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

ter of the gospel according 10 St. JOnn.
They are the words OF the prayer of the
Lord Jesus previous to His martyrdom.
He said:
pray for them: I pray not for the
world. but for them which thou hast
given me; for they are thine.
And all mine are thine. and thine are
mine; and ] am glorified in them.
And now / am no more In the world,
hut these are in the world, and come
10 thee. Holy Father, keep through
thine own name those whom thou hast
given me, that they may be one, as we
while I was with them in the world
kent them In thy name: those that
thou gavest me | have kept, and none
of them is lost, but the son of perdl-
ton: that the scripture might be full
filled.
And now come / to thee, and these
things l speak in the world. that they
might have my joy fulfilled in them
selves
have given them thy word; and the
world hath hated them, because they
are not of the world, even as l am not
of the world.
l pray not that thou shouldest take
them out of the world, but that thou
shouldest keep them from the evil.
They are not of the world. even as
am not of the world.
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy
word Is truth.
Az thou hast sent me into the world,
even so have l also sent them into the
world.
self, that they also might be sanctliied
through the truth.
Neither pray ] for these alone; but
for them also which shall believe on
me through their word:
That they all may be one; as thou.
To ri in and / in thee. that
they also may he one in u.s. that the
world may believe that thou hast sent
me.
And the glory which thou gavest me.
have given them; that they may be
ono, even as we are one;
in them, and thou in me. that they
may be made perfect in one; and that
the world may know that thou hast
sent me- and hast loved them as thou
hast loved me.
Father. l win that they also whom
thou hast given me he with me whore
] am; that they may behold my glory
which thou hast given me: for thou
lovedst me before the foundation of
the world.
o righteous Father the world hath
not known thee: but | have known
thee. and these have known that thou
hast sent me.
And / have declared unto them thy
name. and will declare it: that the love
whcrewith thou hast loved me, may be
In them and / in them.
This prayer which our Savior offered
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can read 1t without being deeply inn
pressed with its meaning. It gives us
an excellent idea of the condition that
the Lord Jesus desired His Apostles
and those who should believe on their
words to be in. He prayed that they
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He had sent them, and that He him
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signed that the spirit OF oneness ana
Of love and union should characterize
HE discinIes and those who obeyed His
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give unto you. that We love one an
other" and He continued, by this
shall all men know that we are my
disciples, If ye love one another. They
were to be distinguished as HIS dls-
clplus by their love one for another
II this characteristic should be absent,
there would be nothing, according to
these words, to distinguish His dis
ciples from those who were not HIS
disciples. John has also recorded in
this same book that II we love Him we
Will keep His commandments. AS
disciples of the Lord Jesus, we should
show our love for Him by keeping His
commandments. Those who love Him
not will not keep His commandments.
These features which the Lord Jesus
impressed upon His disciples are the
attractive features of the Gospel which
lie preached; and where this love and
this union, which He so beautifully
describes, are absent, then there Is evil
dence that His commandments are not
being kept. and that those who are in
| that condition are not His disciples
| In these words that have read we
have the means of testing His Gospel.
and Of proving who are His disciples.
When men say they want some evil
Gospel. they have in these characteris-
ties the tests by which they can as
certain for themselves whether those
who profess to be the disciples of the
Lord are such in reality.
II is these features which have at
tended the preaching of the Gospel by
The Latter-day Saints that have al
ways called forth my thankfulness and
admiration. should never have been
satisfied with that which the Elders of
this Church have taught. had there
been an absence of love and OF union,
because the fruits which the Savior
Promised and prayed for would not nc
company the nreac ching of tho word