Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-03-20

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dent Joseph r. Smith did not know fol
! themselves that ne WAS and had beer
| AL along Inspired OF God The sneak.
| tr testified that from the days of Joseph
| r. 0mltns young manhood he had
| known him, and that he was servant
or GOD, guided by the Holy Ghost
| which Is the spirit of revelation lie
pore testimony that Joseph r. Smith
| was the chosen Of God TO lead the
! Church and that he had the word OF
| me Lord for His people. The speaker
| testhed TO the presence and power of
we Holy Ghost in the Church and to
me ultimate triumph OF truth over err
| for ana the coming Of Him whose right
II Is to reign when the Kingdoms OF This
world would become the Kingdom of
God and His Christ.
PRIEST FRANCIS NJ. LYMAN.
President Francis NJ Lyman was the
next speaker, He said that whenever
me Lord had a people upon the earth,
lie always communicated His mind
and VIII unto them through His SER
wants. The Prophet Joseph smith was
honored like unto Moses, for the Father
appeared to Him and introduced His
son Jesus Christ. Like Moses. also.
Joseph, the Prophet, was lawgiver
unto Israel, for he received revelations
for the guidance Of the Lords people.
SO also had his successors, for the Lord
had spoken through them all and would
continue to do so until His purposes
were accomplished in the earth.
President Joseph +. Smith, said the
speaker, was n worthy successor Of
those who had preceded him. The son
OF Hyrum Smith, the first Patriarch Of
the Church, he was entitled to the bless
ings Of God II he did right and this
he was doing and had done since his
early boyhood
President Lyman advised his hearers.
II they had any msgivings, to examine
their own hearts and place them right
before the Lord, The Saints OF God
had never been perfect They We're
as other men, weak becaus of their
mortality There had been none per-
feet save Jesus Christ, and IL was not
expected that there would be until Sa-
tan had been bound and sin and corrup-
tlon overcome II was not the purpose
or province Of those who stood I'm au-
thority TO tyrannze over their breth-
rem and sisters, nor did they; all had
their free agency 10 say and do as they
saw Mt IL they did right, the Lord
would bless them; II they chose TO do
for those wrongs.
President Lyman paid high tribute TO
President Joseph II. Smith. than whom
no truer man had ever stood at the
mead OF this Church. He had been
faithful In season and out OF season.
His integrity to the work Of God could
not be questioned, and the Saints
would do well TO give him and his as
sociates their full confidence and sup
port.
Concluding, the speaker invoked the
blessings OF God upon all, and exhorted
all TO honor and sustain the government
OF the United States, and TO remain
faithful to the testimony Of the truth.
PRESIDENT JOSEPH +. SMITH.
/ feel very grateful to the Lord and
TO my brethren who have spoken here
for the kindly feeling that they have
exposed toward me, a humble fellow
servant; and desire to bear my tes-
timony Of the lives and labors and pur-
~ of life and character OF the men
whom we have heard this afternoon
from this stand. / have known them,
as 1t has been stated by them with ref
erehce 10 myself, eyer since we were
boys together; and / have always
known from the beginning until now
that they We're men who possessed I'm
their souls the spirit of the living God.
l need scarcely to say this, because you
know yourselves these men, and have
heard them often. You have heard
them bear testimony to the divine mis-
sion OF the Prophet Joseph Smith, to
the divine mission OF our Lord and Saw
ior Jesus Christ, to the great and
glorious truth that God has revealed
Himself from the heavens again in
these latter days, through the instru-
mentalities which He has chosen as a
means OF restoring His Gospel In this
generation In its fullness and power
and the Priesthood of God which has
authority divine and effective, from
God TO man. And you have known
them; their lives are an open book Ia
the Latter-day Saints, and to all men
who have had anything to do with
them or who have had any dealings
with them, or who have ever heard OF
them. They are men of truth. men OF
honor and men Of God; and, as has been
said by President Lyman, they have
never had to be whitewashed, nor
cleansed nor anything covered up in
their lives AS said before, through
out their lives their whole course and
conduct has been open to their associ-
ates and to- all the Church. and they
are known
Now with reference 70 the principle
and doctrine of revelation, Il may be
proper for me to say a few words on
this subject while / am on my feet,
For me to say. which was the very end
that my critics and my inqulsitors were
endeavoring TO get me to say, I'm order
that might be led into that trap which
they had made for me, to say that God
had given to me revelation upon some
new doctrine. or theory, or principle. or
precept. or anything TO be written, 10 be
observed or handed down as a guide
TO the Church, would have been I'M
true. could not have said that. for
He has not done this. But has God re-
vealed TO me His mind and His WHIP
Has he made manifest 10 me knowl-
edge OF His truth by and through the
spirit OF revelation? Did you ever hear
or my denying that? No; no man has
ever heard me deny that.
When | was first baptized as a little
child, right up here at the junction of
East Temple and North Temple streets
where city creek then ran, but where N
Is now covered and obliterated-w when
J was first baptized into the Church OF
Jesus Christ OF Latter-day Saints, God
Almighty revealed to me that / had
done an act which He approved; I re.
ceived then and there revelation from
Almighty God. that has been with me
like a we'll OF living water, springine
up unto everlasting life In me, which
has been a stay and n stan to me In ali
my daily walks at home and abroad
God Almighty revealed to me that 10
seph Smith was Prophet OF God that
his message was divine, that he was
raised up by the power OF the Aln1ightv
to lay the foundations Of this great lat.
ter-day work. The Lord Almighty has
revealed to me the truth that he sealed
his testimony with his blood, that he
was true TO the end. as was the Son
OF God true until he cried ut Is
enoughl" upon the cross. The Lord
Almighty has revealed to me in terms
that are mnmlstAkable and ihnt nrn