected his message and
were punished by the flood and sent
TO the prison house, and to those
spirits Jesus went to preach
salvation and redemption. This
was one evidence that his work was
lot finished. In the 9th verse of
he 4th chapter of the same book it is
S recorded, 'For this cause was the
gospel preached also to them that
ire dead, that they might be judged
according to men in the flesh, but
i've according to God in the spirit"
Cider Penrose than gave brief ac-
count Of The labors of Jesus III the
Holy Land, where, he said, he de.
'oted most Of his time, establishing
lis church; but he ordained and
ent out his disciples into the world.
All the generations of the world ha
% be preached to in the spirit world.
lie referred to the preaching of the
gospel on this continent; of the
Existence Of a p1orle on the Yves.
ern hemisphere, whom Christ had
eterence to when he SAID s'other
heep 1 have, who shall hear my +
voice." etc. The doctrine of "peace
IN earth and good will tn all men"
& as to be disseminated all over LIE
world, and the continent of
America was included. He then
aid the Saints had a book called
he Book of Mormon, 80 styled be-
,ause the records in it were COM
,iled by an individual named Nor
NON which has haan translated Inv