Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-11
DISCOURSE
it, semLAnnnal Conference In the Tobernac Salt
ssarea M Utah Tuesday morning. October 5th 1897. by
FlpER FRANKLIN D. RICHARDS,

UP principles of intelligence, and rcyel- |
alton, of the knowledge of things past
and present and TO come. There are
great many other religions in the
world, and some very powerful ones.
For instance, there is the Mohamme-
dan religion, and those people have a
faith of their own. and they are very
numerous, about 175,000,00O, they esti-
mate, believe. They have their
prophet, they have their faith. they
have their ideas OF futurity, and they
are "A sort OF cousin in the relation
to father Abraham's family. His son,
Ishmael, and lsaacs son, Esau, in
their seed, constitute great portion
of that class of people. They have had
apostles raised up among them. from
the seed of Abraham as they say,
and they entertain n certain amount
of faith. In fact the promise of the
Lord. wherein he said he knew Abra-
ham, that he would command his chill
dren after him, is manifest in that
people. in that they believe in one God.
and they claim one prophet, Moham-
med. Then. again. we look to the
eastern world, In China. for instance,
where are said to be about four hun
dred millions of human beings and
they believe in doctrines given them
by Confucius and by Buddhah. and
others. But those four hundred mil
lions are given up to the worship of
idols. They are idolaters. with the
rest: and SO we may go on over the
world, and find scores of these great
branches of religion that have had
their heads and chiefs, their faiths
and beliefs. What ] want to call your
special attention to In this connection.
is this: Has any one of them ever had
a man of their number pass through
death. rise again from the grave and
declare to them the principles of hay
ing obtained through him or by him,
resurrection-been lifted up to i'm
mortality through their faith? We do
not find 1t in history anywhere in the
earth that they have ever had such
testimony or evidence OF n resurrec-
tion and Immortality beyond the
grave. All that they have given to
them is the exercise of certain faith
that lasts them through this life. But
the Gospel of the Latter-day Saints,
which is the Gospel of the former
day Saintsas well, is different from any
believed In by any other people as TO
all these things. and people who be-
lieve in the real Gospel of Jesus Christ,
the Gospel that He instituted. have
something more and better and beyond
what any other portion of the human
family have to look to.
The great Captain of our salvation
went into the grave with marks in His
hands and in His feet and in His side.
and He came forth out of that grave
| IN tnTte NuNS, anu ne ulu TpN so AWAY
| without being seen. lie made Himself
| known, communicated with them, as
| ISOLATED with them, in fact, and gave
| them n certain knowledge of the truth
| of the sayings he uttered Himself to
| Moses a good many years before, on
| the mountain. He said to Moses:
| "this is My work and My glory, to
| bring to pass the immortality and eter-
| nal life of man. This IL His great
| work. The human family had. through
| transgression. come under the law of
sin and death, and He had come to
restore that which was lost, and to
| bring to pass the resurrection. to
| prison, them that were bound, and
| declared the acceptable day of the
| Lord and bestowed gifts to men. This
| Is the kind of Captain of our saliva
| ton that we have, one who has re-
| vealed this knowledge. Said Tfe, AS
| the Father hath power In Himself to
| lay down His life and take 1t again,
| so hath He given unto the Son power
, to lay down His life and to take 1t
| again" and He did so. Now where
is there another among those strange
! religions that do not believe in the
| Lord Jesus Christ as their Redeemer
| that entertain any such knowledge
and Understanding of eternal life and
| of the resurrection of the dead? That
| He has obtained these, we have album
dnnt testimony. stephen said he saw
| Him sitting at the right hand of God,
while he, stephen, was being .perse-.
| cuted and stoned to death: and Paul
| said he had seen and heard things not
| lawful for a man to utter. And the
Savior, after He had done those Won
derful works in His own land. came
over here to America, and there was
here no chance for deception. because
| lie showed them the wounds in His
hands and In His feet. He was the
same person that went down into the
grave and came out triumphant over
the grave. Now. IL any of these other
religions have had any man that has
gone through the grave and risen
again, they certainly have been very
lacking In kindness not to come and
show their fellow worshippers of that
knowledge and that power and that
great attainment. But the Lord Jesus
has shown unto the Saints composing
His Church in the different parts of the
| world, the gifts and blessings Of i'm
mortality and eternal life which He
came and brought to light. The Apos-
Paul. in writing TO Timothy. say.
that 'life and Immortality is brought
to light through the Gospel" So then
we have the Gospel of the Lord Jesu:
Christ as something that endures be
yond the grave, while th'
knowledge that the rest o.
the human family possesses
only leads them to the grave. and be
You'd that Is to them dark
ness and ignorance. and they know
nothing about the future, comparative
ly speaking.
Jesus came and taught the peopl,
upon this land; He came here anC
ministered repeatedly. The Book o
Mormon tells MS that He came oft
and broke bread with the Saints here
and instructed them and testified t.
them: on one occasion He came anC
told them to gather together their sick
afflicted and distressed, and brinl
them before Him and He healed them
He made business OF 1t, ns JOSEPH
Smith went through the land OF Nau
VOC or Commerce and Mortrose heal
ing every one who was sick, Of tn
people of God. and MS the Savio
\ wished TO do In the land of Palestine
There IIc complained that He coul'
not do many mighty works becaus
Of their unbelief: but her
on the land of America, He foun
, | n greater measure OF faith. II
called together the people and heale
their sick and distressed. O
, another occasion He blessed their littl
/ ones, and those little ones spoke an
| uttered things incomprehensihle t
mortals and angels came down an
! surrounded them, and ministercd unit
| | them. And while the Savior Himsel
} began with degree of fearfulnes
I concerning their unbelief, before He 80
: full" Yes, this great Rcdeemer, tn
/ author of life and Immortality, cam
4 over to- this land and lnbored anon
! | Tho Nanhites and said here what W