The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-04-08

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the flesh. heard of man who bes
his wife - knocked her down in
moment of anger, and then said that n
was trembling with the power OF God
We are sometimes apt to deceive our
selves, as to whether we have the Holy
Ghost or not. Our own spirit, or tht
spirit of the evil one, we may sometime!
attempt to palm of as the Spirit of The
Almighty. For there are three indie
pendent principles, says Joseph Smith
the Prophet, Sin all creation. One i,
the spirit of God. leading upward one
is the Spirit OF the devil, leading down
one is the spirit of man, subject to and
susceptible of the impressions of the
other two" And to all men are given
power to resist the evil one and to
cleave unto that which is good. And
how often, as we stand, hesitating be-
fore some mighty problem, upon the
brink of great and momentous ques-
ton, we hear the tinckling sound, the
music OF oratory that is in
THE VOICE OF THE DEVIL,
trying to pass himself off as the Son of
God. But if we turn our hearts away
from that which is so seductive, which
administers to self. which prompts us
to do that which will give these bodies
pleasure and rebound to our personal
advantage. if we rebuke it and turn to
| The other side, we will hear the still,
small voice of the Spirit of God saying,
"Well done, good and faithful" For
the devil is an orator. He can deceive
the ear: he can transform himself into
an angel of light and deceive the eye,
bat he cannot, as the Lord God lives.
briog with him the Holy Ghost. lie
cannot give that which he never has
received, which he does not possess.
An evil tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A
bitter fountain brinpeth forth bitter
waters. And there is way to Judge,
we are told by the Prophet Mormon,
that is as plain as the daylight is
from the dark night. That which
teaches to love God, and to serve Him,
to deny self, to remember to love our
brethren and our sisters; to love the
work of God and to be built up in
Christ. He says this is the Spirit of
Christ and ye may know it with per-
feet knowledge; for that which per-
suadeth man to do good is from God;
for Satan psrsuadeth no man to do
good. Let US gaze at ourselves in this
glass; ask ourselves, indeed, as the
epistle says, do in every act and word
of my life set such an example as my
children, when they grow up to man
hood and Womanhood will follow after,
will rejoice in, will thank God that they
had such father or such a mother?
Or will we, by the neglect of setting
such example, or give such teaching, as
will take our children down to perdi-
ton? Then rest assured, Latter-day
Saints, that If your children are thrust
into hell,
BY REASoN OF YOUR NEGLECT
or your teachings, as the Lord God
liveth, you will have to go down and
get them. You cannot sunder
the ties between you and your
posterity so easily. The hearts of the
fathers must be turned to their chill
dren, and the hearts of the children to
their fathers, CT the whole earth will be
smitten with q curse. And how is it
here? l know young men and young
women are growing up, after having
been born in the midst of Zion, from
parents who profess to be Latter-day
Saints-yes, some of them Of honored
name and family in Israel, growing up
In ignorance of the principles of the
gospel; careless of their meetings.;
careless of their prayers; doing not
those things which God commands,
and doing everything, almost, which he
has forbidden. What will the harvest
be2 1t means disaster, it means de-
struction, for those who attach them
selves to Babylon with her in her fall.
On the contrary, there are many who
are serving God; who are humble,
and who are teaching and being
taught the principles of the gospel
of Jesus Christ. Upon their shoulders
will rest the burden and the response
bility of carrying out the great work of
God; and they shall share in the glory
which the others have forfeited and for
saken. This is day Of preparation.
THERE IS NO TIME TO WASTE,
no time to fritter away in folly. Recre-
alton and amusement are necessary in
their proper time and proper place.
But there be those among US who do
nothing but laugh and kick up their
heels from morning to night, as though
this life were huge joke instead of the
stern and awful reality, and as though
this earth was playground for idle
and the student. There are those who
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ways of the Gentiles, which are typical
to the earth and the things thereof, for
getting that their mission is typical of
heaven and the things thereof
81 give not unto you to live after
the manner of The world" and
this is day of preparation,
the voice of one crying in the wilder
ness, "prepare ye the way of the Lord
make His paths straight" Every val
ley shall be exalted, and every noun
ain and hill shall be made low; and the
crooked paths shall be made straight,
and the rough places plain" The val
legs, my brethren and sisters, typify
the humble and the meek, ana the
lewly. God thinks of you-God re
members you; and He will lift you up,
and many that are first shall be last
and they that are last, many of them,
shall be first; for the naughty and the
proud, and they that do wickedly shall
fall with Babylon, when their mission
here is to build up Zion. They will be
brought low; they who love their riches
more than the things of God will be
BROUGHT DOWN TO POVERTY.
And thus, by this grand leveling, this
bringing all mankind to an equality,
that the sons of God may have ali things
equal. And remember that equality and |