Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-08-04

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WIS the next speaker. He said
there were doubtless some present
Wis thought Brother Miner hat
been setting forth strange doctrines
But they were not s'sSse to th'
Latter-day SAINTS generally. mos
who are strangers in our midst she
vS5 imagine they know all aOoS
.sNiU.rzoEfsIny from having hearc
IL from o..> sn,.atess may Trims
those doctrines strange for US u
teach. But they are ofi IS eternity
They are the truth, |b7clf neFei
was created, but is seif-eXistsr5 ahu
eternal. When Christ taught 49, -,
principles, IL is said that the multi
Jude were astonished At HIS doetr
Ii vas strange 10 them 10 be told e
love their enemies and shed iofti
tire Senixn influence Of their com
passion UPON all men, even as O'N
sends forth HisFsin and sunshine Oh
the lust and on the unjust. Why weI,
they astOuished? BecAHse for M
teen hundred years that ssstson rad
been trained under the law Of re
ts1!G-.on. What n thunderbOh y
must hare been to them % lie to'S
10 love their enemies. They hed
been taught 10 love their neighbOrs
aud hate their enemies, and To exact
"an eve for an eye and a tooth Tor a
tooth.,' There are doubtless some
today who are surprised a any
cti,.r doctrine. Why: Because u
the ignorance and weakness % man,
But if We a-csEd to that plane oi
thought which IS above the grove
ing passions Of the flesh, We can
see the beauty, the truth ana
she divine necessity o! such
a rJUic and TnagDauimJus doctrine.
VIVA: " II % love our enemies.
There are ln,uy kinds OF love n III Z
world. Some men imagine they
love when they merely lust There
are various emotions which naasH rs
love and friendship anu dectaNs
many. Jesus said: "GreateF laye
.b>n this hath no man that he VII!
lay dorm his life for his friends: :
Til, IS this lore which He exemplI-
fe,l. He laid down His life for the
world Of mankind, aud exempiihed
the great love which animated His
heart for the race. Yet He taught
His disciples 10 beware Of the raven
OF the phsrisees. To love cur
enemies d0ts not mean therefore 70
uat!ern AFTER their evil ways and
wallow with them IN then
iuiduity. That Is ne. She love
which Christ meant. He DID not
mean for us % take the wicked Into
Oh. homes and families, and all1r
Ourselves b Ice contaminated by
them. He said. have chosen you
out Of the wogldj We are not OF the
world. He 'inculcsted this Princl'
ne. snat His disciples were 70 De
seuara;, sud distinct; rot naughty
and proud, sDd exclusive, 1lt
srparate by their righteousness. de
told them to he humble, and pure,
ami the result would be separation
from the wicked. He meant thai
His disciples should he as city SCI
upon a hill which cannot be hid.
IL was by their examples as well a
their precepts that they were To
manifest divine love. Il wa 70 draw
men from evil and make them
better. not 40 down to their level
and be like lutur. Those who come
iuto the household q faith arc re-
uG.rsd % he cleansei OF their slns.
10 love or c8emies Gees nOs mean
fhat Ne shuui! IMPROVE the wicked
equally with the righteous. No;
.hey draw the line themselves, by
heir own lad conduct, USiweeu
hem and the righteous. But 70
.hOulI always remember, a. has
been said, that they are the children
Il CCi. They came on the eartn ~
sc have cOcN-, 10 perform n mission.
rhey are in the hands % God, anu
Is His children we shOuld love them.
81. we are net 10 pattern
lfter Or Ei"irc the evil they do.
We should desrfa4 their evil ways
With all oar hearts. and see that We
10 not fall into the pits whish they
Ire digging fur themselves. Tue
I.ettrr-day Saints have always be
ievcd this principle Of having char
~ FOR their enemies. They may
rot always have yracticed It as they
hOuld. / do not suppose that
when twelve hundred Of the Saints
we're driven with Ire and sword
rom Jackson County, Missouri, and
obbed Of their homes and posses
ions, they felt very much Ike
itting down and writing essays on .
me golden rule. Or when in the
winter o. 1883, 1900 men, women
md children were expelled from
he state. leaving their bloody
1JtpTiuts on the snow Us they He'd
rom their merciies, CppressOrs, tnHt
hey stopped 10 preach peace on
arth, good will 20 man. When they
we're compelled to leave Illinois, Z
itcr their Prophet aud Patriarch .
adj been cruelty murdered, and ,
rev their wagons across the desert, q,
D this land, ami when ten years
l;eT, they head that an army var
n the way, ~ they supposed, 70
lurler AMI plumber them, as the
Militia did in Missouri, they did not
lince their words very much, nor B
reach muck Of tine golden rule.
heir circumstances will account
" much u the apparent harshaes-
{ the teachings OF those days. But
own in the heart Of ''lfOTmOnism';
lere was imbelied the principle Of
we Tor mankiud-aud were i not
, "MOrmOuism" would not be Iii
needing change Of CiT-
10 make itself manifest.
nj bear fruit in the lives Of its dis
IpleA
IL It If cret!tlble 10 Us 70 manifest
his love in times Of peace, how
.uch more creuitablc TO do so in
mes Of turmoil and trouble and
zrsecution. Now Is a grand Oppor-
nifty foF the Saints 90 show this
we, when their enemies are OBJ
ressing them, and grinding them
Ito jilc dust. Even IL our Father
quirgJ Of Us t..st We Tie that such
zen might lie saved, hope we
ould feel Is Jesus did. "Not my
Ill, Father, bat Thine, be done.D
his is ''MOrmonism." is appro-
late at times 10 use the lash, as
ssus did when lie drove the money
hangers from the Temple. | DO
Il, therefore, apologies fer the
ords Of fire spoken BY our leaders
early uays; they are justified 10y
e occasion. But new occasions
sch new duties" and today we
we grand opportunity to forgive
II enemies, return good for evil,
ID emulate that Being above whose
imbie cradle the angels sang:
ilory 20 God in the highest, aud
earth peace, good will toward
en-
The choirslng the anthem:
Who Is like uaio Thee. U LORD
The closing prayer was offered by
der Jesse West.
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