The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-08-31
EXPECTATIONS
To the Saints to Labor for
Promised Blessings.
LAST SUNDAYS DIsCOURSEs
Professor TaImaEe and Elder Geddes
Address the Congregation Assem-
bled in the Tabernacle.

On Sunday afternoon last, the religi-
GUS services at the Tabernacle were
begun by The choir singing the hymn
Harkl listen TO the trumpe,ersl
They sound for volunteers;
On lions bright and fiowery mount
Behold the officers
Prayer by Elder Abraham n. Cannon.
Singing Of the hymn:
Softly beams the sacred dawning
of the great Mi.lennial morn,
And to Saints gives we come warning
That the day is hast ming on.
PROFESSOR TALxAGE, in rising, said
he relied on the faith and prayers Of his
hearers He desired only to speak OF
those things which woald be Of interest
70 all. he did not know what motives
had prompted the coming together Of
the Saints; If they met with an inten-
ton of being instructed in the plan of
salvation, he believed they would be
blessed. The Lord has often entered
into covenants with His people on the
the earth, and il had yet TO be recorded
that He had not fulfilled his portion o.
the contract. Christ's parable of the
vineyard was related by the speaker,
and the Savior's contract and bargain
ing with His laborers TO work therein
for a penny; the four classes Of work
men, who were hired at different hours
Of the day. one in the morning. another
IN the afternoon, still another in the
evening, and the last late. The wages
agreed upon by each ella s were alike,
and were paid according 10 agreement
made with each before going to work.
Elder Talmage hoped that all the Saints
would receive their wages as they had
agreed upon and earned; also that they
would perform all the duties required OF
them. Many, probably thought they
were working for more wages than they
were receiving There was one princi-
ple-that of lithing-which. If observed
strictly, would earn for its observers
blessings such as they should be unable
to receive There were many who but
partially observed this principle; others
who neglected it entirely. The man
who paid tithing in order TO gain pres
tige among his fellows would be remem-
bered in the Judgment Day and receive
his dues accordingly. The Saints who
upon them, would realize the blessings
promised by the Almighty. The mo
tiYes which prompted the gathering OF
the people together in the valleys of
the mountains were different, and
whether sincere or insincere, the Lord
would discriminate and pay them their
wages according to their truthfulness.
Elder Talmage referred to the apparent
neglect of many who were too busily
ccupied-especially the young men
with temporal affairs, to the neglect Of
spiritual matters. He next referred to
Jesus parable of the talents, and used
its application to the constant snd con-
tinual labor OF those in the church in !
forwarding the work OF salvation. 1t /
was impossible for individuals to remain |
at a standstill; they must either pro- /
gress or retrograoe. The Saints be.
iieve all things; that is there was moth /
ing that was good that the Saints did /
not appropriate and cleave after. In |
of such principles as
those. let no Latter-day Saint say to
himself that there Is nothing for him to
do. The Lord had promised not TO
punish the innocent with the guilty. aud
in reference to this he cited the inter
view between the Lord and Abraham
and the latter's intercession in behalf of
the cities of the plains-Sodom and
The few righteous in the
cities OF civilization, to-day, must neces-
sarily be gotten out before the angel is
sent on his mission OF destruction. The
and wisdom of the
in His dealings with the
children of Israel were manifested
in al their movements and wan
derings. God was Jealous of
holiness. The command u observe the
Sabbath day was strictly observed BY
the children OF Israel. The Sabbath OF
the present was similar To other week
DAYS, vet it had been designated as a
holy day. ANY thing or place accepted
by the Almighty was considered holy.
These remarks, the speaker said, were
not perhaps strictly in the line OF ad-
dresses made by the eldero generally.
He exhortrd his hearers 70 be up and
doing. to live closer TO God The man
who lived according TO revelation would
ever be on the right path. The church
IS made up OF individual members, and
Il each member saw that he was
.n the correct line OF duty, there
r eed. be no fear entertained for
The church. There we. wonderings
and fears for the future. There need
be none, he said, il the Latser-day
SAINTS lived their religion. The out
siders were Ielping insults upon the
heads of the people, but the Lord would
mete out vengeance upon their heads
IN His own due time. The spirit of
retaliation was deprecated by the
speaker. II all our debts we're paid, he
asked, what wonld remain 10 our
,redit2 II bitten by dog don't turn
around and bite the dog. Bear up and
ihide in the Lord, was his counsel to
the Latter-day Saints.
EIDER A. ). GEIDKs arose with diff
ience to speak. He had listened with
DIeasu to the remarks If Elder Tai
mage. The Saints we're peculiar
people; they had been gath
sred together from the various
nations at different periods,
where they ha6T e .nged to different
ions OF religions, and had Z
realized that the:divines OF those sects
preached for hire. were not sincere in
heir devotions and their words had no
weight. The people now called Nor
mons, had, in their experience IN the
world, found that the principles Of sal
"a ffon taught hy JestfS Christ were not