The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-06-08

We are weak. Dut thou art able;
Hold rs with thy powerful hand.
Holy Spirit.
Keep Us III the Savior comes.
Prayer by Bishop Watson.
The choir sang:
o Lord Of Hosts. we now invoke
Thy spirit most divine,
| To cleanse our hearts while We partake
The broken bread and wine.
BISHOP o. f. WHITNEY felt as # the
Lord had chosen a weak instrument in
MIN 10 address the congregation. yet he
relied on inspiration from on high. and
knew that, possessed of that, one might
speak to the edihcation of his hearers.
He was led by the Spirit to read a por.
ton of a revelation given through
Joseph Smith for the guidance of the
Saints of latter-days. (The speaker
here read from the revelation con-
tanned in Section 50. verses II to IS,
Doctrine and Covenants.
THIS Is the view enunciated by the
Prophet Joseph Smith in relation 20
the creations of the Almighty and His
dealings with his creatures on the
earth. Ii has often been charged to
the Latter day Saints that they are ex
elusive; that they preach salvation for
themselves alone and shut all others
out; the words contained in what he
had read were a sufficient refutation of
this. 1t is true the Latter-day Saints
do not believe in a system of salvation
which rewards the murderer. the thief.
the cut-lhroat, the oppressor OF
mankind, with the same degree
of glory as those who fiji up their
lives with usefulness and good
to their fellow-creatures. They
believe, as the ancient Apostles be-
lieved, that all men, of all degrees, liv-
ing and dead, great and small, will ap-
pear before the great bar of God at the
Judgment Day, and no man will receive
more than his acts in the flesh will
Justify. No people on the earth can
claim a monopoly of the care of God.
The Indian, the infidel, the heather,
and the Christian all have the oversight
of their heavenly Father.
They who inhabit the stars in the
blue dome of heaven are also the chill
dren of God. They are all governed by
the same principles of truth as will gov
ern this globe when ceiestialIzed. Truth
will cleave TO truth intelligence to in
telligence, like to like. The earth, we
are told, obeys the laws which were
given unto it, therefore it shall be sane
tilted through Its obedience.
Mother Earth started out some 5000
years ago TO fulfil a certain mission.
She was required to labor six days and
rest on the seventh, a law which all
men should likewise zealously observe.
The earth was given 6 900 years or six
days-for l 900 years w8s a day with
the Lord-in which to labor. The
earth reyolyes once in twenty-four
hours, consequently twenty-four hours
constitute a day with man. The planets
all have their days and divisions of
time, but as they differ in magnitude, so
do their times and seasons differ. 1t was
revealed 10 Joseph Smith, that there
was a great planet (Kolob) which gov
erns all the rest, which revolves once in
a 1 600 years. The prediction that
Adam should die in the day that he
partook of the forbidden fruit. must
have beer reckoned according to the day
Of Kolob, as he lived $50 years. The day
10 was one of the Lords days.
According to the chronology of the
world, imperfect though 1t be. we are
closing the two-thousandth year since
the coming of the Savior and the six
year since the creation. con
we are in the Saturday night,
as II were, of the week which the earth
was given TO labor. The Sab
bath or millennium of rest is
about to dawn. To prepare the
world for this event the everlasting
gospel has been restored to the earth
and is being preached by the Latter
day Saints to mankind. This is the
of the fulDess of times,
when all things in Christ Jesus shall be
gathered in one.
The prophets of old spoke of the time
when there should be reign of unive<-
sal peace; when men should beat their
swords into plowshares, and go to war
no more; when the lion would eat straw
like the OK and the lamb and the lion
would lie down together. That is the
glorious Sabbath, when the earth
will rest from its labors. The
meek and lowly of the earth viii
inherit it, and they who are
naughty and oppressive will be brought
low and overthrow. Satan is to be let
loose for brief period, after the mil
lennium, but viii finally be conquered
and be cast down to hell, prior to the
of the earth, when it will be
resurrected and glorifed and
shine as sea OF glass mingled with fire.
1t Is the struggle of the Latter-day
Saints TO introduce the laws necessary
to redeem and purify the earth, and
one OF these laws is now made the pre-
text for their persecution He alluded
70 the law of celestial marriage.
Though frowned down by the rest of
mankind, the Saints can rejoice that the
of the celestial planets
are their friends and smile down
upon them. The Saints are really in
the overwhelming majority, for the
hosts OF heaven and God are with them.
Yet they are being bounded. impri-
soned and prosecuted here for believing
in this holy principle, the marriage law
Of the celestial worlds. The people OF
the world say our system is an ulcer
upon the body polite, and that we burn
incense upon the altar OF lust. They
claim that polygamy is no part of the
religion of this people. as though they
have any right TO decide that point.
They deny the Saints the right 70 wor-
ship God as their consciences dictate.
other sects are granted that privilege.
The laws of Gods kingdom, which is to
be established viii be more liberal than
that, good viii De returned for evil, aud
3l men granted their rights.
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