Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-06-09

Spirit Of God. Your faith Is exercised,
you pray earnestly to the Lord. and He
seems at times to be near unto you,
you call In the Elders. they are led In a
certain way, and they promise life unto
the one who Is afflicted, vet you see
this same sick one fail and die. How
does this happen' The faith OF men Is
tried In this respect. Is it because God
does lot hear prayer that your sick arc
not healed2 Is Il because lie has
turned deaf ear to our entrea,ies that
lie takes away from as those we love ?
No, Il is not. Il Is for some divine
lesson lie desires to impress upon our
minds that lie permits these things to
occur--someiImes perhaps 70 try our
faith and see II we will be true 20 Him
under all circumstances. In administer.
ing to your sick you sometimes see that
they recover for short time under your
administration, and time and time again
the administration OF the Elders and the
faith they exercise seems to give new
life to the one afflicted; aud yet after
repeated trials and the repeated cxet.
else Of faith, we are sometimes led by
the Spirit to pray TO the Lori that He
would rather take the afflicted one from
us than that hc should be continued In
his suffering, aud that we should con.
tinuc to hold on TO him by the exercise
Of faith
Il Is proper for as to feel this way. Il
Is right for as IN our prayers 10 God not
to set up our wills and our desires In
opposition to Him. but when We have
expressed to His, with an the faith
which we are capable Of exercising, our
desires, either concerning our friends or
ourselves. then Il Is the duty Of every
l.attcr.day Saint to say as the Savior
said when lie prayed that the cup might
pass by Him, mot my will but thine,
be DONE" and even though Affections
come the Lord will pour out upon us
Of His Holy Spirit, so that we may sub.
missiycly yield to His righteous will
and reap the blessings which even
sorrow and trouble bring upon Us.
Better Ear to do this than by our faith
as ! believe has been the case among
the Latier.day Saints-fcscue the sick
from death, and yet see these same
children who have been saved by our
faith suffer something that Is worse than
death, for some children who have ap.
parenlly been snatchcd from the grave
by the faith exercised by the servants OF
God and their parents, have IN time lost
the faith and have brought sorrow and
alilciion TO the family TO which they
belong There are things Is this life lar
worse than death. There are sins which
burden our hearts with grief far worse
than to follow to their last resting place
the bodies OF our loved ones. Il Is
better by far that we take to the tomb
our loved ones aud bury them IN their
purity and holiness than that by our
faith and our constant wrestling with
God We save them from temporal death
and consigu them TO an eternal punish.
ment.
testify TO you, my brethren and
sisters, that the Lord Is a God who Is
near unto US. lie hears and answers
prayer, and lie gives to His children
who serve Him faithfully the blessings
which are for their temporal as well as
their eternal prosperity and happiness
| would admonish the young people 10
seek Him while lie is near, There are