The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-08-26
SUNDAY SERVICES.
Elder Arthur StaYner and APOSTLE
John W. Taylor Discourses0n
Practical Religion.

The usual afternoon services were
held in the Tabernacle on Sunday. com
mencing with the choir singing the
hymn:
Sweetly may the blessedspirit,
on each faithful bosam shine,
May we every grace inbe-it,
Lore, we seek boon dlYlne-
Elder William B. Barton offered the
opening prayer.
The choir sang another hymn:
Ye children of our God,
Ye Saints OF latter days.
Surround the table of the Lord
And join TO sing His praise.
The priesthood of the Sixth Ward at
tended to the administration of the
Sacrament.
ELDER ARTHUR J. STAYNBR addressed
the congregation and said: Ne are
practical people, the main and principal
part of our lives is in doing, in prac-
tically carving the gospel to the nations
of the earth. This is the business of
the Latter-day Saints, The people
gathered together in Utah to-day are
part of the results of these labors. We
are here to practically carry out the
will and purposes of God. Our en-
deavors to be thus practical has brought
on us the opposition of the world. The
principle of plural marriage is supposed
by the world, to be simply an oppor-
tunity for lust. We know to the con-
trary. for the practical living to that
principle requires continued practice
otherwise the results would be very
disastrous to us socially We have
gained the financial confidence of the
world, in our business relations, but are
credited with being so immoral that our
good Christian neighbors cannot endure
it. My experience on a recent trip to
New York, experienced condition of
morality in that and other large cities
that was painfully IN contrast with the
purity of intent and purpose of the
Latter-day Saints. Everywhere l could
realize the prevailing disposition by the
male sex, to encroaeh upon the virtue
of the women; and l was forcibly re-
minded of the saying of Jesus Christ:
LET him that is without SIN cast the
firststone. However, these reflections
are not pleasant. and [ have no desire
to harrow I'D feelings on so unpleasant
a SUBJECT. All men are responsible for
their own actions before God, and to
Him we must leave the adjustment OF
these things. The Latter-day Saints
have numerous duties deyolying upon
them in carrying out the practical mis-
sion that God has entrusted to Us. The
assistance OF God will alone enable US 10
meet with all the difficulties of life with
equanimity and enable us to live the
Golden Rule of doing unto Others as we
would wish them. to do unto US. We
must possess continued charity so as TO
love our neighbors as ourselves. We
cannot expect to obtain blessings only
as the results of our own labors. The
Lord does not dispense gifts unto men
lavishly and without their efforts. he
requires man to labor and convert tie
Clements into articles OF sustenance.
The conditions are bCuntifClly supplied,
and We are required 10 take advantage
Of lem AID sustain ourselves. The
iabors of the husb3nGlnGn, and the i'm
pTovement: made in the numerous
towns and cities of Utah. evidence the
God have been upon these vallys and
the people have wisely obtained benefit
from them. The productions of our
home manufactures are gradually in
creasing. God has said let the beauty
of your raiment lie the workmanship Of
your own hands. Our religion is practi-
cal because we worship practical God.
The so-called Christian world are actual
ly idolaters, for they profess to worship
a God that has neither body, parts or
passions. We claim that God is a being
capable Of revealing His mind and will
unto men. And this is in accordance
with the teachings of the Bible. The
gospel has been revealed unto US
through Joseph ;Smith-in all its purity
and fullneSs The truth cannot be over
come. but will prevail. We are serving
just and allwise God, who will fulfill
all His pl omises and deal in mercy with
all the htman race. He will reward all
according TO their works. The punish
uent OF hell will be tie n>ciousness
hat Others are enjoy ing blessings we
mighI have enjoyed had We been fai' h.
!ul. The God We wors hip is one of love
and mercy and will reward Us accord
inely. il we fail TO keep OR covenants.
aud carry out HIS commandments. If
we are foithful His blessings shall have
no end. 1t is this knowledge which actu
a,es us and enables US 10 endure every
i'll thatIs brought upon rs. We may be
uerluec and Imprisoned, but it cannot
nor will not alter the truth as revealed
to US.
APOSTLE JOHN W. TAYLOR said he had
been requested to speak briefly. He
had listened with pleasure TO the re-
marks of Elder Stayner. Religious
matters should certainly be judged by
practical rules, lust as business and
political matters are adjusted. We
cannot entertain any principle OF re-
ligion that is not taught and advocated
in the Bible We ask the world 10 Judge
MS righteously, and if they desire 10 OBJ
tain Inform .ti0n concerning our doc
trines to ask US and not our enemies.
Ii the doctrines We believe in are not, OF
God. they will come to naught. The
Savior advised in His day-when ap-
pealed to-: Leave them alone. for II
thew be blind, leaders of the blind, hey
will all fa,l into the ditch. " Ire
world are anxious to oppose us because
we live according to the laws as prac-
tieed by Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
VINO were blessed by God in living III
-,,I,ral :, r-;acc. We know IL to be a
nrinciple Of purity, for Jesus Christ
Hims5If was born into this world
through that divine law. The principles
we believe in were not Instituted by
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