The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-03-28

VINO DelleV6S Win all his heart
that that is his God to which
he bows down? Reason justice,
mercy answer No." God will honor
HIM who sincerely bows down to WOOD
o" stone. and kn VS. no better than to
do so. What! is not this idoiatry ?
Idolatry cannot be said o exist in its
worst form IN the mind of a man who
! is sincere in worshipping the hiPhest
God of which h. can conceive If we
pretend to worship that in which we
have no faith, IN which we do not
believe, this is the worst form of
idolatry that can exist, for it is
| hypocrisy 1t is violating conscience, it
is doing that against which our better
nature revolts. No man ever felt
happy in being a hvpocrite. l can
not help but think that God
admires the sincerity of an honest
| heart, let it bear be ca b the bosom of
Christian or worshiI per ..of Budda;
nor c.n l believe that he is not su
premely diSgu ted with the hypocrisy
of Christian or a Latter-day Saint
who processes to be believer IN Jesus
| Christ as the Savior of the world. who
claims to be a follower of Him who
died that all men might live, who
claims to have a heart full of charity,
full of mercy. full of the love of God,
full of the love of his fe lowmen,
and yet will prove by LIS ac.s
that he is unworthy of his high profess
sion The Latter-dav Saint VINO says,
l believe in God, love him more
than all the things of the world, am
follower of Jesus of Nazareth" and
yet will bow down as worshipper OF
mammon, a lover of pleasure more
than lover OF God, l say without any
hesitation that the honest Hlndoo who
bows down with a heart full of fal' b
and since ity to his God of wood or
the God of heaven than such Latter
day SAINT. The Christian who hates
his felowman, who schemes for TIE de
struction or Isjury of any portion OF
mankind, and pre- ends at the same
time to be a follower of Him who loveu
all men, and died that ali might live.
| is far less acceptable to q than the
sincere and honest infidel or idolator.
| do not mean 10 place side by side
| the gospel IF Jesus Christ and the sys
| TENS of religion which man has made.
although / bsllege these man made
systems do possess some truth, some
| thing that is good and worthy, for by
this they live on and accomplish goou
results 10 the extent Of the virtue which
they possess. They may be imperfect
they may be mlXturrs of truth and
Ell or, but the truth therein contaiueu
viii cause that system to endure, and II
will q, tract to it some honest SOU who
will sec the diamond glitteriDg among
| the rubbish and are so al XlouS for the
| truth that t"ey will shut their eyes t.
| the dross which surrounds it. have this
much respect for human kind. l be-
! lieve that all men are influenced 60 SOM
extent by that Spirit which ligbteih
every man that cometh into the world.
1t is inn ossible for man TO have n
generous thought a noble impulse, and
the spirit OF God be utterly assent
! from his soul; for IL is that spirit
operating opon him that gives him thai
n0ole impulse, that spirit which is con
Jinually striving 10 liftu our fallen and
degraded nature, sarctiiy it and
creator. But when that spirit ceases to
strive with men, destruction alone
aw ats him.
Who doubts that men like Moses
| abraham. David and those spiritual
giants that stand out in history, send
II down through the ages the light OF
| their noble examples, were filed with a
power not their own, enabling them TO
| accomplish what they did? How coulo
we, if called upon at the pre- ent
moment, do the works they did if we
were not Influenced by the same splrll
| which moved upon them? WOuio
any man II this age OtfeI
his son as burnt offering
upon an altar at the command of Goo,
unless he had within him power anu
! fl it'll from God'to assist him in passing
t. rough such an ordealP Let Us ask
ourselves the question: Are there men
upon the earth to-day who would think
of doing such thing unless their faith
| God was supreme? Can man take
! the gIory for sucn works? No. God
has said that He will do His own
work, and no flesh shall glory IN His
presence. We may lud Abraham and
Moses; we may praise David for his
! Yalor; but if We t5ke tbs proper view
| of the subject, l think our praise Will
ascend higher than those men. What
could have induced Hebrew shepherd
boy, thought by his own father un
worthy of presentation to the p Ophet
who was sent to anOinC the future king
of Israel, to go forth braVely and meet
! the Philistine giant? He went in the
Ihlu6 anu Wy TIC pOnCl VI tHC
God of Israel. This is why David
accomplished that word, not III his own
strength nor in his own glory. but by
the power of the Holy Ore, that all the
| earth might know that there Was a GOD
in Israel. Men can accomplish great
things if God be with them. But it re-
quires living faith. 1t must be no
guess SOL it must be no maybe
God will help us, and NAV be
he won't No. David said: God
will give you into my hands" His was
faith that was lnvinciole. Nothing
could stand against him. SO it is tn
people. If God be with them, man
Can not prevail against them.
When the Savior, after His crGc;fic-
| ton. visited the Nephites on this con-
| tiueAt, He told them that He had come
| from Jerusalem where He WAS crucitied
and had la n down His life. Said He:
! 81 told my disciples at Jerusalem Of
you, but they did not understand me. L
told them l had other sheep which
were not of that fold. These also must
hear my voice AMI see me and there
shall be one fold and one shepherd. "
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