Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-07-09
WORDS OF WARNING
Delivered In the Tabernacle. Salt
Lake city, sunday Afternoon
July q. 1904 by
FRESTENT GEORGE 4, CiNNOy.


! giving the revelations that have been
embodied Ia what we call the book Of
Doctrine aud Covenants, which We
receive a. tho word Of God 20 us In this
generation. In Section / Of tie book
Of Doctrine and Covenants, the Lord
says.
| Behold, this IL mine authority, aud
/ the au hurify OF my Servants, sud my
/ preface unto the book OF my command
| monts, which have given them ~ pub
lish unto you, % Inhabitants OF tho
| earth
Wherefore, fear and tromble, q ye
| people, for what the Lord have decrood
In them shall DO fulfilled.
In another part Of the same section,
the Lord say;
wherefore. tho Lord. knowing tho
/ calamity which should come upon tho
Inhabitants ~ the earth, called upon my
servant Joseph Smith, lr., and spako
unto him from heaven, and gave him
commandments
And also gave commandments TO
oihors, that thoy sshouli proclaim those
thing. unto tho world and all this that
ID might be fulfilled, which was written
And again. verify J
say unto you, q inhabitants Of the
earth, / the Lord am willing to make
these things known unto all iiosh,
d. For / am no rospocter Of persons, aud
Will that all mon shall know that the day
speedily cometh. the hour ia not vet
hut IL nigh NJ hand, whom peace shall be-
takon from tho earth, aud tho devil
shall have power Ovor his own do
minioni
And also the Lord shall have power
over His Saints, and shall reign In their
midst, and shall come down la Iudg-
ment upon idumoa, or tho world.
Search these commandments, for they
arc true and faithful, and tho prophecies
aud promises which are In them shall all
DO fulhllod.
We have been told this afternoon
something c-nseTning the Elders Of
this Church going forth 20 preach 10
the people. II Ia true we nave sought
10 toson thu primitive GJspel as II was
taught by the Al ostlee Of oli,with all
the gifts and gfaces that accompanied
it, preaching Ia their day. But there
was something more than this. Every
man that went forth was COMMANDED
10 lift up his voice and call upon the
People IN warning tones an tell them
that tbs Lord was about to visit the In
hAbitnut, Of the earth with judgment;
that these were tue last days, and taat
calamity should come up0n the inhab-
itanls Of tho sarth unless they Ie-
penttd AID turned from their sine.
For these were the days spoken Of by
Jesus when meu's hearts should iail
them with fear la looking for the
things which were coming upon the
earth. This message has been pro-
claimed Tor sixty-ivur years Ia the ears
" all people who would listen TO
II. The Elders have tfavsrsed the
islands aud the continents warning
thvpeople. Our own nation has been
warned necessarily, might say, ~
much 20 that We have become Odious
In the eyes OF those who have heard
our talk. They have looked upon us a.
cfoakers aud almost ~ traitors because
We have lifted our voices In warning,
telling them that there waseyil coming
upon the land unluss there was ropeut.
nuCe.
It's not pleasant duty for men to
discharge, TO have 20 warn their fellow.
men OF impending evil IL IL much
more pleasant 10 predict peace aud 10
say, "Nou are al right You are doing
lust what you ought 10 10. Keep Ou.o
We are all pleased when We are praised
aud are told tnat our course Is proper
one; but it has been the uupleai.
ant duty of tbs Elders OF
this Church 20 bear different
testimony. They have been com.
mandcd 10 say 10 the people, "Yuu are
doing wfOnHi you afe going 10 deslfuc.
ton; aud you must turn round and
rvpvut or God Will scourge you an1 re.
move you out VI your place" For
saying these things the Lattet.day
Saints have been mobbed. For thr
hfst sixteen years Of their organisation
they were driven from place 20 pace,
anu In order 10 escape further trouble,
after their leading men had been
murdered for bearing this testimony,
they had 10 fiee Into the desert anu DO
what We have heard described this
afternoon,
want to say few words 10 the
Latter.day Saints: You sec now some
Of the things fulfilled which have been
predicted 10 you from the beginning.
You SEQ trouble, anu this tT,unle may
he Intermittent, but it will increase
from time 10 time, not only In our own |
land, but Ia other lands. For dod la.
told us that tho testimony Of His
servants should be- followed by the
testimony ot Judgments, Of earth.
quakos, Of pestllenue, OF famine, of |
lemprsts, aud tho 80, heRvlpg Itself |
beyond It's bounds The Latlor.day
Saints have been gathered out from the
various nations that they might escape
thesa Judgments. God mas said that
the time n near at hand when Baby.
Ion shall be overthrow II, ana the mes.
cage which came 20 you, my brethren
Rud sisters, IN the lands where you
lived was, "Comr out VI her, my PEG
pie, that ye be- not puttakers uf her Gins
and that 20 receive not Of her plagues.D
Tue wordu Of the Apostle John, la his
book Revelations, tho last book In the
New Testament, will bee fulfilled con.
eetning Babylon, AMI Babylon will be-
OyeTlhrown, IL Will not be- done all at
once, but Il 10 decreed ana will be-
fulfilled,
Toe whole land II now covered with
strikes, Combinations are formed,
some Df which are secret, We have
Tor very many years been urging upon
the Latturday Sniuts not 10 connect
themselves with secret combinations;
not 20 paTtake OF the sins OF Babylon,
but to be a stable people; TO be u people
lhat will keep alooi from those things
that are bound TO bring destruction
upon the land. There never was "a
tine whom wisdom was mOrp needed
among uH than 10 the present time.
We should exercise solt.c3utrol anu act
prudently and judiclously In these Try.
ing times, HvtDlBa conflict between
labor and capital, aud II is leading 10
ul0Odshed. VINO can tell where the |