The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-05-08
SUNDAY SERVICES.
Bishop Whitney's Sermon at
the Tabernacle.
THE SPIRITUAL MISSION
OF Israel, and the Temporal Mission
of the Gentiles-Elder Stayner in
the Twentieth Ward.

the Tabernacle on Sunday afternoon
the choir and congre cation sang:
Sweet is the work, my God. my King,
To praise thy name, give thanks and sing
To show thy love by morning light
And talk Of all thy truths at night.
Prayer was offered by Elder William
B. Barton. The choir then sang:
Well sing all praise to Jesus name;
Honor and praise We give
To him who bled on Calvsry's ELL,
And died that we might live.
BISHOP WHITNEY
having been asked to address the con-
gregation said:
1t has fallen to nay lot by request o
the presidency of this meeting to ad
dress the congregation, and in orde.
that I may do so with profit, throw
myself upon the sustaining power O
your faith and prayers, my bretherr
and sisters, and upon the help of th'
Almighty; for no words that | of my
self can speak, will be OF any particular
benefit to you who are here assembled
It is the bread of life thai you want
not the dead utterances OF mans
lips; and one of the most importan!
duties deVolYing upon servant of God
is TO feed His sheep With the bread OF
life; in fact, so important a matter was
this considered by the Prophet Joseph
Smith, that he directed the elders not
to speak unto the people and use their
time unless they found themselves in
possession of the Holy Spirit. II peo
pie leave their homes and come up to
the house of the Lord On His day, it is
not that their ears may be tickled by
the tinkling phrases of mans elo-
quence, it is not that their time may be
wasted, and they be nored with tire
some harangues, for they could sit
down at home aud read the word OF
God, the reyeianons OF Jesus Christ
which are imbued with the spirit OF the
Lord, and thus obtain resreshment for
their souls. Were it not that they are
told to meet here and partake of the
Sacrament AMI renew their covenants
with the Lord, they might IS well stay
at home if they are not fed with the
bread of life. It's, therefore, an earnest
matter of prayer with me. that my ut
terances may be SO dictated that [
may not waste your time, but that the
Lord may sp3ak and that we all may
be edited.
These are days when tits needful thai
the Saints should practice and eyince
great humility. The humble man is he
who enjoys tire Spirit of the Lord, and
he who enjoy that spirit, is he who sees
his way marked out before him, The
proud man is apt to be deceived one
whose thoughts are filled with vanity,
whose heart is the home of selishness,
~ l. be nd al fnr
himself and not for the public good.
He does not see his way clearly before
him. He looks at things as they
seem. He is deceived by semblances-
by things which appear to the outward
eye. He sees not things as they rally
are, with the spiritual vision. He is
apt to be led into traps and snsres Con-
tinuslIy.
Victor Hugo, in describing the battle
of Waterloo, tells how the failure of the
great Napoleon resulted from one fatal
mistake made during the pic Sress of the
battle. He swept the field with his
glass, and thought he saw level and
unbroken plain before him, leading up
to the point where the English bat
talions were entrenched. He thought
it was one of the opportunities of his
life, and he gave tn word for his
cavalry to charge. Midway between
his position and that occupied by the
English, was a sunken road, which he
had overlooked, a chasm in the earth,
and in the twinkling of an eye, before
the danger could be foreseen that mag
nifcent body of horsemen arrived on
the brink of precipice; unable to
check themselves, over they went. horse
and rider, mingled together pell NELL.
Those following behind pushed those
before, until the gap was literally filed
with the dead and dying, and the rem
nant rode over on the bleeding bodies of
their companions. But their strength
was broken, and they hurled themselves
in vain against the stalwart legions of
infantry that awaited then. Thus, one
of the greatest mistakes Of Napoleon
was in acting upon that which appeared
to be, instead of that which was. We
NAV take this as an illustration of the
blindness of those who trust IN semb-
lances of things, instead of the solemn
lr5ality.
1t is natural propensity of human
nature, to look at things temporarily.
and not spir tually; to gaze with the
natural eye, and listen with the natural
ear, to apcrehend and form conclusions
which we think exact and true, by
means of our natural senses. And this
is perfectly proper in many instances.
If man places his hand upon a red
hot stove, he is panied as the result,
and he apprehends that danger by the
natural sen es; but if he re-
peats that act, after he has once
experienced the result, instead of
listening to the inward voice of caution
which will prompt and remind him of
his former experience. he cannot be
called wise man. And so it is when
we stand face to face with mighty
problems which the natural senses are
unable to cope with. there is a need for
Us to l:sen to tie voice of conscience,
the voice OF pr nciple, the voice of the
Spirit which leads and guides into all
truth. It is orr duty AZ all times to
listen to the Spirit in preference to all
other thing, no matter what the out
ward probabilities may be. fne spirit
of prophecy reckons not by outward
probabilities; business men may
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