Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-11-04

President Cannon has been telling us
about We have no right to waste our
substance In riotous living, nor TO COM
sumo our means upon our lusts. IL Is
our duty to make safe and careful and
righteous use OF these things, and let
our means be spent to gather Israel. to
preach the Gospel TO 30 to the nations
uf the earth and to win some from among
each nation that shall rise up and be
witnesses for these nations Of the truth
OF the Son Of God. and that shall have
responsibility to carry Il TO their
fellow creatures OF their nations and
families, as We have been dong TO the
Engish-speaking peoples,
These are duties that dcvolvc upon us;
but we are too apt to forget u was AL.
ways the case with Gods people. when
they got abundance and began 10 live IN
luxury and plenty. and to adom their
persons aud habitations, they became
proud and lifted up. or uumIndu. at
least Of their duties, SO that the dis
pleasure OF the Lord rested upon them.
u he has brought US TO see these things
and enter more earnestly aud honestly,
more humby and powerfully into the
work that Is upon MS, II will be a benefit
to us and TO the human family pray
the Lord to pour out this spirit upon as
more and more, that we may sense the
duty that we owe to the nations that
have not been visited and that know
nothing OF us except by the distant
rumblngs Of reports. AS has been the
case IN all our experience that We have
stopped and bowed down to conquer,
we shall still stoop to conquer, II we
have to; and Il we do not have 20. we
ought to humble ourselves to that power
OF God that shall enable Us 10 have
strength 20 overcome the opposing ~.
iluencc In the earth. Yes, brethren and
sisters, We should strive for the influence
OF that spirit IN such abundance aud such
measure that we shall prevail over every
influence In the earth that Is not or.
dained Of God. This is the way the
Presidency feel. the Apostles feel, and
are trying TO act and to live; and we
should cndeavor by the experience OF
these times to profit ourselves, So that
we may be established, and so that we
never can be caught again In these UNI
pleasant circumstances and conditions.
Let me remind you, my dear brethren,
that probably the first sermon YOU
heard from the Elders who brought the
truth to YOU In your nations and coun-
tries was that the angel came flying
through the midst OF heaven having the
everlasting Gospel to commit unto men.
to every nation, kindred, tongue and
people, saying with a loud voice. Fear
God, and give glory to him, for the
hour OF his judgment is come" That
was the kernel vi the story, Fear God,
and give glory to him, for the hour Of
his yAdgHeH Is e0US, and worship him
that made the heavens. the earth, and
the seas, and the fountains OF waters.
Too many OF us have forgotten that we
live in the hour Of Gods judgment. We
build castles Ia the air. and We arrange
for great many things that we have
little idea OF the outcome, because the
Lord is leading us by a strange path
that people have not walked IN before
He has said that lie would lead us in n
strange pa,h-in a path that the eagles
eye hath not seen nor the lions Whelp
walked In. II Is path different from
what lie has led His people in any age