Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-12-11

For instance, there Is the Mohamme
dan religion, and those people have a
faith of their own, and they are very
numerous, about 115,OOO.00O. they est-
mate, | believe. They have their
prophet, they have their faith, they
have their ideas of futurity, and they
are sort of cousin in the relation
to father Abraham's family. His son,
lshmael, and lsaac's son, Esau. in
their seed. constitute n 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 hum
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
n 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, q
resurrectlon-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 a resurrec-
tion and Immortality beyond the
grave. All that they have given to
them Is the exercise of n certain faith
that lasts them through this life. But
the Gospel of the Latter-day Saints,
which is the Gospel of the former
day Saints, as 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 three days, and He did not go away
without being seen. He 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 good many years before. on
the mountain. He said to Moses:
'"fhis is My work and My glory, to
bring to pass the immortality and eter-
nal life of man." This is 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
ha tn nj ri 10 In
prison, them that were bound, and
declared the acceptable day of the
Lord. and bestowed gifts to men. This
Is the kind of n Captain of our saliva
ton that we have. one who has re-
vealed this knowledge. Said He, 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
dant 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
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lawful for 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
He 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. says
that life and Immortality is brought
| to light through the Gospel" So then,
we have the Gospel of the Lord Jesus
| Christ as something that endures be-
yond the grave, while the
the human family possesses
only leads them to the grave. and be-
| You'd that Ia to them dark
ness and ignorance. and they know
| nothing about the future, comparative
| ly speaking.
| Jesus came and taught the people
| upon this land: He came here and
| mlnistered repeatedly. The Book of
Mormon tells us that He came oft.
| and broke bread with the Saints here.
and instructed them and testified to
| them. on one occasion He came and
told them to gather together their sick.
| afflicted and distressed. and bring
| them before Him and He healed them.
| He made business OF 1t, ns Joseph
! Smith went through the land OF Maui
| VOC or Commerce and Mortrose heal
| ing every one who was sick, OF the
| people of God. and as the Savior
| wished TO do in the land of Palestine.
There He complained that He could
| not do many mighty works because
| of their unbelicf but here
on the land of America, He found
greater measure OF faith. He
called together the people and healed
their sick and distressed. on
| another occasion He blessed their little
ones, and those little ones spoke and
uttered things incomprehensihle 70
mortals and angels came down and
| surrounded them. and ministercd unto
| them And while the Savior Himself
began with n degree of fearfulness
concerning their unbelief, before He got
! through He said: Now My Joy Is
full" Yes. this great Rcdeemer, the
author of life and Immortality, came
over to this land and labored among
the Nephtes. and said here. what We
! have 10 account of His saying IN
that other land. at any time: "Now
My Joy is fun" on the contrary. on
the other land, He .ssrrowcd and lie