The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-06-05

tnat snould cneer even In affection
Narrow not Ine sOurces of comfort ant
happiness oy fselfishly debasing god1ik,
pSMers, ~ > not hunger after perish
aole Iich IS, but help the needy, thu!
heePin open the fountain of mercy
IoVe and charity. Shuu, we beseecf
.0u, as you would the deadly upas, tn:
vulgarity of unseemly struggles fol
place and power.
When Eli permitted his sons to as
sOciate with harlOtS outside the Tenn
pie, while they lived on the fruits OF
the peoples labor, the Lord spoke
through the boy Samuel and foretold
what should result. A few of our
youth have followed the example OF
Ellis SONS. Their course has been
downward, and they have trodden the
path leading to destruction. Among
all your acquaintance think of one
who, having deserted and turned away
from the Lord, has gained thereby
peace, happiness or greatness. Have
they not, without exception, been as
the moth that falls into the burning
blaze? Have not those seeking the
liberty" of saloons, gambling dens
and the companionship of the unclean
had their wings clipped in the flames
OF quenchless fire?
AS you value happiness, peace and
Joy, SIS you hope for salvation aud ex-
altation, 90 not near the hauntS of
Sound carefully the causes leading to
infldelity and doubt, note the actions
of those who slur the Things of God,
and you will find that vice has stained
the body and plotted the soul. The
Holy Spirit of God dwells not in I'M
clean tabernacleS; and he who sins
aud repents not, doubts. and he who
doubts is damned. Conversely, to him
that believeth (tae things of Cod all
things, whether in heaven, earth or
hell, will be made possible. Go not,
therefore, into the wilderness OF sin to
lean upon broken reeds, but hold fast to
the "rod of iron" leading to the fruits
of eternal life. While earnestly seeking
for knowledge to be found in good
books, bear in mind the fact that the
Holy Ghost is the safest and most pro-
found instructor. He will bring to
your minds things past and present,
and show you things to come. Seek
therefore his constant fellowship, and
his teachings snail make you wise,
good and great, and finally lead you
back into the presence of your Heav-
emily Father.
With all the accumulated wisdom,
knowledge and understanding of the
world, whatsaiid the people know of
the laws of God until Joseph, tae boy
prophet, came? In the midst of the
glare of modern civilization and en-
lightenment the Bible was as a sealed
book. The harmonies of the universe
seemed confusion, while profesSed
ministers taught the doom of everlast-
ing damnation alike for ignorant
heathens and innocent children, neither
of whom had heard of Christ. Holding
their dupes over the flames of an
imaginative hell, they proclaimed the
hideouS doctrine of non-redemption
beyond the grave. While leading red
handed murder, all dripping IN tae
blood of innocence, to the hangman's
scaffold and there promising them, as
they died, free pass into the bosom
of the stainless Christ, they preached
the consignment OF unoaptized infants
forever to the regions of the daRnedi
Blind leaders of the blind, how
could they know God and His ways9
How could they measure His infinite
love? An earthly father, doing with
his children what they claimed God
daily did with his, would have been
regarded even in the dark ages as an
unmitigated, merciless tyrant. No
wonder that such dense lg-
of skepticiSm, out of which has
grown inidel iconoclast, whose iu-
telligent shrewdness plays upon the
darkness of such unh0ly doctrines as
electricity plays upoa the blackneSs of
night. Under their teachings the low
ing husband and condding wife parted
forever at the grave! How awful the
thought indicated in the hooking mar
riage ceremony proclaiming union only
"until death do you part" Were that
all. then indeed would this world and
its brief joys be but delusion and a
snare! But it is not all. In heaven
there are fathers and mothers and
children :husbands and wives eternally
bound together in the bands OF love,
cemented by holy sacred covenants
made on earth.
What food of light, what heaven
of JOY, came from God through His
uncultured boy Prophet! Until he
came, this world seemed as a black
wilderness of woe, beyond which no
heavenly light appeared. As the sun
lights from the east to the west, so the
revelations of Almighty God have pen
etrated our hearts and given US COM
prehensiou of earthly and heavenly
things. This, or future generation,
will produce historians whose delight
it shall be to trace the effects among
Gods children of the marvellous light
brought in the world in our day
through the instrumentality of the
great modern revelator. 1t was indeed
a startling declaration to the world
when he fearlessly proclaimed that
God again had spoken from the heav-
ems! Ignorance stood amazed, while
Scoffiug hypocrisy ragged; but the work
of human redemption goes bravely on,
while the meek and poor and honest
rejoice.
Upon you, dear young brethren. much
defends. Upon your shoulders the
Almighty is rolling responsibilities the
magnitude of which has never been
exceeded in any age. The kingdom OF
God revealed by Joseph will be given
to no other people. II will never fall.
Be We therefore to its interest and ad-
vancement faithful and true. Its gov
eminent is of heaven, and und er it hu-
man liberty and the rights OF man shall
blossom and bloom into perfect fruit,
for the Gospel of Christ is a perfect
law of liberty. Why should any dread
its sway? Christ is the king, and has
not He. earned the right to the do
minion and. rule of His own? His
kingdom is not autecratic, neither
wholly theocratic. 1t is indeed theo-