Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-06-12


does the Spirit If The living God conc
upon them And wheu the spirit 81
G d comes upon msn they are changed.
Thy have eyes to see, and hey see cor
recily; they have ears 10 hear and they
hear correctly; and there Is removed
{ ON their souls that spirit If suspect N
ard OF doubt and quest oning, at
ing lest they he deceived II dsarms
deception We confidc in God and in
the doctr nGs oil His Gospel. and we are
not disturbed by anything that men my
sly or do. The ,roub t With many OF
the Lattei-day Saints i that they are
disturbed because OF what they. see
arout them, and what is said or done
The appearance OF things dislurbs them;
and they cannot receive this and they
cannot believe that. because tre ppear-
ances are not exactly right. Who cares
for appearances? Not those who erj Joy
the Holy Gnost; Tor they know what the
Lord require Of them; they know VIII 1t
is their duty and the resp niibiiii S that
are upon Them, and they lab,r accor5-
ingly. They see the beauty of tue Co.
pei. md they are not disturbed because
some man possibly has committed mu-
der, or adultery. or has become profane.
or because some iniluential man PET
baps among the peo,le, as set a b d
ex ample, They are not disturb d BY
these things, more than to express their
sorrow at a man in such position TALL
Ing into transgrts,ion 1t all men
turn away from the Cos pei f they viii;
let them apostauze and turn inhdel, or
DO whatever they please, we know that
the Gospel is true; we know that tn
Father and the Sou did appear TO the
hot Il L. t,a tifsa
| Pro, het Joseph was man Of God. We
know these tningS as we know the dark
| ness {, ON the light, the heat from the
cold. Our senses have all been con-
WINGED, and the Sprt and testimony OF
God abidts in the soul; that fountain Of
isht and revelation that comes from the
Lord to His children has been estat-
ished in our hearts, and It is sufficient
to give US understanding and light. And
it would be greatly incleased II we
would only be more devoted and faith
full in the service OF the Lord. But Lat
| ter-day SANS, in some INSTANCES have
returned TO their weaknesses, returned
| to their former habits aud to the ways Of
yore, and are partaking more or less OF
| the ways of the world, which are no, The
ways of G, d. Y ii will lin ], however.
that The Latter-day sam generally,
with their simp way of living, their un-
pretenlious houses oil worship, aud their
plain manner of serving the Lord, sill
| trust in the Lord. We may Ut show at
times the veneratlon that we ought to
| do. or proper respect in our house, OF
worsh p, because we go al our worship
very much the same as we 60 at her
| things. Tor the reason that we are in the
| service OF the Lord all the lime. We
| are in His service when we cultivate our
| fields. when we build our houses, when
| we 20 in the canyons and mountain or
when we are travelling on the a MS
| This reminds me OF what i, being put
lished in our da ly papers concerning the
early leaders OF the Church. When The
| Pioneers were on their j)uny to thi,
country, they had prayers in the mo u
! ing and prayers in the evening, where
ever they camped; and those who
listened 10 those prayers will remember
| also that they were suit. to the occa-
sion. We trusted ourselves TO the Lord
and asked His guidance. We Travelled
| in the wilderness, without knowing
where we w,ie gong We suppose
we were going to Upper California,
wherever that was. But the Lord moved
upon His servants TO move out at the
head Oh UnS pSupic d. iullSciS anu t0ty
moved prayerully. When they laid the
loun ta,ious of city, hey blessed the
ground; when they located field. they
| plesst d the earth and asked the blessing
OF the Lord upon it; when they built a
| tort to prot G. ihemselye, from the In
dams, they asked the blessing OF the
Lord upon it; and when III, y ravele d,
besides standing guard and taking every
| hi hoo
selves, they always looked to the Lord
and asked for His protection. 1t has
been So from then ull now. We have
never entered valley; we have never
| bro Ken ground Tor a plaza OF worsh D.;
we have never unC ertaken to settle an /,
| part OF the cOun ry, and We do not un-
| dertake to make our o.n homes and
our Hn farms, withoIt calling tor the
! bic sing OF tne Lord upon our labor.
| With all our weaknesses. with all our
| faults, we have trusted in the Lord, and
| the spirit OF the Gospel that has come
| upLn III has bound US together and made
US one. The result is, we have bee me
a remarkable people Tdougl we
spread out irom he,e into Me xicJ on the
| south and canada on the north, and in
| the stale, east anu west oil us, We. we
| look 10 the csnr +, aud we hold ogether
as a people. We are not round by
| oath, either We are not bJunl by
| band tina, cam 1t be broken; Tor The o.
| ligaliDni that are upIn US can be iul-
saken at any momen. We please. We
have mad. coven, II 5 directly with The
| Lord IN tue waters o. baptism, ana our
| oblis auon is - Hin; and watnever we
desire To be cJvenaul- oTeAHer, ami to
| desert the undertaking we have entered
into, we are at liberty 10 do So. We can
| 20 out as readily as we came in, # we
| will, and there is no danger OF losing our
| property, or beng punished with Coli
| peral punishment, or persecu,ed, or
bu ned at the stake. Just as ireeiy as
we came into the Chui CHI, tn ough the
door oil baptism, we may desert i and
at the same time We may remain here,
as our friends remain who come In
| among US Not one particle oil pressure
is exercised upon us. We are unit, d
and held together by these CONNIE II
| obligations that we have taken upon
ourselves with the Lord, 10 serve Him
and keep HIS commandment S; and we
axe looking Tor the Establishment OF His
Kingdom, and tAe coming OF the King.
| We expect 1t in the near future. We
understand. also that unless We are pre-
pared at the coming OF the Son OF God,
Il will be sorrowful day for us. If we
| h,,,a NOT bent HIS comma "a "A ueuts. e u,,.