The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-03

number of church officials were pres
ent at both services, the venerable
President Woodruff being on the
stand with Counselor Joseph Z. Smith.
The music, as usual, was excellent.
Presiding Bishop w. B. Preston was
the first speaker at the morning ses-
sion. He said there was an important
work for all the Saints. They should
learn % know The voice of God and
understand his will. Then they should
make this apply to their everyday
work. The world has gone astray.
There is need for honesty and truth
in business dealings. The Saints should
often meet together and hear good
counsel. When they have heard they
NshouId do what is right. The Saints
are the best people on earth, so far as
he knows, and they are highly blessed
by the Lord, but they are not perfected
in the gospel. Life is too short to
waste our time and talents on the tol-
lies and frailties of the world though
they are enticing. There are many
commandments the Saints do not Keep.
There are many who do not observe
the law OF tithing. If they do the Lord
will pour out his blessings as he has
promised. Keep the Sabbath; remem-
Der the poor; prayers should be said
every morning and evening, and over
the food. The fast days should be
observed. The blessings of the Father
cannot be gained without working day
after day 10 secure them Some Saints
will be left without them. They seem
to think they can drift in the popular
current and get blessings without
work Train up a. child in the way
he should go" Parents are not giving
enough attention to training their
children, and they want to run wild,
going here, there and everywhere, and
doing everything but that which the
gospel requires them to. Accounts
should be kept straight with God and
with their fellow men, so that in the
next world it may not be necessary
TO answer for sins that should have
been answered for day by day.
Apostle John Henry Smith enlarged
upon the necessity of parents training
their children n the gospel. If they
are taught the proper requirements in
their daily lives these things become a
part of them. If every day they hear
the blessings asked on the food which
they eat, they have respect and rev
erence for God. We can scarcely i'm
agine the force of example on those
with whom We nlingle. Men should
not use profanity. Many who are
leaders in the world, when they are
with men alone use profanity which
they would not use in the presence Of
women. Il man who uses no profanity
may be led to it by associating with
g ose who do. A man may learn to
Be tobacco through association. We
Should be faithful to the covenants we
have made, a praying people. a Wo-
man may wed a man who does not be-
1ieve as She does, but her Nth will
impress her with the SacredneSS of the
belief in God. Family prayer is i'm
portant. Father, mother and children
can respect each other more with it,
and there can be a, full realization of
the sacredness Of the marital relations
and the peace and tranquility of the
home. By 1t we may establish in our
own homes a little of that paradise
we nope to enjoy in the world beyond
the vail. There should be attention to
these practical things. That man is
considered 10 be grateful who thanks
those who do him kindness. He who
does this should be as willing to re-
turn thanks t. God for the blessings
he has bestowed upon US. There is no
bnc ed of hypocrisy. If a man believes
in God, if he believes that his blessings
come from that high source, then there
As nothing belittling or hypocritical in
returning thanks by prayer. If we do
not pray we deny ourselves many
In that day when we shall stand for
judgment we will see pictured on the
elements the history of our past lives
and we will know we should have done
better. We are taught in the knowl-
edge and wherein we have been neg
lectfuI we viii have to make repara-
tiOn. Teach your children to pray and
no son or daughter will be lost from
the home.
Afternoon GaxSion
The choir sang with its usual excel
lence the well-known and popular
hymn, 20, My Father" which always
reaches the heart Of an audience.
President MILFORD Woodruff was the
first speaker. He quoted as his text:
For I am persuaded that neither
death nor life, nor angels, nor princi-
qualities, nor powers, nor things pres
Nnt, nor things TO come, nor height,
nor depth, nor any other creature,
shall be able to separate US from the
love of God, which is in Christ Jesus
our Lord. Romans X: SO and 80.
He said that one of the morning
speakers, Bishop Preston, stated that
the saints desired to know the mind
and will of God from the presidency.
Gods will primarily is that the saints
should sense the responsibility of their
position and should realize that Gods
Their by principalities nor the powers
OF darkness. The people should be
awake TO the signs of the times; they
should see the hand of God in the ter
rible judgment of the cyclones, storms
and hurricanes that are sweeping over
the land.
Each Latter-day Saint must account
at the last day for whatever he does
tn these troublesome times. 1t is the
Lords will that those who have been
blessed with posterity should instruct
their children in the fear of God. 1t
IS the duty of parents to teach them
20 pray, and teach them from their
earliest days in the principles of truth. !
The prophet Joseph's career was
short on the earth. but he achieved /
much in that limited time. The people /
are in the midst of great events. The /
prophesies of Isaiah, Ezekiel and other /
seers OF old are about to be fulfilled. |
Great events are at the doors, and the /
saints should watch ana pray. 1t Is OF
the greatest Importance that the /
saints should be united and cease to |
dispute upon points of doctrine. If /
the saints will keep turning within !
them the witness of truth there will be /
no division, and Israel will be prepared |
for whatever events may come
President Joseph F. Smith then ad- I
dressed the audience. He took as a
text the words Of Paul: For what /
man knoweth the things Of man save
the spirit of man which is in him;
even so the things of God knoweth no /
man but the spirit of Cod
The Latter-day saints Should pos