The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-04-10
CONFERENCE rs OVER.
Proceedings of Sunday at the
Tabernacle.
ADDRESSES ON THE OCCASION.
The Counsel and Instructions Given
The Authorities Of the Church
Voted Upon.


be the case. The attendance at both the
morning and afternoon sessions was
very large; when the hour for the
commencement of the afternoon SER
vices had convened, the immense
building was packed to its utmost
and yet there were at least a
thousand who failed to gain admit
lance. The great majority of our
country friends have returned to their
homes, although numbers still linger,
the tickets being good up to the 18th.
At few minutes past 10 clock, the
services were opened, Apostle Lorenzo
Snow presiding. The choir sang the
first four verses of the hymn:
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 ali Thy truths at night.
ELDER A. II. CANNON offered prayer,
after which the choir sang:
o, my Father, Thou that dweilest
In the high aud glorious place.
Apostle John Henry Smith,
who arose to address the large assem-
blage of Saints, read the following pas-
sage OF Scriptures: Behold, 1 will send
you Elijah, the prophet, before the
great and dreadful day of the Lord; and
he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to
the children, and theshearts of the chill
dIen to their fathers, lest I come and
smite the earth with curse" The
speaker said that the hymn which had
just been sung had probably awakened
within the hearts of the Saints. reflec-
tons most deep and earnest. MANY of
them who had embraced the GOSPEL in
other lands, could we'll rem EN- Der upon
the day when, in the providence of
God, there came to them a humble
elder, untutored in the art of fluent
speech, lacking that polish which, in
many instances, characterized those
whom they had been accustomed to
hear on the Sabbath day-those religi-
GUS teachers who had been educated to
minister unto them from the pulpit.
The elder probably came to our doors
to ask rest for the night, or to speak
for a season upon the message OF saliva
ton and explain 10 US the gospel OF
Christ. He reasoned from the sacred
Scriptures which our parents had
taught US to be the ground work of
the Christian faith. The humble Ell.
dsrs labored in their peculiar way to
make clear to our understandings the
principles which God had again revealed
unto men. They explained TO us the
principle of faith, the necessity of an
observance Of
THE LAWS OF GOD
to man-the means by which
men could make an Offering in right
eousness to God their heavenly Father.
Their words were broken, thei- reason
ings were sometimes not so perfect, so
clear, nor so eloquent as the words that
fell from the lips of the gifted scholar;
but they brought with them the sacred
word of God, and while they were IN
able to expound, to our satisfaction,
some of the things pertaining to man
in worldly sense, they opened up to US
the Scriptures of divine truth. They
told US that these scriptures vera not
designed 20 be of any private interpre-
tation, but that they were written
through the inspiration of God and that
they were designed in their character to
educate men in the principles OF
life and salvation. Those humble
servants of God sang to US, perhaps, the
hymn which had just been sung by the
choir. They elevated those who received
their instructions, and probably awak-
ened in their hearts reflections, which
had never before been awakened within
them. We might have heard other re-
ligious teachers dwell upon the
MISSION or JESUS CHRIST,
and they may have instructed US to OBJ
serve certain things; but we never had
been awakened to knowledge of the
great scheme which God had devised tor
man redemption. But the humble
elders bore to US burning words of intel
ligence. Their words awakened within
our hearts many serious reflections
We rejoiced to have the key of know
ledge opened up to our understanding.
We learned that we bad come here upon
a mission, and that we could accept or
reject the principles which God had re-
vealed. 1t gladdened our hearts when
the principles of faith, repentance and
baptism we're preached to US. We were
glad when we became conversant with
the law of tithing-that we should
assist in the work which God had
revealed. The humble servants of God
taught US that those who had passed
away into another sphere of existence
would not be judged, and condemned
if they died without having heard the
gospel. They expounded to US the
of the vicarious fwork which
should be wrought out in fulhllmant
of
THE WORDS OF THE PROPHET,
when he said that the hearts of the
fathers would be turned to the children
and the hearts of the children to the
fathers. Many have wondered at the
interest which has been manifested by
those who seek to trace up their gene
alogy. They realized that they had a
to perform-that God had pro;
vided q means by which their families
and ancestors might be made per-
iect. This vicarious work gave
those who had passed away with
put a knowledge of the gospel, the
privilege of receiving the benefits of the
wrought out by Christ. God
had established in this vicarious work
whereby one human being
could do something in behalf of an
other for the redemption of His sons and