The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-07-01
TABERNACLE SERVICES.
Remarks by Elder c. r. Savage
and APOSTLE Grant. Il

Sunday afternoons services at the
Tabernacle commenced with the choir
singing the hymn:
Lord, we come before Thee now,
AtThy feet we humblyl bow.
Prayer by Elder Edward Stevenson.
The eheir sang another hymR-
ehere approach Thy table, Lord,
At Thyseommand through chosen men.
The priesthood OF the Nineteenth
Ward attended to the administering of.
the sacrament.
ELDER CHARLES r. SAVAGE said It was
quite unexpected that he was called to
address the congregation for a short
time. When ne yiewedthe Tabernacle,
this city and the numerous towns and
settlements throughout Utah, his mind
reverted to our deceased leader. Brig
ham Young. who was at once the archi-
tect and pioneer under divine assistance
of the blessings we now enjoy. No
people on this world are SO abundantly
blessed to-day as are the L2tter-day
Saints. This is very greatly the result
of the industry and temperance of the
Mormons, whose faith does not permit
or encourage anything to the contrary.
Utah to-day is comprised of people
who are contented in endeavoring to
LIVE the laws of God With them it is
no crime to honor God. They claim it
to be an inherent right to live lives of
sobriety and abstain from every wrong,
and TO worship God according to the
dictates of their own consciences. They
have the temerity to be at peace with
their neighbors, and honor every sacred
obligation to all men and women. The
rights. They have faith in God who
inspired the sayings and doings of men
as recorded in the Holy Bible. Their
crime is that they believe in the Bible
and accept ITS teachings literally; and
have obtained from God, the powers of
the priesthood, and are determined to
follow Him. The Latterday Saints are
mopolitan-converts from nearly
every natlonality--but all have realized
the blessings of tie gift of the Holy
Ghost. The reception of the truth has
opened unto them field of usefulness
and labor, which cannot end with death
that of being saYiors unto their fell
low men, and this is one of the greatest
gifts OF the gospel. The earnest adher-
ents of "MormonIsm" cannot be dis
mayed for they are engaged in the cause
of truth.
APOSTLE HEBER ]. GRANT said he had
listened with interest to the remarks
of Brother Savage. 1t seems strange
state of affairs, that in the Republic of
America, and in spite ofits constitution.
men should be ostracized on account of
their religion. Laws have been passed
to punish the "Mormons,'' in spite of
such being prohibited by the United
States Constitution. The lives of the
q Mormon" are a denial to the actions
of their enemies. If tree is to be
judged by its fruits, then are the Nor
standing reproof to those who
prosecute and proseci tie them. Christ
said: "If We keep my commandments, !
the world shall hate you;" and most as
suredly are the Saints hated by the I
world and accused of being corrupt |
The Latter-day Saints each and every |
one of them are in position to prove
to themselves the truth of that which
they believe in, and obtain testimony
that cannot be refuted. There is but
one course open to them, and that is to
continue to keep the commandments of
God, and He will reward them for so
doing. The great men of the world, in
the past, men of science, and noted
statesmen whose memories we now
honor and revere, were men who con- |
tinued true to their convictions and |
while they lived met with opposition |
and ridicule from those who should |
have been their friends. There is no
more nobler a work than to live faith |
fully to the gospel of Jesus Christ. The |
testimony that is being borne by those
who are imprisoned for living honestly |
to their convictions. is imperlshable. !
Each and every true Latter-day Saint is 1
in being honest and living |
ives of purity, by the knowledge they
have that God will sustain them in
every hour of trial.
Choir sang the anthem, How Beauti-
iul upon the Mountains.
Benedietion by Elder Elias Morris.