The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-02-26

that they possess to carry cut His pur-
poses. There is no change of the
priesthood from eternity unto eternity.
1t has dwelt with the God of Israel
from eternity unto eternity, ard will
remain upchangeable. There is no
change in the ordinances of the 90. pei
been; there never will be to the endless
ages of eternity. AMI whenever that
gospel has been offered to the sons of
men, the holy priesthood has bad to be
sent down to aid in carrying out Gods
work. There is no man VINO ever
brea he'd the breath of life since God
made the world who has had power to
90 forth and administer in the ordI-
nances OF the gospel of Christ without
that priesthood.
Another thing l wish to say: Almost
sixty years have passed aimee the
church was organized here on the
earth, and the Lord has carried out one
| peculiar principle. and that is this: He
has chosen the weak things of the
world to confound the wise, and things
which are not to bring to pass things
which are. You may begin with the
creation of the world. Yod may take
all the servants of the Almighty that
| the God of Israel has ever made use of
in any age of the world to carry out
his work, and they have been the weak
sons of Adam: they have been the weak
instruments, from worldly stand
point, IN the hands of Almighty God.
Why has the Lord chosen that class of
men2 Because they have been in
position that they were obliged to
acknowledge the hand of God in all the
power they possessed. Take our own
day. Brother Cannon has referred to
dom. He has told you the truth.
ment of the revelations of S..
John and the ancient patriarchs
and prophets. for Him to establish His
kingdom on the earth, He raised up
class of men suitable for the purpose.
will here say, the Lord has never under
taken to perform any work, in any
dispensation or generation, without
preparing a people for it. The Lord
raised up young man-Joseph Smith.
| His spirit was kept in the eternal
world for 5000 years, to come forth by
appointment, through the loins of
ancient Joseph and Ephraim, to stand
in the flesh and to establish this church
aud kingdom. And he only lived long
enough to perform it. He only lived
long enough to bring forth the record
of the Book of Mormon-the stick of
Joseph in the hands of Fphraim, and
put it with the stick OF udah, IN fulfill
ment of the revelations of God; and
then go forth and organize the church,
with all the instruments, all the knowl-
edge, that all the divines through
out the world did not have power to
do, neither did they know how to
perform that work He was the first
man in the last days that ever organ
lied a church upon the foundation
of apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus
being the chief corner stone, according
to the order as it was in the days of the
Savior. And when He established this
work, He established it with prophets,
with apostles, with pastors, with teach
ers, with gifts, with helps, with graces,
with the holy priesthood, with the
power of God and with the ordinances
thereof. 1t is true, he waded in deep
water 1t is true that he was sacrificed.
When he had got the foundation of this
work laid, he himself laid down his life.
He was martyred in Christian country
for the work of God and the testimony
of Jesus Christ. BE was martyred for
his religion. He sealed his testimony
with his blood, as Jesus and other pa
triarchs and prophets sealed the dis
pensations in which they lived.
From that day until now, this Church
and Kingdom has continued to grow
and increase. 1t mattered not what
amount of persecution, what amount of
affection, what amount Of opposition
we had to meet with. That God who
created the heavens and the earth holds
this Church and Kingdom in His hands.
And 1 here say to my brethren and
sisters, the Church and Kingdom of
God is here. 1t has come to stay. It
has been organized to stay; and that
God who has organized it will sustain
it until the scene is wound up.
have been rejecting since sitting in
the stand here, where are our brethren
to whom we have listened for years and
years2 Where is President YoungP
Where is Brother Kimball? Where are
Orson and Farley Pratt? Where is
George A. Smith? Where is President
John Taylor? And where are all those
other Apostles who have passed away ?
They are in the spirit world, mingling
with the Gods, connected will all the
patriarchs and prophets who ever lived
on the earth. You may ask the ques-
LlOus why 40 lGs Iueu, tuab OOu, Will
the Savior, with Father Adam,
with Noah, with Enoch, with the
ancient patriarchs and prophets, and
with all the Apostles who have lived in
this day and generation, counseling to-
gsther on the other side of the vail do
not have power to turn away this perse-
cution that Brother Cannon has been
speaking of? Jesus told His disciples
that if he were to pray to the Father,
He would give Him a legion of angels
who would come to defend Him; but,
He said, the will of the Father would
not in that way be fulfilled. So l say
to you. If many things that we might
desire in our hearts should be full
filed, the work of the Lord would fail
in being contaminated. We should
remember that this generation, like all
other generations, have their own
agencies. The nation in the midst sof
which we dwell to-day has its agency.
The nations of the earth all have their
agency. All sects and parties have; in
.ct, all the human family. And the
God of Heaven will hold them
responsible, He will hold Us respons-
| IDLE, according to the course we pur-