The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-22
SUNDAY WITH THE CHOIR.
SANG AT THE SERVICES AT THE
MORMON MISSION.
An Address by Apostle Heber j.
Grant-The Farewell Concert in
the Evening.

The San Francisco papers of Monday
| contained extended accounts of the
services held at the Mormon mission,
on Sunday when the choir attended
and Apostle H. j. Grant spoke.
The Chronicle said:
A glimpse of the solemnity, the
earnestness which characterizes the
service held in the great Mormon tenn
tple at Salt Lake city was given yester-
day to the vast concourse which at
tended the services of the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at
Metropolitan hall. Although the visit
ing members of the great choir num-
Der but one-third of those who take
part in the home services, the effect
and the work was so far above any
thing ever heard in San Francisco that
it was revelation in praise service.
The opening chorus was the ''Hosan-
nah" written for and sung at the dedi-
cation of the Mormon temple, which
has cost millions of dollars and was
forty years in course of construction
With outstretched hands Joseph
Shepherd, who with Henry S. Tanner
coast, offered the morning prayer, and
instead of using the usual form said.
Join with me in calling upon the
Lord" The choir sang "Hark, Hark,
My Soul
Apostle Heber ]. Grant, who reached
here yesterday from Salt Lake, was
then introduced and said: I'm sending
missionaries into the world we nave
no desire other than the salvation OF
mankind; no desire but that the
world may know and understand what
WI
reputation given us by an unknoW1ng
public, but by our own doctrine, our
lives and our work The tree should
be known by the fruit it yields. We
wish to promulgate the plan of life
and salvation as we understand ii"
After assuming that the majority OF
listeners believed in God and Jesus
Christ as the Savior of mankind, Elder
Grant read the articles of faith Of the
Mormon church He anllyZsd them as
he read ard explained that while the
Mormons believed in God, Jesus Christ
and the Holy Ghost, they did Tot be-
lieve that all three were one.
He continued: I'VE believe God to
be a person having parts, body and
passions as the man of today" and in
support of the assertion quoted from
first Hebrews, which tells of man be-
ing created in the image of God. He
teaches atonement through Christ, but
does not confine its work to the living
and those who have heard the gospel.
He said: Nearly all the work done
in our great temple is for the atone
ment of the countless souls who have
died without even hearing of the gos-
pei. We claim that when Christ arose
from the tomb and before he assembled
into heaven, he preached redemption
to erring souls buried about him. In
support of this he read from John ii:
I'LL.
The speaker held that if vicarious
atonement for the dead were denied
then the cornerstone of redemption
was swept away, for Jesus performed
the vicarious work for mankind by lay
ing down his life. Baptism for the
dead, he contended, was known in the
ancient days.
Then followed an interesting account
of the belief in regard to the visit of
Elijah to Joseph Smith, whose pro-
phetic words, he said, had been full
filled to the letter. He felt that, like
Jesus, their prophet had been maligned
and misrepresented, but, like Jesus, the
time was coming when he would re-
ceive all the justice that was his due.
He recounted the sufferings, the per-
notwithstanding all that, when a de-
nGand was made by the United States
after the Mormons had been driven
from Missouri for 500 men to fight for
California, the men were furnished,
and that was because our religion says
that our constitution is God-given, and
the Mormon loves his country next to
his God"
This sentiment brought round of
applause, which Elder ;Ir Int said he
did not want TO call forth, as he want
ed his faith investigated and looked
upon coldly, and not under any ex-
element; but it was hard for him t.
speak of the religion which he loved
SO dearly without giving vent to his
feelings.
He referred to the belief III healing
by the laying on of hands, bur claimed
no personal power. 1t was God r3rk-
ing for humanity through his agents
Elder Grant spoke of his own lie
and experiences, of his having been
blessed when a child, of his relations
with Brigham Young, of the experience
of his brother born of another mother,
for his father was a polygamist, who
had just fulfilled a promise, a proph-
ecy made that he would come into the
fold. He spoke of the fact that the
Mormon church was the only one cast
out of the parliament of religions at
the Worlds Fair, but he looked uIon
it as the fulfillment of prophecy.
He closed by reading affidavits from
the Book of Mormon and said that the
Latter-day Saints had heard the voice
of the True Shepherd, and that Jesus
Christ would come again in person to
reign over the world, and all the Nor
mons wanted was to earn at the end
the praise, well done, thou good and
faithful servant"
The choir sung the HalIelujah chorus
from the Messiah and the service
closed with -benediction by Mr.. Shep-
herd.
THE FAREWELL CONCERT.
A crowded house last night showed
San Francisco's appreciation of the
work of the Mormon tabernacle choir.
1t was the goodbye" concert and the
adieu was said by the vast audience
Joining in the "Star Spangled Banner
with the singers. Evan Stephens, the
leader. turned around and waved the
baton for the unframed choir-the mu-
sic lovers who had grown enthusiastic
and were quite ready to "join in the