The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-11-19

ing:
o God, the eternal Father,
Who dwells amid the skies,
In Jesus name we ask thee,
To bless and sanetihy,
IfsWe are pure before thee,
This bread and Gun Of wine,
That we may all remember
The offering so divine.
BISHOP w. B. PRESTON in arising t.
speak few words desired the faith and
prayers of the Latter-day Saints. He
said the Saints were a peculiar people
and so were the people of God in every
age of which there is any record; they
had always been prosecuted by those
with whom they were surrounded, and
simply because they believed in God and
His Son, Jesus Christ; because they had
done what they-were counseled to do by
their. leaders. In these: respects the
Latter-day.. Saints were like the former
day Saints = peculiar people; they
were seeking to know the mind and
will of God and aiming to do it, they
did not. always do so, but were trying
to perform Gods will, fulfil the duties
they owe to Him and to each other and
observe the covenants they had made
They are not perfect people; had not
yet learned the laws of life; did not love
their neighbors as themselves, nor their
enemies; did not do as they would be
done by; did not observe the Sabbath
day and keep it holy, according to the
Jaw of the Lord; did not thoroughly
understand the celestial laws of God.
'ut were studying it little at a time.
It took the people in the days of Enoch.
-hree hundred years to accomplish their
work. he Saints had been gathered
rom the nations of the earth to learn
20 improve themselves in the principles
OF the gospel; they were not yet per
feet by any means; while they profess
many things, there is a great work for
! them to do; they had separate tastes.
ceilings and nationalities, but had one
faith, one baptism and one hope. No
other people had made so much progress
as had the Latter-day Saints; their adj
a &c could be witnessed in travelling
through the Territory, especially among
/ he working classes. While this pro
| gTess had been made, a marvellous work
/ and wonder accomplished, yet they
mad but just commenced the great refor-
nation, of bringing the world to repent
/ ance, ofimproYing their knowledge con-
/ corning the gospel of the Son of God
and not in these labors alone, but also
in the manner of transacting business
one with another. They had great
and mighty work to perform; they were
4 NQf the alanhn hGF and had
their A b C's but imperfectly. 1t be-
hooved all, he said, to observe the
teachings of the elders; to learn to
know the duties of the priesthood; to
minister to the necessities of the poor
and afflicted; tounderstand the respOn-
| Sibilities and duties resting upon them
to seek after Gods spirit 10 guide them
! in wisdom and in the intelligent rearing
OF the young; to know how to conduct
! Sabbath schools, improvement assOcia-
lions, and 30 train the rising generation
| in the paths of righteousness; to teach
! them to farm and produce the neceS-
! SarieS of life; TO manufacture what they
use for comfort and convenience
| thereby avoiding dependence upon the
! outside world for them. God should be
relied on for help in these matters, and
to Him should be rendered all honor and
glory. The Lord would bless all who
engaged in methods looking toward
self-sustenance with His sanction an0
approval. Wisdom was necessary, and
shat could be obtained for the asking.
He had visited among the Sunday
schools, and was pleased in beholding
the rising generation being taught
TO know God, and His Son, Jesus
Christ, and the Scriptures according to
fha riOhfaOnSnocc nf TosI1c lFlri-4 Thora
were large numbers of such schools
throughout the Territory, and there
was no better work than in training
| the rising generation in the paths oil life
and salvation. He advised all to send
! their children to Sunday school and 10
| The Primary associations; the time de-
voted thereto was well spent. While
engaged in the secular pursuits of the
| week Saints should not neglect the Sab
! bath schools. These were some of the
great and important labors which the
Latter-day Saints should engage in. In
the spring seeds were planted and the
planter looked for good crops; so, also,
in the springtime of life seeds of life and
salvation should be planted. "Train up
a child in the way he should go, and he
viii not depart from 1t. The Lord
would bless the saints in spiritual and
temporal things, anG they would grow in
the eal tn, 50 long as they lived righteous
and upright lives.
PBEs1DENr c. w. PEERosE SAID the
remarks of Bishop Preston were OF a
practical nature; the religion of God
was practical religion: God was real
and practical being; He was a business
God. God was not known as He should
be by the world; they considered Him
incomprehensibie their ideas of Him
were vague; they did not understand
Him, and when one does not under
| stand anything himself, it is difficult
for him to convey any knowledge TO an
other. He did not think anyone fully
and completely unders .ood God. God
was referred to as spirit by
many, because in the Scriptures it was
written, God is a spirit. Peo le
generally believed spirit was intang-
ible, not material, an immaterial sub
stance; this was for want OF better
knowledge. Human wisdom could not
fni Cd; N a mortal. finite state, nan
kind couid not comprehend and grasp
| Him ss He is, but they could measure
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