The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-03-31
AT THE TABERNACLE.
Services There on Sabbath
Afternoon Last.
BISHOP WHITNEY'S ADDRESS
The Duty of the Latter-day Saints-l
Reference to the Prayer by the
Chaplain OF the House.

The Duty OF the Latter-0ay Sa1nts-A
Reference to the Prayer by the
Chaplain OF the House.
Sunday afternoons services in the
Tabernacle were commenced with the
choir singing the hymn:
All hail the glorious day,
By prophets long foretold.
Elder Edward Snelgrove offered the
opening prayer and the choir sang
another hymn:
Jesusl the giver
OF all we enjoy.
The Sacrament was administered by
the Bishopric of the Sixteenth Ward.
BISHOP ORsoN F. WHITNEY addressed
the congregation and said: 1t is very
necessary that the nearer as well as the
speaker be in possession of the spirit OF
God, In order that we may be benefited
by what is said. We meet to partake OF
the Sacrament, that we may renew our
covenants before God, to observe His
laws and do his will. The Lord has
told US that if we would prove unto Him
that we love Him. we must do
it by loving our fellow creatures.
We have been chosen as the van
guard OF a great reformation which
He is directing. The Lord is interested
in the salvation of all men, and the Cos
pei is the plan whereby they can be
saved. Straight and narrow is the way,
and consequently few there be that find
it; but broad is the road that leadeth to
destruction and many go IN thereat.
There never was a time when the Saints
needed more than at the present to live
as eXamplars of the love OF our Savior ;
they are required to be as beacon set
upon hill.
To God our HEAVIER y Father is
due all the intelligence which has
been manifested by the human race
in all ages. In these days it has
pleased Him to raiseup great and
mighty prophet, to be a channel
OF communication between Him
and man. This is the dispensation
of the fitness of time; when all things
shalt be gathered together, and HIS
work accomplished. This age is as the
ocean, into which all the rivers of past
times will run. The gospel has been
restored again, for the last time, never
more to be taken away. The world
have naturally made the mistake of
Mormonism" as
medley of the religious ideas, cere-
monies, and rites of the various
creeds of the world. The explanation of
religions have retained portions only Of
the true gospel, having departed from
the true faith. "Mormonlsm" is the
original religion, the ocean of truth.
while the various and numerous other
religions are but the streams -Rnd rivu-
let's, more or less roily, arising from and
flowing into it. "Mormonism so
called, in other words, the gospel OF
Christ, comprises all truth; and recogEi-
yes that which is true no matter by
whom or where it is advocated. We
have the whole truth, the perfect gospel
plan, taught by Gods divinely appointed
servants. We hold that this gospel plan
has been established on the earth many
times-ln the days of Adam, Enoch;
Noah, Moses, and others besides our
Savior Jesus Christ-and preached as
a message of warning and salvation to
the children of men, but rejected by the
great mass of mankind. The gospel has
always conficted with the ideas of the
generation in which it was presented.
Men have hated and despised the gospel
in all ages, because it seeks to control
their desires, passions, and appetites; it
seeks to redeem them and cause them to
acknowledge the divine right of God to
rule over all the earth. All religions
have within them some resemblance to
the gospel of Jesus Christ. The creeds
of modern Christianity nave MANY
similarities to the religions of the
Pagans, because in apostatizing from
the truth in different ages, both Chris
tians and Pagans have retained some
forms and ideas of the true faith:
broken off fragments of the truth, per
Yerted and mixed with mems ideas and
1t is the fulness of the Cos
pei that has been resto ed in our day.
John the Baptist came forth from
the wilderness preaching and baptising,
and Jesus Christ applied unto John for
baptism, the greater recognizing the
lesser, illustrating the principle that we
must humble ourselves beneath all
things in order to rise above all things.
Jesus Christ did not array himself
against the authority of the prophet
Ohm, but set the world an example of
OUcuH6lCt 10 ulVl0e au-
thority, pattern for all to follow.
Jesus ordained and set apart twelve
apostles to go forth and preach the
restored gospel, in all its purity and
fulness. 1t was tie same gospel as
preached to Adam, Enoch, Abraham.
Noah and Moses. 1t taught them TO
obey all things whatsoever God had
commanded. 1t taught men to be kind
and charitable to each other. The Savior
said he did not COME to DESTROY, but to |
fulfil the words of Moses and the ancient !
prophets. He did not command men 10 |
have only one wife, as some suppose,
The Christian world to-day pray to the I
Sod OF Abraham and Jacob, the patri- /
archs, who had plurality of wives, and /
through whose lineage was born among /
men, the Savior, our Lord Jesus Christ I
The Christian world by defamlng the /
principle of patriarchal or plural mar.
iage demonstrate that they have apos
5azied from the fulness of the gospel one
Of the principles of which is this ancient /
orm OF marriage. In their ienorI
lnce they deny that which God
las commanded and declared 70
De acceptable to Him. Far better that we
'hould suffer the condemnation and
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