The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-03-08

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Sunday afternoon were opened with the
singing of the hymn:
The great and glorious gospel light
Has ushered orth INTO my SIGHT,
Which IN my soul l nave received,
From bondage and from death relieved.
E der Jss West offered praye a ter
which the CT Or sang:
Who are thes. arrayed in white.
Brighter than the monday sun?
BISHOP o. F. WHITNEY,
who had been called upon to address
the congregation, said that while reflect
ing on the sentim ents of the hymn which
had just been sung, his mind reverted
to an Incl lent narrated in the Holy
Scri ptures, when the mother of Eel
edee's children came with her two SONS
and besought the Savior, s.ying, Lord
grant that these my sons may sit tn
one upon Thy right hand aud tue .one
upon Thy left in Thy kingdom" The
answer of the Son of God was one
fraught with great depth OF meaning
and comes home to the Latter-dsy
Saints with peculiar force. The Say
ior replied: "Ye; kLoE not what ye
ask. Can ye drink Of the cup that l
drink OF? are We able to De baptized
with the baptism that | am baptized
WITH" They replied, We are able. 3"
Jesus then said, truly ye shall drink
Of toe cup that drink OF and We shall
be baptized with my baptlsm; neverthe-
less TO sit upon my right hand and
apon my left is not mine TO give; but 1t
is for those for whom my Father hath
reserved 1t"
There are two great lessons taught in
this simple narrative; and one Is that II
We desire to return to the presence OF
God and be worthV to miugle in the So
clety of the just who have been sanct-
fed through OBJ dlence 10 the principles
of truth, we must pursue the same
thorny path that the Savior trod.
drink of the same bitter Cup or which
He drank, be baptized with His bap-
tism. not only with water and with the
Holy Ghost, but baptized in trials and
sutferings, IN order to become perfect.
And yet after ell these things were doRe,
il was not for the Savior to say who
nand or on His left. These places were
reserved for certain ones WON God
had called, chosen and ordained, even
AS He ordained Abraham, Moses, and
Jeremiah, rs prophets unto the ma
t MS" before they were 10 into the
world. Among the pre-eXlst4nt intelll-
gences that God showed unto Abraham,
there were mai Y noble and great ones
y I'D SnIltS
good: and he stood in the midst OF
them and sale, These will make my
rulers"
jeremiah, wien he was called
to the prophets office, realizing to some
extent the weighty responsibility to be
placed upon him, cried out: "Ah,
Lord God, L connot speak, for am
child" Bat the Lord answered him
re issuringly, promising him that words
would be given HIM to speak unto the
people, and that though they might
fight against him, they should not pre-
vail, for the Lord would be with him to
deliver him. This feeling OF diffidence,
when called to the execution OF q great
task, seemed to be characteristic OF the
greatest spirits in this life. Ordained
to it and accepting it as mission before
the foundation of the world, yet SO
great is the claDge caused by descend
ing into this lower lie, that here they
fain would shrink from it and plead to
e excused. Even Christ, the preemi-
nent Son of Goo, the great standard
bearer of salvation, cried out: Father,
if it be possible, let this cup pass from
me; nevertheless, Thy will, not mine,
oe done"
All these things speak eloquently of
the great fact that there is no royal
road to exah alton. There is no cabin
window of promotion. We must go up
on deck and stand before the mast. We
must pass through all the experiences
that God ordains for our development
and publication. we must drink OF
the bitter cup and be baptized with the
same fiery baptism our Lord and Mas
ter was baptized with When John saw
the mighty vision of which the hymn
S, eaks III which he was shown certain
ones "arrayed in white, nearest to the
| throne OF God and asked who they were
| one replied, These sre they thai came
out OF great trrbulation, and have
washed their 1obts and made them
white in the blood OF the Lamb"
It's source of consolation, a source
| of never-endlng satisfaction to know
that the G ID whom we worship is Be.
ing of justice, of mercy eud mag,
naninity-0ne whoa rewards and
punishes accord ng to the merits
or deserts of the Individual
who will place upon no man reward
which he has not earned; who will pun
ish no soul for the sins of another. W.
have only to walk in the way which
He has marked out for US, and dis
charg our duties to the best of our abll-
itv, carrying out the work that GOD has
given us to do, AID no man takett
avav our crown or exaltaIion. But Il
we aspire to the highest glory we must
be prepared to obey the law thereof, &c
pursue the path that leads thereunto
and to endure all that is necessary fol-
the deve opment. expansion, and pre-
paration of the soul for that exalted
state. For similar causes which form
and grade and classify society here
will form and grade and classify
society there, with this differ
ence, that the society of the
eternal worlds will be based upor
Just and eternal principles. 1t is no
the naughty and the proud who will
occupy the high places there; not those
who erect their heads above their fei
Iow-men, despising the poor and hum
BILE; not those who tyraRnlze over tbe'
fellow creatures; but they who ar