The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-01
Az the Tabernacle.

the tabernacle yesterday.
The services opened by the choir |
singing the hymn "Sweet is the word, |
my Cod" after which Elder Seymour
B. Young offered prayer.
Elder George Teasdale then addressed
the congregation upon his experiences
while on mission in Mexico. from
which he had lately returned. There
are many hardshtps and prlvations to be
met with in laboring among a strange
people in a strange land, but inexper1-
| enced as he was, the speaker knew that
| he had been benefited and blessed ex-
| ceedingly by preaching the word of
God. He was also sure that his fellow
! laborers appreciated their experiences
while laboring in Mexico. When the
| speaker first embraced the gospel OF
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and
became member Of the church, he was
| looked upon with contempt and suffered
| all kinds of revilement. He was thought
| to have been led astray, to have been
deluded by false doctrines, and his
friends and relatives said it was dis
grace, the effects of which would never
be erased from their memory.
Back in the dim and blood-stained
days Of history, when a dominant
church was known, it was not thought
lOI Llduy pcOple ~ NC put "
death because of disbelief in creed,
rigid and unreasonable to the minds of
men of intellect, and if that church was
today as it then was, / suppose there
would be as many more put to
death now as there were then.
But as it is, in these modern
days, the days of intellectual
enlightenment and civilization, there
have been many of the Saints whose
lives have been laid down because of the
practicing of doctrines revealed to them
by God. Even yet the Latter-day Saints
are looked upon with contempt and
calumny, and regarded as followers of a
false prophet but the time will come
when the world will recognize the creed
of Mormonism as the true and living
word of God. Jesus Christ advocated
the principles of truth and righteous
ness in the beginning and what was the
result? He was an object of contempt.
What was the result of the preaching
. of those same doctrines by our prophet.
, Joseph Smith? He was slain in cold
blood. There must be something of a
very baneful nature in being led by
false doctrines, because of the way in
! which an advocate of unpopular princi-
pies is treated. The world calls us de-
luders of the people; if this be true and
, the rest of the world are endowed with
the true orthodox religion, it seems to
me that they should not waste breath
e in reviling us, but they should ignore
Y us. But the question is this: We, are
: individuals, we have right to think
d freely and to retain or reject whatever
e religion we like or dislike. The philo
d sopny of the revealed religion of Goo
n is that we come from God: that we are
y surrounded by certain circumstances
r which tend to give us force of char
V acter by renouncing the bad and re
II ioaiuiuU rho cynn6 that
o a way to eternal salvation, or as the
f prophets say, that we may determine
). what kind of a resurrection We shall
receive Therefore my friends look t
= yourselves that you do not become thu
h victims of delusion by harboring harsl
/ judgment of your neighbors. Tn
world says that the Latter-day Saint
n are victims of delusion. Is it true
- Is it a delusion to put your trust il
;, God to believe in Jesus as the Twin:
- Christ? To repent of your sins and lea
l.. a better life? If this is a delusion, m.
friends, it is a blessed one-one il
which the victims are benefited exceed
= ingly.
o I am interested in Mexico. The PEG
e pie are patient set who have receives
l. the word of God and are happy for il
l. 1t is that class of people that hav
y built up the kingdom too. That piec
% of land upon the frontier, called by u
W the prohibited zone, Wnlcn is the CIVIC
e, ling line between the United States an
S, Mexico, has received the tLatter-da
n Saints as if in acknowledgment. of ou
r. sincerity We have been given the RICH
to found colonies upon that land, from
the governor of Mexico; but as we
Inc man has been free to own land i
THAT territory, simply because the Mex
,e lean people are a jealous people an
l. Twill not trust Americans, because Q
c. hurts inflicted upon them by the Amer
to leans long ago. The people of Mexic
ID are improving. They have a meeting
M house, in which they congregate
hear the word of God; and not lon
H. lago they held fair, in which every
Thing made or raised in that countr
4 Inv that peopIe was exhibited. Th
ne people are becoming self-sustainin:
u land what will be the result of all tn
20 Industry? The Lord God will pour OF
a. Ibis blessings upon them, as the prt
f. lphets of the house OF Israel have pre-
ct ldicted.
a. NV brethren and sisters, let me sa
IL Ito you that my testimony is that tn
f. lis the church of the true and Twin
a. IGod. and I raise my voice to him an
ar TASK him to bless us all collectivel
u land individually, that we may continl
az Ito walk in the paths of truth an
IT. Righteousness and be eternal
re blessed
ak Elder Brigham Young then said
IT. presumed it was a great pleasure
n. Eli present to hear such good tidinl
ce from the land to the far south, ar
of lhe hoped that they would one and q
nd lrejoice in the success with which ii