Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-10-19

were laboring for the ancient order o.
things. They wanted the Gospel as
taught by the prophets and apostles, as
! did In my youth. Well, without dwell.
ing upon this, will say that the FIRST
thirty days after | arrived In Hereford.
shire baptized firty-iive preachers and
several hundred members, and ! had in
my hands all the chapeis or houses
licensed for worship according TO law
We brought IN two thousand 10 about
eight months labor. Many OF these
people had been looking and praying
Tor his very work, and they were pray.
ing for IL when went there. took no
honor to myself with regard to this mat
ter, never felt that | could. All we
have to do Is to follow the diciaiion Of
the Spirit OF the Lord, and give God the
honor and the glory Of u, We did a
good work there and God blessed US
From there we went 10 London.
Brothers Heber {. Kimball and George
a. Smith and myself preached and es-
tablished the first branch OF the Church
In ,the city OF London. / rcjo'ccd very
much In my labOrs In lierelJrdshire.
Clouctstcrshae and Worcestershire,
and thousands Of those that were bap-
tired there are In Utah. We had quite
number Of Bishops in this Territory
that baptized at that time. The
Youngest baptized there was Brother
Rowberry who was bishop Of Tooele.
lie was only boy At that time.
want to refer to one Circumstance
that took place while In that mission,
and DO Il as an example OF the L@rd's
dealings with us In matters pefiainir.. TO
temporal matters. John Benbow was a
noble man. lie was like an English
lord, as rich a man, ! suppose as ever
came into the Church. lie had not
been baptized 4 ,Ionth, | do not thin,
whcr he came into a little sitting room
with his wife, and he probably scent
three quarters OF on hour IN telling me
that he had been reading In the New
re-.ai1ent how in the days OF re
Apostles they sold al TER possessions
and laid them II the Apostles isct. ard
he said he felt IN was his duty to fulfill
that law and he wanted TO do Il. I
listened 10 him patiently and when he got
through It took me perhaps half an hour
to tell him the difference between our POI
silion today and the position OF the
Apostles In thatday. lgave himto under.
stand that God had not sent me to Eng'
land totake care of his gold, his horses his
cows and his property; lie had sent me
there to preach tho Gospel told him,
however. that the Lord Won ID accept OF
hts sacrifice, and that whenever he
could do good, he should do IL, he
should assist the poor. help publish the
Book OF Mormon, etc. Now, what
would have been the result It had
taken the other course, aud said, YES
give ME your property and ! viii take
care oliil" Why, he would probably
have apos,alised Not only that, but
there would have been one foolish
Apostle, who would have been a suitable
candidate for apostasy also. But was
that any temptation to me' No, II was
not. II would not have been to any
Elder who had enough Of the Spirit Of
God to know the difference between
hundred thousand pounds OF money
and part In the first resurrection, with
power to pass by the anges and the
gods to exaliation and glory. and stand
IN the presence OF God and the Lamb
forever and forever.
name these things TO show that there
was people prepared for this work
Go where you would aud you would find
spifits vi this kind. That Is why this
people have come up here from the
various nations OF the earth. We have
the Gogpel OF Christ abroad in all
nations today as itf AS we have opDor.
tunity, and we have got to continue
this work. The Lord Is going to cut
His work short In righteousness; and as
have said before. however Insignificant
this people may be in the eyes Of the
world the God Of heaven holds us re-
sponsible for preaching this Gospel TO
every nation under heaven, and we have
IL TO do OF we will be damnad. We
cannot avoid this. v'hyl Because, a.
Paul sa's. "Ws- Is ITO me Il | preach
not tic Gospel" There Is but oae
Gospel; never has been but one, aud
never will L.; and pe..l says, "8ut
though ;, or an ars.l irom heaven
preach any o.her Grapel unto you ,han
that which We have prrhc'. al unto you,
L. him he accuFsed.' That Gospel, We
sair,s = the living God, and the word,
is Ia our hands, sent TO US by the MINIS.
iTal.ons Of ange.s-tLe same Gospel that
was taught from Adam to Christ, and
from CT ist down to our day and gener.
alton, when God has had people on
the earth. have great desire myself
for the welfare Of the Latter day Saints.
We hare a great work to perform.
Before | close. want to say a few
words TO the Apostles and 10 the
Saints ofGod. ! want to say something
about the devil. The devil, in the days
OF the Savior, got one Apostle to deny
his Lord and sell HIM Tor thirty pieces
OF silver. But when Judas eyes were
opened to see what he had done, he
did not prize those thirty pieces of
silver, but went out and hung himself.
Is that devil deadi Has l.uciier, the son
Of the morning, gone out OF existencep
No; he Is here today, lie is In the
midst OF this people; and II there are any
people under heaven that Luciier with
all tho fallen angels that dwell on the
earth are laboring to destroy, they are
these I.atter.dAy saints. II was so an.
GENTLY; It will be SO until lie who holds
the keys OF death and he'll shall bind
Satan and shut him up. Until that hour
he will labor for our destruction.
want to say to these Apostles that have
seen days OF trouble with the quorum OF
the Twelve. have referred many times
to the days in Kirkland, and my heart
has had great deal OF pam over those
affairs. There the devil labored with
the Apostles and caused a good
share OF them to apostatize, One balf
OF them apostatized, and some OF the
Others came pretty near IT, The signers
or witnesses TO the Book OF Mormon
Oliver Cowdery David Whitmer aud
Martin Harris-all apo5tatized from the
Church OF Jesus Christ, though they
never denied the Book OF Mormon. la