The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-20

main at a, distance and watch the pro
ceedings through windows, and oper
doors.
In England the elders are now can
vassing towns and villages in a syste
matte manner, and are DISTRIBUTING
pamphlets and tracts to all who are
Wiling TO receive them. In few
cases, the elders have been able to Sc
cure churches ITO hold services in, anC
when this is the case, almost always q
good impression is left upon the PEG
pie.
The influence of the Holy Spirit pre-
walls in power among the messengers
OF truth in foreign lands The work is
performed with. zeal and fidelity and
people I'm all that is praiseworthy and
noble. They seem to realize as all
Saints should, that their mission is not
limited to this world but extends into
the life to come.
y. II. Roberts spoke next He said
mat IT would be well for the Saints to
pefuse the scriptures often, ''for in
them We think We have eternal life
In them Will be found that spiritual
vIigor and encouragement which will
lead men steadily on to the haven of
eternal life
The Apostle to the Gentiles says:
30 speak We and so do as they that
liberty" -
One. of the most beautiful things ut
! tered IN this chapter is the reference
] TO the gospel or Christ as the perfect
law of liberty. 1t is beautiful because
the most splendid thing in the world
! Is liberty. Among the youth of Zion
! there is disposition TO look upon the
true Christian life as q life of bond
| age, barring from those things which
! dazzle or infatuate the mind This is
disposition which, if it be not chang
ed, will lead to very serious results.
The only way to remedy the evil is to
show them the liberty of the gospel.
1t is the purpose Of omnipOtence not
to bind men but TO set them free 1t
is not to make men miserable but to
bring about their eternal happiness.
The golden stream of liberty runs
| broad and free throughout the teach
ingS of Christ. He said that if they
would follow in his word they should
learn the truth and the truth should
make them free. The very first prin-
ciple of the gospel is faith and then
in logical sequence comes repentance.
The fruit Of these principles and the
ordinance of baptism is the remission
or sin; and he who obtains this is
made for the first time Gods free
man No kind of bondage is so gall
ing to bear or distressing to the
mind as that which comes from the
consciousness OF being outside the
favor of God. The bondage of giving
way TO prohigate habits and vicious
passions is worse than the bondage of
iron bands or prison walls. The beauty
and blessing which comes with a con-
sciousness of freedom from sin is the
very essence and sweetness of liberty.
man with such an assurance is hap
pier in dungeon cells than the man
of sin is when fettered with the re-
membrance of evil deeds. Paul says
10 the Corinthians that no fornicator
or idolatrous man shall enter the
kingdom. But the shackles of sin had
since been cast from the Corinthians
by the gospel Of freedom. Have you
never seen a soul, which, struggling
to be free, is only the more entangled
and engaged? Have you never seen
one who has cried in despair that he
would give life itself to undo some
horrid deed which is forever clinging
to his haunted fancy? Only those who
have seen the agonies of such a soul
can realize how blessed it is to be
free from the consciousness Of guilt.
At one time when services were being
held in a prison, one of its inmates
turned ashy white and almost tainted
in his seat All this came from the
quotation of that passage which says
that a murderer hath not eternal life
abiding in him.
There is only one relief from so IN
sufferable a bondage. 1t is the gospel
that brings freedom to mankind for
that is it's mission and spirit. Yet this |
can only be effected in one way
through the blessed channel of knowl- |
edge. The Saints will be united with |
the Son of God and this Will come Of |
the fact that they themselves are |
united in oneness of knowledge. In |
ancient times it was a. disgrace among |
the Saints not to know of the doctrine |
of God. Paul said that he spoke OF |
their ignorance to their shame. 1t |
was TO their shame because they pri- |
mariiy had The right to that knowl-
edge.
Mans vision is clouded in obscurity
and it is impossible for many to re- |
concile all the truths that have been
heralded. The Saints can only know
that they are true because God has
communicated it to them. The time
will come, however. when the Saints
in their perfected manhood and wo-
will see a beautiful harmony
in all that has been revealed. PERHAPS
the Saints sometimes feel as did |
Adam when offering his sacrifices to
the Lord. Al angel came to him and
enquired why he was thus engaged.
Adam replied that he knew not fur
Their than that God had commanded
1t. And then the angel vouchsafed the
knowledge that the sacrifice that
smoked upon the altar was typical of
that meridian day Offering which was
to redeem the world. But while
Adam knew not the philosophy of this
he knew that God commanded it and
felt that some great significance at
tached to it. So today the Saints NAV
not be able to understand many
things that God has revealed.
But the followers of Christ can
know of their truth and in
the obedience that comes from
such a knowledge there is nothing
slavish, but the purest sunshine of lib
erty and freedom. The union to be
found among the Saints of God rests
not upon dictation, but grows out of a
of the things of God.
In the course of the gospel comes
he gift of the holy ghost, bestowed to
give more liberty to man by illumining
lis mind and revealing to him the
Kings of the Father. Paul declares
hat We are made ministers of the
spirit Where the spirit of God pre-
rails there is liberty to be found.
There is no break in that beautiful
bread of liberty running through the |
gospel of Christ. 1t is always the
same. 1t is always the standard of
liberty, the emblem of harmony and
lnion.
All will unite in saying that two and