Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-02-08

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coufse Of God WIS Oue eternal round.
Then n II was His way In the olden
times to speak 10 the fathers by tue
Prophets, why should He not speak To
the people IN the latter times by
Prophets. In similar way2 He had
never yet heard good reason why lie
should not
There wa. not liue ia the old
'reetament or The new which said that
the time should come when God would
shut up the heavens and seal tnom
over the heads of His children, ~
that no divine word should again come
down nom on high. There were pre-.
dictions that darkness should Come
upOu the fdcc OF tue earth anu gross
darkness cover the predictions
that the people would close their ears
agaiuet the revelations " God, and
turn from sound doctrine unto iabice.
Was II not afact that these prophecies
had come IN pass? A great many
people uii not want revelation from
on hlgh-the word n God direct from
Him. They wanted preacher after
their own heaft--some man they coul1
hire and nay NJ their servant, who
would preach 10 them that which they
tickling their "itching ears"
The speaker referred 10 many Of the
erroneous doctrines, or fables, now
taught among so.called Christian
scots. Some Of those fables were
Matched In mouastic cloisters In by
gone DAYS the renl "dntk agCs"-by
colibate monks in their cellS--dark
ideas Of God and His jusliCe-mon-
strOus Ideas OF the Father OF the race,
and Of COTE dealings with His
creatures. The idea that God would
roast infants In burning flames for
ever because they were not "elect;"
that he would put people In eternal
misery aud never take them out Of II
again just because they did not be.
lieve something they had never under
stood, was one OF the fables Of modern
Christendom preached by men pro-
fosslng 10 have authority from God.
Another of their ideas was that our
Father was Being without body,
parts or passions. that His cantre was
every where aud Hts circumference
nowhere, that lie .U'ed all space AM
yet took III no room. Taking these
and scores of other fables that men had
turned their ears 10 instead OF the
truth, was II not reasonable to believe
that God should reveal something TO Us
now that we could understand, In
order TO explain something shout His
ways and what He required Of "?
The speakers experience In regard
to tue truth Of the Gospel NJ revealed
10 the Prophet Joseph Smith was slmi-
lar to That of Elder Lambert. When
bo hr-t heard It he thought II too
good TO be true; but no did not throw
II aside without investigation, though
only n boy mt the time. He Ind been
trained % believe in the ,ChTistian re-
liglon; h. had made himself acquainted
with the Bible from his early childhood;
and when h. heard about this Gospe
he, like Others, Mt list laughed NJ u.
But when no looked into itnnd COM
pared the teachings OF joseph Smith
with those Of the New Teatumcut he
found that they cOrrespOndud In every
particular with the toachirga Of Jesus
and His Apostles. After investigation
from error, and lead him 10 the truth,
he was baptized by u man claiming ~
have authority from God In the
same way M did the ancient
Apostles and servants OF God.
God that this work whs true, and he
found this 10 be- superior 10 the seeing
Of the eye and the hearing OF the ear,
and that Information which may be
gained through our sense, for we
were apt TO loo deceived sometimes even
by our eyes or ears. The Holy Ghost
never deceived. When person heard
testimony OF the truth spoken by In
s..l
dcsifcd the truth, II he would follow up
the impression which lac had received,
u would lead him step 10y step into the
light OF truth until lac obtained the
Holy Ghost the Comforter, and his
whole being would he filled with light.
uu knew that this spirit Of truth was
n reality and not an imaginary thing.
"No man knoweth tho thugs OF
God hut by the spirit Of God"
and "tho spirit srarcheih ali things,
yea, the deep things OF Got"
The reason why the Saints had
gathered 10 these mountains was he
cause they had received that sDlTit.
The Lattor-dgy Saints were not under
stood by the WORLD anu they would
not be able TO make themselves under
stood until people saw the object aud
purpose which they had In coming
mere. They had not come here 20
combine against any government, to
he tools or slaves Of men, 10 be dictated
10 anu domineetcd over 10y any one,
whether they were called priests OF
prophets. They received testimony
VI the truth IN those parts Of the
world were they heard IL. They
received the Holy Ghost, there; they
received u testimony that God lives,
that Jesus was the Christ, and that they
were accepted by God, after they We're
baptized into the Church; aud 1t was
that epirit which had led Them on and
enabled them n overcome the
difficulties which lay in their path.
Rejected anu cast out by their friends,
sometimes 10y their own families, they
cared not Tor the world nor the things
Of the world In comparison with vida,
they had gained spiritually. All
they had left Oehiui them was rs dross
compared with the excellence Of the
things OF God. So they turned their
backs Ion their native lands aud ell
thcy POSSESSED there aud came 10 these
valleys 10 encounter trials anu hard
ships not Tor wealth, but
for the truth. There was no
tie ~ strong as that which bound them
together Us brothers and sisters Ia the
Gospel by this one spirit into which
they had been baptized. Whatever
they were or believed or disbeiloyed
before, they were now the sons ana
daughters Oftlie Lord, and had q been
"baplized by oEe spiritinto one body"
by the help Of the Lord they expected
10 20 ON together, no matter " hat
might come IN the way.
Al they asked Of their friends who