Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-11-20

ana we point to the results and say;
Are not these the fruits which Jesus
said should attend obedience to His
Gospel and to the Keeping Of His com
maudments2 We say to the whole
world, Come and look ut us. We are
human beings. very fran. very weak.
very unworthy; but come and examine
ms, and test us by the standard that
the Lord has given in the Gospel or In
the scriptures. and see II We do not
bring forth some Of the fruits az least,
that the Lord said should attend the
preaching Of His Gospel
have spoken OF this love. and OF the
union that we have; hut there are other
evidences The gifts that the Lord
promised To the believers are In this
Church. The Lord has given unto the
Lutier-day Saints the gifts Of His
Spirit. There arc many gifts given.
Elders who go out and contend for the
GIT of speaking in tongues have in
many instances received that gift, and
they have been enabled TO speak the
language Of the people unto VII" n
they were sent Many have contr1uyd
also for the rift of Interpreting
tongues, and the Lord has heard their
prayers and given unto them the gjit
of Interpretation. II Is veil known
fact that wherever our Eldors 90 to
foreign lands to preach the Gospel
there is gift given them TO acquire
markahle qulclness. They acquire
the language in a surprisingly short
time. There are many instances OF
young men going to foreign lands and
being able to declare the Gospel 10 the
people in their own language and to
understand all that Is said t. them
within Il few weeks after they reach
there. And wherever they go aud the
sick apply to them to have hands laid
upon them, and they administer that
holy ordinance to them, the sick
do recover, where they are not APP
pointed unto death-for death is the
lot of all men: but the gift cf healing
is in the Church, and that gift at
tends the ministrhtions of the elders
wherever they go. The sick are healed
by the power of God; not by the power
of man, but through the exercise of
faith and the bestowal of the gi.t of
healing.
| might go on and enumorate diff
ferent gifts and manifestations that
have been given and that are given in
this Church. Take II, therefore, from
the first principle to the last that has
been proclaimed. and this Church is
an exact fac simlle Of the Church OF
Jesus Christ in early days, There is
not a feature that the Church If
Jesus Christ possessed In the days Of
the Savior and His Apostles that is
thing that was taught then ~ taught
now-the same principles, with the
same results. The fruits of the Spirit
are manifested The power Of God
is manifested. The gift IF prophecy
rests upon the people. l might allude
TO case of recent occurrence There
werq two young men chosen mt our
recent Conference to fill the vacancies
in the quorum Of the Twelve. The
newspapers had for long time been
guessing as to who these men
would be. Every man near
ly that was conspicuous in
the Church was mentioned, and the
people saw the names that were pub
lished; but the two that We're chosen
! had not been mentioned in public.
think the presentation Of their names
was great surprise to the bulk of our
people. but have been greatly
pleased to find how many Latter-day
! Saints there were that knew by the
testimony of the Spirit of Cod. that
| these mon would be chosen. There was
! one case particularly that was brought
| TO my attention. During the last spring
| conference at st George, the authori-
| ties We're presented as is customary
and one of the brethren said to some
| who were near him. 81 have an I'M
| preston that Matthias i. Cowleys
[ name Will yet he presented as one Of
| the Twelve Apostles. / know that will
| be so, and you can write 1t down"
Another instance occurred in Davis
! county. one of our leading men there
was talking &c a brother of his who is
an Apostle. and he said he was greatly
| impressed with the idea that Matthias
! i. Cowley would he chosen as one of
the Twelve Apostles, His brother,
the Apostle. thought he was mistaken.
or course the other thought his broth
| err ought TO know, and he Vartly dis
missed 1t from his mind: but when
the matter was brought before the con-
ference, he told his brother subsequent
ly that he had not been able to get II
out of his mind. he knew that name
would be presented.
/ was Mt fast meeting last Sunday
IN the ward where reside. One of the
brethren arose and testified that
| Brother owen Woodruff had been there
preaching as a missionary at one Of
the meetings. and he had told his fam
lily that Brother owen Woodruff would
be chosen one of the Twelve. This
was some months before. His family
scarcely believed him, but he testified
that 1t would be so.
/ have heard of numbers of instan-
ces of this kind among the Saints,
where the people have had 1t given
them by the spirit of prophecy and rev
citation who these two Apostles would
be. and 1t has filed me. as l say. with
pleasure and with gratitude and
THANKSGIVING that among the Latter
day Saints there Is the spirit OF proph-
ecy and OF revelation This spirit does
indeed rest upon the faithful
But great many do not live
80 as TO enjoy e. We
eXhort the people to seek for II. II
would be an easy matter to control thi,
people If they would only live so rs tc
have the spirit of prophecy and revcla,
ton continually In their hearts II
fact, they would govern themselves
They would know what was right, anC
they would be governed by that which
the Lord would communicate to them
But It is difficult thing to control
people when many of then
are in the dark md do no
have the spirit with them
You doubtless remember the case o
Joshua and Moses Two of the seven
ty elders who had been selected to re,
ceive a portion Of the spirit that wal
upon Moses remained i'm the CAM
while the others had gone to the tabor,
nacle The spirit Of prophecy which
| rested upon those who had gone to tn,
tabernacle fell also upon these tw,
men, and they prophesied in the camp
And there ran n young man. ant
told Moses. and said, Eldnd and Medal
do prophecy In the camp.
And Joshua the son Of Nun. the ser.
want of Moses, one Of his Young men
answered and said, My lord Moses. for.
bid them.
And Moses said unto him. Enyiest
thou for my sake? would God that all
the Lords people were prophets. ani
Tint tho ord would put IJfq GnfrIt 49,,