The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-06
There were the usual preliminary exsr-

There were the usual preliminary exer-
cises.
President A, o. Smoot.
1t afforded him pleaiure to again
have the privilege of assembling with
the Saints in conference capacity and
communing with them concerning the
kingdom of God. The calling of Lat
ter-day Saint is no ordinary one. 1t
means great deal mere than we, per-
haps. comprehend. 1t implies that we
are the servants of the Lord, and must
listen to the guidance of His word
through the mediums Hs has chosen.
The name OF Latter. day Saint implies
that it is our business to gather Israel
from the four quarters of the earth and
plant them here upon this land; it i'm
plies that We are temple-builders; that
we obey the laws God has given to His
| people to protect them from the evils to
| which they are exposed; it implies that
| we have great work in those temples,
both for the living and The dead. In
| fact, Latter.day Saint is supposed to
observe all the commands the Lord has
given and to receive thereby the riches
of eternal life, which are the greatest
its of God Hence. it is not an idle
calling, and is one that should not be
tempered with. We have more than an
ordinary work to do, for all these things
devolve upon the dispensation in
which we live. We must bear
the glad tidings to the distant
nations of the earth, who must hear it
before the end shall come. Both
prophets and others have told US that
the second advent is near at hand, and
it behooves US to prepare a suitable
bride for the groom, when will follow
thousand years of rest, during which
time Satan will be bound. We ind
ourselves looked upon by the people OF
the world as avery
PECULIAR AND MARVELLOUS PEOPLE,
AMI with all its learning, the world can
not understand Zion. The world perse
cuted Christ and also his followers, and
it would be a strange thing if Zion were
applauded by the nations of the earth !;
for by following out the law OF God,
Christ has told US We should be perse-
cuted. A gentleman recently said to
me: eff your people would ouly let
polygamy alone, you would be very
popular people, l replied that our
experience was an argument against
this. Long before polygamy was ever
known. We were robbed and p'undered,
our homes barned aud our prophets
murdered. And why was this? When
Joseph Smith was mere boy, just as
soon as the angel appeared TO HIN and
told him of the sacred plates in the
| Hill Cdmorah, the prosecutions COM
| menced, have CO atiDued ever since, and
pe-ajyenture will continue. Very many
of the Latter-day Saints have become
| Weak-knted, doubtful and skeptical,
and some of than have even gone so
far as to wond n whether the Lord has
not forsaken them. Let me tell you
that the Lord has not fOrsaken Zion.
The chastisements received are for our
own good. AS President Young had
said, 1T is the Kingdom of God or
nothing" and so it is. Let me tell you,
before [ sit down, that the church of
God has been established never again
to be thrown down; and that the King
dom of God may triumph is the prayer
of your servant. Amen.
Elder sey mour b. Young.
He did not anticipate the pleasure of
addressing his brethren and sisters,
desired their faith and prayers, and
hoped to have the Spirit of the Lord in
all that he might say. These general
meetings to US are, in reality, good
things for Latter-day Israel, and as my
brethren have remarked here to-day
who have addressed you, this is q time
of schooling. of experience, for the
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inevitable that the people should wade
powers of evil were srraigned against
the youthful Joseph, and he had to
contend with them as best he could. In
1884, he called upon a few of his
brethren to accompany him to Mis-
souri,. and this company was known as
lions Damp, a name which attaches to
it even to this day. Many Of the mem
,rs, however, have passed away, and
are now working in the courts on hign.
Soon after the arrival at the camp in
Missouri a dreadful fever broke out,
and the Lord commanded Joseph to
stand aside, or he would be destroyed.
Two years after this, however, Joseph
proclaimed that he had seen the breth-
rcn who had died of
THAT DREADFUL VISITATION
In Zion's Camp, and that if he ever be-
came as happy he would be satisfied.
Aud thus it always was, no matter how
severe our chastlssment. the Lord is
always near. | am satisfied, that had
we not been called to pass through the
trials we have experienced, IVA could
not have kept the faith. Whenever the
Latter day Saints have obeyed, their
prophets, the people have always pros
pered. After they left Nauvoo in lS46,
the camps of the Saints were scattered
from the Missouri to the Mississippi.
The government made call upon the
Saints
FOR FIv HUNDRED TROOPS
To go into Mexico. There was not the
slightest nece ssity for this call. espe-
cially when we consider the condition
of poverty and restitution they were
then in. President Young, with the eye