Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-12-12

the duties that we place upon them, OF
course they grieve us and we do not APP
prove OF their acts, though we rejoice
when they turn again and endeavor to
keep the commandments that we give
to them. AS we rejoice in the humility
and obedience of our children, so does
our Heavenly Father rejoice in our hu
miiity and obedience. And In all ages
of the world, whenever the people OF
God have been humble, praYerful, and
dilgent in keeping the commandments
OF God, they have been blessed and
prospered, they have been sustained by
God, and all has been well with them.
But when they have become filled with
pride and with love OF the things OF
this world, and when they have neglect
ed the commandments of God, He has
had to punish them, and many times has
had to humble them TO the very dust 1t
was necessary that He should do so.
We do not punish our children because
we fail TO love them. On the contrary,
j. is our very love for our children and
the desire we have for their welfare that
causes us to punish them. 1t is a very
painful thing for us to administer pun
ishment upon those we love, and yet we
prove our love to our children by COR
reciing them. II we allowed them to go
their own way, and grow up i'll careless
ness, and from carelessness into wrong
doing, instead OF our love being genuine
| it would be the exact opposite. OF
| course, it is necessary TO exercise char.
| ity. We find il recorded in the scrip
lures that il we give all that we have to
| the poor, and even our bodies to be
burned, and have not charity, 1t shall
profit us nothing. This lack OF charity
IS something that many are guilty OF.
There is disposition on the part Of
many to find fault, to criticise, and 10
complain OF the actions OF our brethren.
We find, because OF recent events, that
| there is a great deal of talk in some
| quarters. All | wish to say to the Lat
ter day Saints is, that il YOU keep the
commandments OF God and obey the
whsperings OF the Holy Spirit, you will
be founded upon the rock, and there will
be no danger whatever, when the storms
come, no matter of what kind they may
be, but you will be able 10 withstand
| them. 1he keeping of the command
mends OF God is the foundation stone
upon which we should build the struc.
ture OF our lives. We are the. architects
of our own lives. We have our own free
agency. II matters not TO me what any
man or set OF men may do, il keep the
commandments oil God do know tina,
! will be saved and exalted in the
| presence OF my Heavenly Father.
| Speaking OF the necessity Of coupling
| works with our faith, ] will read some
passages from the Bible:
Not every one that saith unto Me. Lord
Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven:
| but he that doeth the will OF my Father which
| is in heaven. Matt. vii, Al.
The promise is to those who do the
will OF the Father. Those who fail to
do the will OF the Father, though they
| make professions and proclaim their ties
timony to the divinity OF this work, have
no promise made to them | do not
know that | can do better than to read
this entire chapter:
Judge not, that We be not judged.
For with what judgment ye judge. ye shall be
| judged: and with what measure ye meie, it
shall be measured to you again.
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in
| thy brothers eye, but considerest not the beam
| that is in thine own eye}
Or how wilt thou say TO thy brother. let me
| pull out the mote out OF thine eye; and, behold,
a beam is in thine own eye3
Thou hypocriie, first cast out the beam GU,
| OF thine own eve and then shalt thou see
clearly to cast out the mote out OF thy brother
| eye.
Give not that which is holy unto the dogs,
neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest
| they trample them under their feet. and turn
| again and rend you.
| Ask, and it shall be given you seek and We
| shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto
| you.
For every one that aslseth receve,h; and
| lao, h. ~
eth ii shall be opened.
| Or what man is there ofyou, whom II his son
ask bread, will he give him a stones
! Or II he ask fish, will he give him serpent
lfye then being evil, know how TO give good
| gifts unto your children, how much more shall
| YOUR Father which sin heaven give good things
| to them that ask him?
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would tina,
| men should do TO you. do ye even so to them:
| ior this is the law and the prophets.
| Enter sc in at the strait gate; Tor wide is the
| gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to
destruction. and many there be which so in
| thereat:
Because strui; is the gate, and narrow IS the
way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be
| that find 1t.
| Beware OF false prophets, which come to you
4 in sleeps clothing. bu, nwardy they are raw
enlng wolve,.
We shall know them by their fruits. Do men
| gather grapes Of thorns, or figs OF thstles1
Even so every good tree bringeth forth good
| fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil
| fruit.
| A good tree canno; bring forth evil fruit
neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good
fruit.
Every tree that hringeth no, forth good fruit
| Is hewn down. and cast into the fire.
Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord