Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-03-08

) phiiossrherr Chrissfi- minis
! Why Is this As have said,
! there are dIscsspses delivered far
more siopuent than we hear In this
) Tabernacle or in any other meeting
, house. aOnr Elders do not compare
with these learned men, so far as
beauty OF language and oratory, and
{ all the crscss that make language
: attractive 20 those that listen to it
are colcerned. And yet among the
: batter-day Saints we perceive these
moral truths carried out frequently
in the lives Of the people.
Why Is this? Ii Is be-
: cause God has revealed TO Us
: the truth, aud II has this effect
when accompanied by the Spirit Of
God upon the hearts Of the people.
II isuot mans learning that makes
the Latter-day Saints whit they are
today, no man can claim any glory
FOR this, fo- there are far more elO-
quent men, far more learned men,
far wiser men according to the wis
dom OF the world outside Of this
Church than init. Why Is IT. IL
is because God has revealed the
everlasting Gospel; revealed it to
unlearDed men, iiiiterate men, to
whom lie has given authority to
administer the ordinances OF life
aud salvation; and the principles Of
the Gospel thus administered have
this eject upon those who receive
their teachings, though taught I'M
grammatically, perhaps, many times;
taught in tbs uttfost simplicity.
sometimes with the greatest awk-
waTdness; but taught, nevertheless,
by men who have been eCmmis-
stoned of God 10 administer the or
dinances of life and salvation, and
TO teach theih 10 theit fellows; and
the truth thus taught is ac-
companied by the convincing
I Spirit and power Of God; and,
therefore, to God belongs the glory,
and He will have the glory of this
work and not man. No man will
be able to stand before Him and
claim any credit connected with
the building up OF His work on the
earth. He will have all the glory
OF IL, and our -alvatiOn will be due
10 Him, not TO our fellOWmen. But
| have been greatly struck in listen
ing TO GiscOurses OF this character Of
which | speak, and have wondered,
As / have said. at the little effect
they Ind upon their hearers, In
changing their lives, in elevating
them and In abolishing the evils
which exist, and which cry loudly
to heaven for CORRECTION And this
/ is so with Us TO a great extent. /
thought that we ourselves came far
from reaching the standard that
Coz has held up for Us. Weare not
As sei.-sacrifcins as we should be;
we do not love our neighbors as we
should do. In our struggles we
think little Of those that are weaker
than ourselves, that have not the
ability that We have, and we pass
them in the race, and frequently we
JOstle them out OF the track. There
Is too much Of this among us; but | /
hope Tor Zion; / am full Of faith for
the future OF this work, knowing as
10 that God is with t. and that 4
he VIII dead with US until He takes /
all that is evil out OF us, and 4
that he will make us a people that 4
lie VIII be delighted to own and |
bless aud call His own. Those who
fail 10 live mp TO this standard will /
lese Ills spirit, and il they 20 far
enough in the other direction they
Will apostatize; but the pure in heart
VIII march forward until they Oh
tain that perfection that all earnestly
desire. / don't think there is a
human being that has thought
about these things who has not
yearned IN his heart for a better
condition Of affairs than that which
We witness. And / repeat, the Cos
pei Of the LOni Jesus Is the means
by which IL will be brought about:
and that Gospel is here, and its
power l. here, and Il will continue
here, gradually fulfilling its high
DESTINY until these evils under
which the human family 50 groan I
shall lie abolished and removed from
the cath, and the love OF God will
reign supreme in every human ,
breast. This Is no dream, no imagin-
airy thing. But it is that which will
be realized, for God has said il shall
be fulfilled.
The reason we are hated today is /
because Of these very things, II I
we would be Ike the rest Of the ,
world We world have no Opposition ,
from the world. Jesus said tn His
lisclpic., az ye we're Of the world, 4,
The world wonld love his own: but Z
because ye are not OF the world. but I
/ have chosen you out Of the world. q
therefore the world hateth YOU" IL [
Z just the same today. IL we were i
like the world the world would love c
Is: but because God has cho-en US ?
lut Of the world, therefore the world I
hates US; and we shall be hated rs 4
ong rs we preserve these virtues q
Ind contend for them, as long rs We Z
'efuse 10 partske Of the cup OF forni- i.
'auons which the mother Of abomin- h
sliOns holds cut 10 Us; rs long rs we h
eiuse to have the mark OF the beast 4.
ipgn as, - long shall we have this u
'ppOsitloh to contend with, until n
5dhylon is OvBrthrOwn and de- "
lroyed from the fsce OF the earth-a n
onsumnatisn that is mol Fery lar e
iistani. IL we would drink Of that "a
up which that great mother Of Of
holds IN her hands 4
ppCsition would cease, for we would o
hen be Ike them, we would be Of m
hem. But while we stand firm u
nj steadfitst, maintaining the prin- "
lpies which God has taught us. and h;
;skiDy "a cary out the rlorious hi
iospel Of His Son which lie f.irns "a
III taught when upon the earth IN
long ne sc do this, you may de- I'll
end upOnit, the world viii haze no m
we for US am speaking now in be
eneral terms. There are men and in
omen, net very numerous. that br
have kindly feelings for us, who an
ould not do us wrong, but their su
ices are unhear'i amid the gen re-
n ciamOr that is7Taised against US. 10
l want 10 say 10 you, my brethren be
I'd sisters, that the line OF distiuc- eli
IN was never more clearly drayi, ID,
tween the Church of the Lamb of 81,
ID and tbe other great church WI
out which the Prophets have wi
oxen than II is tJdhv. That line 70
sharply drawn, and there is a tn,
iong determination on the mart of am
e world 10 make the line distinct. / ,
q as one very prominent man, one yol
the most prominent men in the wo
ton, said to me n few days ago: say
is the old thing over again, the ms
], old sooryf the primitive Chfls- inl
ms they We're prosecuted rs long TIL
they Did not fall in with the IN,
sws and IDEAS Of the Romans; the fra
man Empire made incessaut gar wi
On them until they assimilated to ma
ne extent with the views that tiol
walled in Rome and in the En- fait
Z; and they would have had To our
,euInb or TO assiThilate entirely anC
It is, they would have had to ma
'ow aside every distinctive fea- will
Re that made them peculiar had wi,
Roman Empire not fallen to tIa1
ces. IL will be sojn your case, he VIII