The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-04-14
AT THE TABERNACLE.
The Services There on Sunday At
ternOOn Last.

The services at the Tabernacle, on
Sunday afternoon, last were begun by
the singing of the hymn commencing:
Lord. we come before the now;
Atihy ieei we humbly bow.
Prayer by Elder George Goddard.
Continuing, the choir sang the hymn
beginning:
We here approach thy table, Lord
After the dispen,ingof the Sacrament
nv the priesthood of the Eighteenth
Ward,
ELDER JeHS B. MAIBES, from Manti,
arose to address the congregation, com
mencing by saying he knew not what he
should speak about, but would gladly
bear his testimony TO the truth of the
gospel as taught by the Latter day
Saints. He had been raised in the
Church OF England and continued a
member of that body until 1913, when
he first heard one of the elders of the
Mormon Church and soon after en-
braced the principles he then heard. Ii
had been his privilege for several years
10 travel through the Territory, had
come in contact with all classes of peo-
pie. associated with families and officers
vi the church, and his testimony was
that. almost universally, a spirit Of
honor, integrity and Righteousness pre-
vailed. He had received the blessings
promised those who obeyed the first
principles OF the gospel. and had never
wavered, nor had he ever yielded to the
power or temptations of the evil one TO
-. -, ~ Ea a
related some of his early experiences in
London, and his subsequent history in
the pioneer days OF Utah. The revela-
ton given through Joseph Smith, upon
celestial marriage, he declared had been
the salvation OF many; he had proved
its truthfulness and tested Its correct
ness. He briefly reviewed the course
taken by many of the Saints in follow
ing the examples of the ancient prophets
and pairiarchs. and the opposing spirit
manifested by the outside world, and
especially those in authority. who
declare that the ancient worthless lived
in days of barbarism. In mentioning
the condition of affairs at present pre-
vaili3g in the community, he alluded to
an address given by Joseph Smith to the
people of Nauvoo, previous to his retire
ment from public service among them,
and read a portion OF 1t. IL was
surprise to visitors here 10 behold the
fine structures and temples which had
been raised by the industrious inhabi-
tants; but when the causes and interest
of the erection OF these temples are con-
sldered the wonder ceases. In speaking
of temples, be took occasion TO state
that the one at Manti had been compile
ted. He had taken considerable interest
in the several edihces wherein to per-
form the ordinances of the gospel which
had been built in the Territory. He
had attended the general annual Confer
ence at Provo, and had missed but
three siuce joining the church. He was
Accordingly interested at the last Con-
ference in the spirit of union manifested
among those in attendance. The
epistle OF the first presidency contained
precisely the same spirit as that which
rested upon Joseph Smith at the time
of the address to the people of Nauvoo,
aOOre He gloried in being
an American citizen and beneved Ia -
speeding the laws of the land, realizing
that the law of the gospel did not
require those who embraced it to break
the laws of the land. Referring to the
condition of affairs, produced by the
enacted to oppress and perse-
cute the Latter-day SAINTS, notably the
Edmunds law and its Interpretation by
the local judiciary, he did not think il
should provoke bitter opposition by the
Mormon people. Peace and quiet
reigned throughout tht communities OF
the Territory, as a result of living up to
the principles of their religion. He was
firm in the belief and hope that the time
would come when every knee would bow
and every tongue confess that Jesus was
the Lord.
ELDER WILLIAM NJ. PALMER began a
brief discourse by relating his experience
while abroad as a missionary, and con-
trasted the spirit existing among the
people outside with that prevailing in
Utah, which latter spoke TO this effect:
Father forgive them, for they know
not what they do" The spirit of mob
ocracy which was rampant throughout
the United States, ana particularly the
in connection with the strike
Of the knights of Labor, was an out
growth of the debt to be paid by the
Lord for the mobbing of the elders in
days gone by. There was not a princi-
pie taught by the Latter-day Saints that
could not be substantiated by the Scrip
lures and by natural principles. and be-
cause they were the truth the Saints
were prosecuted. The experience of all
the elders VINO ndO Dee0 among the
nations, was that they were prosecuted,
reviled, spit upon, rotten-egged. and so
forth, and as a consequence the treat
ment accorded them was recoiling upon
the heads of their prosecutors, because
the Lord had said il should be so; He
had said, if they wanted mobs they
should have mobs to their hearts con-
tent. He referred to the building of
temples and the work to be done IN
them particularly that OF being baptized
for the dead, and at some length ex-
planned the principle as believed in and !
practised by the Mormon people, and |
branched off into q discourse upon the |
first principles of the Gospel-faith, |
repentance and baptism. The Savior |
had said none could enter into his /
presence unless the ordinances of the |
gospel had been observed, unless they i
had been born of the water and Of the |
Ipirit. What, then, he inquired, was
% become of the millions who had died 1
without observing this injunction Of the 4
Sav.or7 Elder Palmer referred his /
hearers to several passages of Scripture
to the principles of baptism
or the dead, preaching to the spirit's