The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-10-07
PRESIDENT CANNON.

this people must come from the priest
hood.
PRESIDENT CANNON.
President George G. Cannon, who
fellowed, said the hopes and anticipa-
tons of the Latter-day Saints were
different from these of any other re-
ligionists. They looked for a mfllennial
reign, q literal paradise, the rejuven-
alton OF the earth. They believed this
would be brought about by men
through the guidance of God. Other
people expected God to do all this for
them.
The Saints. he said. know that they
must depend largely upon themselves.
People who do not believe this and are
idle and indolent viii be removed from
the flock When people have been
giEen a mission and do not seek TO ac-
compllsh ii the Lords spirit will be
Withdrawn from them. 1t is individual
salvation that must be wrought out,
and God viii not take away a mans
agency. He viii suffer man TO do good
CT evil and Satan will not be bound for
the man who yields 10 his blardish-
meats. Cain did the bidding of Satan
and was destroyed. The way to bind
Satan is 10 determine not to listen to
him, fer God viii not bind him as long
as people are willing to listen to his
seductive voice. There was once a. race
50 righteous that Satan had no power
over them. It was the righteousness
Of those people that held him in bond
age, but elsewhere his sway was as
unlimited as before.
Before the glorious events Of the last
days, there Will he widespread Ge5tiuc-
ton ana calanities as there we're in
former days. There Will be literal fire
and but few men viii be left. In Great
Britain, mere distinguish as an ex-
ponent Of aesthetics and a companion
+ OF nob9emeE. was convicted of q crime
so abominable, that under the old law
II was punishable by death. Since his
( liberation he is received in society and
is writing a book. Such crimes are in
truding themselves even in this land,
and the only way this VIII be wiped out
( Will be by the wrath of God.
The Sairts must live pure lives. There
( is at present TOO much looseness
among the Saints. Tales reach the
! presidency OF children being born five
( or even three months after marriages
( This IS disgTa ceful to the Latter-day
( Saints. Parents do not put sufficient
guard over their daughters. Even in
; France the daughters are guarded
I more carefully than they are some
( times here. There is too much famil-
/ iarity between the sexes. There are
some places where a daughter is no
! safer than she would be among q patch
( of wolves. There are men here who
prey on the other sex, and the young
men of Zion associate with them. Re-
: Gently q circumstance to the ears of
! the presidency which was appalling
/ This condition must cease, or the iuds-
ment Of God viii be felt among this
! people.
/ What has been said is no theory or
Z eNaEger9tion. 1t is easy TO see how
little Importance is attached to these
crimes. That is the fearful aspect of
IL. The fact that men such as have
been referred to are not stamped with
+ disgrace shows to what an extent these
/ sins have gone. Yet the poor girl who
thus falls is forever ostracised from
! society Man CT these questions are
held much more accountable than
1 woman, for they take advantage of her
( tenderness and weakness.
4 II the Saints want their children TO
live through he thousand years of
i peace. such crimes must be abolished.
F, for the children of the Saints live it
! will be because they are pure. 1t can
( he seen on every hand that families
guilty Of such iniSd0ings are percept-
ibly thinned out. A cleansing process is
! going on and viii continue The end
4 approaches and Christ is about to come
through the clouds Of heaven.
President Cannon then referred to
I the day when the wheat and tares
would be separated, and the necessity
] Of binding Satan through the righteous
( ness Of their lives. We wanted to see
( a regeneration among the Saints, 50
that the evil in their hearts would be
/ crushed out He commented on re-
| baptism. which he referred to as a fall
lacy. for it required repentance and not
] baptism to save
Speaking OF the appointments yester-
day, the speaker, several of the priest
/ hood had informed him that the names
of the new apostles had been revealed
to him.
President woodruff then made his
brief address given above. He an