The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-03-31
ATT THE TABERNACLE.
Services There on Sabbath
Afternoon Last.
BISHOP WHITNEY'S ADDRESS.
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
lie 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 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 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 a 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
shall 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, Tor the last time, never
more to be taken away. The world
have naturally made the mistake of
Mormonism" as a
medley of the religious ideas, ceIs-
monies, and rites OF the various
creeds of the world. The explanation of
this is that the various sectarian
religions have retained portions only Of
the true gospel, having departed from
the true faith. "Mormonlsm" is the
original religion, the ocean of truth.
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religions are but the streams and rivu-
lets, more or less roily, arising from and
flowing into it. "Mormonism so
called, in other words, the gospel OF
Christ, comprises all truth; and recogTs-
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 conhicted 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 have 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 |
traditions. 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 |
John, but set the world an example of !
and obedience to divine au- |
thority, a pattern for all to follow.
Jesus ordained and set apart twelve ,
apostles 20 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 10
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
Iulhl the words of Moses and the ancient
prophets. He did not command men 10
have only one wife, as some supnose
The Christian world to-day pray to the
God OF Abraham and Jacob, the patri-
arehs, who had plurality of wives, and
through whose lineage was born among +
men, the Savior, our Lord Jesus Christ
The Christian world by defamlng the
principle OF patriarchal or plural mar
Rage demonstrate that they have apos
'azied from the fulness of the gospel one
Of the principles of which is this ancient
orm OF marriage In their ignor.
lnce they deny that which God
has commanded and declared to
De acceptable to Him. Far better that We
should suffer the condemnation and
punishment of man. that fall into the i
lands of the living God" He will call
hem and us to a proper account for the
observance of or rebellion against His
The self Righteousness
II man causes him to strain at a pna+
md swallow a camel s,repuonS -