The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-30
ASSEMBLY HALL SERVICES
FATHER YOUMAN DELIVERS
HIS FIRST SERMON THERE.
Powerful Talk On the Text, ''My
Lord and My Goodwill Prove
Divinity of Christ Tonight.

The first services conducted by Faith
er Youman in the Assembly hall were
opened last night by the singing of
Nearer My God, to Thee" A large
| congregation was present Then the
missionary arose to address his audi
ence.
In the beginning he thanked the au-
thorities of the Mormon church for
their kindness in giving the use of the
hall. He then requested any of his
hearers to put any questions regarding
religion in the question-box, provided
| these questions be free from insult to
any community.
During the services, tracts were dis
tributed; also a book called plain
Facts for Fair Minds" These will De
distributed nightly to the audience.
Taking as his text My Lord and my
God, Father Youman spoke briefly on
the doubts of Thomas and their So
luton by the Master, and showed how
the words of Jesus, Blessed are they
who have believed and have not seen, -
apply to the Christian of today. Then,
taking the first article of the creed. Il
believe in God, the Father Almighty. -
he spoke of the nobility of man, COM
posed of body and soul, free, a spirit,
and sealed with the spirit of immor-
tally.
The word believe is important" he
continued "I believe no doubts; I
believe no doubts, only a firm con-
viction-
Faith is the substance of things
hopes for; the evidence of things I'M
seen. Every man living has the long
ing for happiness; happiness here, hap
pineSS in eternity.
Il cannot see God, yet I know to a
certainty by faith. BY reason I can
only know him vaguely.
who is God? He is the incompre-
hensible being. All we know is what
he has revealed. L am Ali the per
fectness of all men form but a drop
compared with his PROJECTIONS He is
infinite.
Before creation, nothing but God
existed He, by naught but his omnipo-
tent word, created the heavens, with
their starry spheres; the earth, with all
its beauties; and the whole of creation
marks to US the beauty of God.
Believing in God means that we be-
Eeve whatever he has revealed. We
can know nothing of our future des-
tiny beyond the grave, except by his
revelation.
I'VE do not lower ourselves by faith;
we raise ourselves. That Divine Be
ing speaks; that is enough, because he
is infallible truth: he cannot deceive
or be deceived: hence, 1 believe what
ever he has revealed. / must bend my
intellect, not to man. but to the God
of heaven and earth; and instead of
lowering myself, 1 raise myself, / be-
come in TOUGH with the eternal truth.
Faith is a light. a free gift from
God, by which we believe. The clean
of heart shall see God. Let us be clean
Of heart, that he may make us certain
of heaven"
During the sermon the lights were
eXtinguished by the storm, but amidst
the complete silence the preacher con-
tinued his discourse, and upon the re-
turn of the light, drew an illustration
of the light of faith giving a knowledge
of God and his projections.
Tonight the subject will be, 'I Be
lieve in Jesus Christ, His Only Son.
Our Lord" in which lecture will be
proved the divinity of Christ