The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-10-11

Oh Is Drawn 10 the Twelve Peariy gates ,
/ he will find engraven thereon the names
OF the twelve sons of Jacob by his four
wives. and their great grandfather
! Abraham will be within that city.
I Without its walls shall be sorcerers,
adulterers, liars and whoremongers,
and those who love to make lie. Jesus
! bore testimony TO the virtues of Abra-
/ ham. He proclaimed himself to be a
/ literal descendant from him. tracing
/ back his lineage to the loins OF David,
/ another poIygamist; and when he,
! Jesus, spoke of Lazarus, who picked up
/ the crumbs that fell from the rich
mas table. who was so poor and
| wretched. who had sores all over his
! body, which the dogs came and licked TO
/ his ease, delight and comfOrt--When
! Jesus spoke of this Lazarus, he spoke OF
/ him as being in the bosom OF Father
! Abraham. But che rich man, who per-
/ haps had had control OF him, and who
/ had kicked and cuffed him, and looked
upon him with scorn as he picked up
/ the crumbs-as we pick up the crumbs
| of liberty as they fall from the table
! which our fathers have built saw
when that rich man looked upon Lag
arus in his degradation, he was then
| but his serf and slave; but when he
! looked upon hum over that vide gull
| that separated them, he saw him IN the
| bosom of Abraham, and he pleaded that
| Lazarus might be sent TO dip his finger
INTO one drop of cold water. that
the thirst might be slaked in
his throat, and that his burn
ing tongue might be relieved.
The answer was, Lazarus had his Ill
things while upon the earth and than
hadst thy good things" Now, behold
Lazarus has the good things and thou
hast thine says evil things: well, the
rich man, then, if he comes not to me
send him to tell my friends and my
neighbors of the condition OF affairs
here" The answer was made, They
have Moses and the prophets and If they
held not these, neither would they
listen to one though he rose from the
dead. If the Judge of the Supreme
Court.Of the Territory is a Christian,
how shall he feel when he comes into
the presence of Father Almighty,
whom he has sought to cast reflections
upon? viii not the blush of shame be
upon his cheek. and if there is such d
thing as an eternal God, and if that
eternal God is the creation of the
heavens and the earth and all four
spirits, if / say, that God is the friend
of Abraham how can that Judge hear
his presence? And if he cannot bear
his presence l would rather be the
poorest Latter-Day Saint on earth and
bear chains and letters upon my limbs,
until my flesh dropped from my bones
tina n TO be in the attitude of the man
who must bear, without the spirit of
God, the measure which he has
measured to others. For this reason.
my brethren and sisters, l say have
the most profound sympathy for all
those whom we sometimes denominate
our enemies, and l am notable to forget
the fact that whatever their condition
in this life may be. they fought not on
the side of Satan in the eternal worlds
when Satan rebelled against God be-
cause the Almighty was unwilling
to adopt his coercive plan of human re-
demption. because God was determined
that every man, woman and child that
should be born into the world should
be Tree. l say because God and the
council of heaven would not adopt his
cOercIve measures, he rebelled against
Christ, and one third part of heaven
f IllOwed him, and he fought against
Michael and the hosts of heaven and
was cast down to earth where he is now.
But you can find no living man or wO-
man that ever breathed the breath of
life that fought with him, for his con-
3emnation was that he should never
have body. Therefore, those people
who seem to be our enemies are such
only by reason OF their blindness, by
reason OF their eyes being closed against
the things of God, and if the judgments
of God are to come upon them accord
ing TO the predictions of the prophets,
we well can afford 10 have charity and
sympathy for them. tell you that.
can pray for my enemies; I can pray
that God may lead them away from
darkness. that He may touch the eyes
OF their understanding that they may
see, and their hearts that they may re-
pent.
1t is awful 70 think for moment of
the terrible condemnation Of the men
that give their hearts TO the endorse
and it is the thing TO which we must
at last come, 10 love our enemies and
pray for them who despitefully use us.
And when we are prepared TO do
this, from the heart, we are prepared
to say 10 this world, l am not
afraid OF anything that You can
do. The power OF the Spirit lifts the
body out of the reach of harm. the
spirit of Christ has gained the victory,
and we Will say when under the intiu
ence of that spirit, 20 death, where IS
thy sting? o grave. where Is thy VIC
tory?" l can pray for the President OF
the United States, with desire in my
heart TO God that he will direct him
Alright, that he may have moral courage
enough TO do that which is just; because,
unless the rulers of this nation are actu-
ated by the spirit OF justice ,lthey can
not be sustained By the Almighty. And
we may find prejudices on the
right hand and on the left, we Shall I!
never have given unto US the victory |
until we shall learn how to govern upon |
principle. When men are tested and |
tried, when they are brought before the |
courts OF judgment, there should be no |
Whenever the Latter-d"v /
Saints shall have reached that high u,-
gree OF excellence in the administration +
OF the laws of God as to judge in'HNr
tally between the Saint and the sinner,
when they would be willing 10 give !
Satan his rights as quickly as SAINT or +
q brother, then will the judgment and |
the rule be placed within their reach, /
and pray within my heart that it Will /
never come before that time.
Whether man is a heather or 2 |
Christian, when the kingdom of God is |
he will have his rights and |
extended to him. There will be |
no bias, no prejudice, every thing will |