The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-09
FRANKLIN D. RICHARDS

said he wished to have the Spirit of God
with him, that he might speak in such
manner as was his duty. We should strive
together for the Spirit of the Lord. that the
congregation and speaker might be edited
together. The spirit had directed our pres
ident to speak of the goodness OF God to
him from early life until the present time,
he now being some eighty-two years of
age. All felt it was profitable to hear
him so speak, and it was no
ticeable that Brother Snow led on in
similar strain concerning himself. The
telling of experiences made US call to mind
our own experience, and instead of it being
egotism it was necessary that by each ar-
plying the experience of the other to his
life, it will become profitable. Told of lis
attending a New England revival NEE TIM
where people by being worked upon only
a few minutes by the influence of the
speaker, would rise up and shout that they
had experienced religion" He had at
tended Sunday schools and committed TO
memory whole passages of scripture, yet
he could not find anything in the ennuncia-
tiOns of the revivaliStS that told in definite
terms, and according to scripture, what one
should do to be saved; and being worked
upon by the spirit of the revival, he would
return home and in his ineXperience and
desire oftentimes wet his pillow with tears.
When elders of the church came to New
England where he lived, the direct question
was put to them: What shall we do to be
saved. The answer came, in the language
of the bible: Co. be baptized for the re
mission of sins. That the gospel of
Jesus Christ was again upon the
earth, restored with all its powers
events connected with his joining the
church. Apostle Paul had passed through
trials and persecution of all kinds but the
browning evil which he had to endure was
being thrown among false brethren. 1t
was the worst experience through which he
himself had passed. Remembered when
travelling over prairie at one time OF Joseph
and Hyrum's Imprisonment of picking up
a newspaper that some traveller had
wrapped up lunch in, and he read of the in
generation. A deep gloom had come upon
his companions when they had read but at
that time the spirit of God decended upon
him and he knew that they should again be
released. 1t proved true and that one mani
festation made him strong enough to stand
any persecution that he was called upon to
bear. Persecution was for our good. This
that we are now undergoing was needful
to give traitors, false brethren chance to
assert themselves and to be separated from
us as chaff is from wheat. 1t was neces-
sary for the purity, aleTtness and humility
of the people. Young people must be hum
ble No child can be exalted before its
father Young ladies should seek to beau
tify themselves with the graces and adorn-
ments of the heart rather than of the head.
Prayed Gods blessings would come to al.
APOSTLE MOSES THATCHER
oc yupied the time from 1926 until O'Clock.
His discourse was a very stream OF elo-
quence. Was pleased TO hear rather than
to speak. Talked in obedience to President
Woodruff's request. As people we are
blessed beyond our power to comprehend.
Cannot comprehend the blessings that God
pours out upon US through his priesthood.
liberty, peace, habitations, wives and chill
dreu are ours. The land once wilderness
is now a cultivated garden. What was
desert now bears thirty, forty and a hun
bred fold. The great blessings are with
drawn from the earth and thrown at our
feet. Our fields and aocks have been
blessed. Our habitations, this tabernacle
and the holy sanctuary on the hill are gifts
to us from God as his people. The blessings
Of liberty, peace, homes, habitations, all are
given to us through the priesthood OF God.
We cannot see it as those after us shall see
it. Traced effects to causes in history; 10
the influence of the great work OF
Martin Luther was due the French
revolution. John Knox, his teach,
ings and disciples were the natural