| Show SERMON by E eider elder ider lder orson llyde hyde delivered lelit ered in great salt lake city it dear DEAH BRETHREN AND SISTERS it is with feelings fe elins not a little peculiar fe culiar cullar that I 1 arise to address you on this occasion by this effort I 1 haye have solely for my 04 object act your edification in the wide field of truth which has been olle olie opened ried by the key of knowledge to our minds eye and we are bade to enter ener and regale resale ourselves among amon the undying beau heau beauties lies iles ties that fl spontaneously in this hei heh heavenly venly soil we wish to be made wiser by a knowledge of ard true a principles and better belter by adopting them in all the practical walks of life had I 1 copied the style of 0 address adopted by the he fashionable world 1 I might have said ladies ladles ladies lidies and gentlemen placing the fair in the van but bat as this would only be to reverse the order of cf our being through lifes thorny w way ordained and established by heavens law I 1 have X v e felt and still fedeli feel to observe the spirit of that lav law and that order not only in my ninner of address but in all the varied duties responsibilities and pleasures of life the hypocritical respect lavished upon females by the etiquette of the world in pushing them fo iward mand and in exciting their vanity by making them most conspicuous in in all he the novels and romances which like so much trash have flooded society and cursed the lan lau is only to make them a more easy prey to the he unbridled sensuality and ungodly lusts of their benighted au thois flattery is food for the silly and shallow brained bial bia ined ned but a wise heart and pare pure hand band will never administer it the order of heaven places man in the front rank hence he be is first to be addressed woman follows under unda r the protection of his counsels and the superior strength th of his arm her desire should be unto lier her husband ind and and he should rule over her I 1 will here venture the tile assertion that no tio man can be exalted to a celestial glory in lle ile lie the kindom kingdom kin dom of god whose wife rules over him and as the thel man is not without the woman nor the woman without the man in the lord it follows asa matter of course that the lle ile lie woman who rules over her husband thereby deprives herself of a celestial glory here the speaker was interrupted by thesues tion from the congregation what then will become comerf of prince albert and arid queen victoria the sp speaker ealier replied general and are too stubborn to yield bield to individual accommodation they must see to io their own affairs aff airs but to my subject the lay day in which we live is is an import antone ahtone important to the at large and to us as a people As time lime is s measured off to us by the dabby the week and ond by the tire ye ir our quantum will soon eoon be run offa off and we be summoned to render an account of the tile u uso te a and lio iro improvement r movement we have made of it let the qu question estion now anise arise arise in in every breast am I 1 acting well weil a 11 mv my part while I 1 occupy the tage stage of life remember renil that your daily prayer pra er to god is thy kingdom come tome an and thy will be e done oil on earth as it is is done in heaven 11 remember also that we are the favored and chosen people to io whom that kingdom is come and it will continue wilh with us provided our energies coupled with the and power of god be directed to that object an object for which all christendom is pra praying anglo to be accomplished and one too against which their skill kearnin learning and power powen er will be arrayed even the devils in hell hall will burst forth from their fiery cells to unite with wilh the fallen sons of earth dearth to oppose the kingdoms of world becoming the kingdom of our god the kin kings 11 s and ruie rule rulers rs of the earth will not willingly cast their crowns and skeptics sceptics ties at the feet of the priesthood and wai wal worship hi the god of hosts his almighty power in in judgments ju ments alone will humble them into this submission sion slon 11 he ile shall send seni eni forth judgment unto victory li lt let lit t strict integrity and purit purity yot of heart and life be our bulwark and the faith falth of abraham moses daniel shadrach meshach die Ale shach and abednego be our ofir shield and fortress of strength gili now and in tha th lay day of temptation and trial triai to incite you to diligence and thid perseverance let me ros tell you that jur our foes are not only strong but wil wll wily and yet to encourage to inspire you with w faith flaith and hope allow me to say sav that hat god is st stronger and more wild wily than they the almighty river never did neither will wi I 1 lie he ever display h n power in behalf of bis his people until they are broil brought bit hit fit into tried and straightened pl nd what ai if some of us should lay down our lives for christs sake we all have to die at some time tune and if we are but inthe faithful discharge of our duty it should matter not to us when or by what means we go ro our enemies may say gay for righteousness sake we ve kill hill thee not but for tor thine own wickedness and perverseness what persecutors of the followers of jesus ever acknowledged that hat they martyred marty red or killed the salvry sain saih for righteousness sake none they claimed that they did it on account of heir their wickedness and if they never have mada this acknowledgment do you think they ever evin ever even will no with a blind and in maddened bened zeal against we the saints strengthened by the tte eternal hatred datre d and jealousy of tha fallen failen angels will they fill the cup of their iniquity and ripen in the glare of their oppression for tile the judi judgments ments of almighty god are we everywhere spoken agamet al ast Is almost every nei nel newspaper shaper and joui houi journal jo na with i t h a thousand and one anonymous letter writers pouring forth their spleen spleet i animadversions and maledictions male dictions upon n the saints in utah do they wish and an d intend to blow up a storm a tempest lo 10 burst upon our heads with all the fury of the combined elements to swep swep us from the face of the earth or secretly and add under udder cover do they intend to rig ii a purchase to prey upon the peace and happiness of the saints who wio have fled from the face of tile he serpent unprotected and to this desolate land to which no other people would come until after we came and killed the boake snakes q built bulit the bridges proved the country raised bread and built houses for them to come to aland A land where no oe pie call can or will dwell divell should the mormons cormons Mori morl hons leave it why this hatred and ill will against ag you youa what have you fone done tone to provoke it we have rebuked iniquity and in some instances in rather high places but the real cause is explained by our savior ye are not of the world but I 1 have chosen you you vou out of the Uie world therefore the world orid orld hate you remember that god not only onix rules the storm bat but visits the leeret secret chambers he call can hush the storm and say to the winds peace be still and catch the fowler in his own snare the professed professed purity of this generation wll will root n ot allow t the e institutions lolls bolls of utah to exist rb i eck elk ellif if f they candelise can devise any scheme to disturb them it is true that the tile people of utah believe inand in and practise polygamy my not because oui our natural desires as lead lea iea into leto that condition and state of life but t because our god hath commanded it and and add wishing to comply with that as well as all others of 0 hi his S comm commands ands we are as we are we also wish to be counted abrahams children to whom tile the promises were made and also with whom tile the covenants were established and being told that chati it we are the children of abraham we will do ille tile works of abraham we are not a little anxious to do as he did among other things that hat lie he did lie ha took more than one wife in thil this lie he was wa not alone for this example wag was copied by most of the ancient worthies and others who succeeded him under the same everlasting covenant even eken the wisest irises and best men men after gods own heart entered i tile he most deeply into this practice nor wa was s this practice limited to the days of the old testament it will be borne in mind that once on a time there was a marriage in can cara 3 of gahle gahie Ga lile ille and on a careful reading leading of that transaction it will be discovered that no less a person than jesus christ was married oo 00 that occasion if lie were deveir never married his bis intimacy with vary tary uary and martha md tile the other mary also whom jesus loved must hava bava been li highly lily illy unbecoming and improper to say the best of it I 1 will venture to say that if jesus christ were now to pass through gh til the e most pious countries in christen christendom with a iraln irain of women such as used to follow him fo fondling about him combing his llis hair anointing ano him with precious ointment washing his feet with tears and wiping them with the hair of their heads and unmarried or even mir married ried he lie would be mobbed tarred and feathered and rode not on an as ass but on a rail what did the nu prophet mean when whan he said speaking of genst lle lie ile he shall see his seed prolong proton his days ac dd DA jesus consider it necessary to fulfil fulfill every i ous command or requirement of hs hi father 11 he mos most cei cel tamly did this he lie witnessed by b submitting to baptism under the hands of john 11 thus hus it be cometh us to fulfill fulfil all righteous righteousness niss nass said he be was it gods commandment jo lo man malin in lle ile lie tile beginning to multiply and replenish the earth none call can d deny en y tha thi this s nather neither that it was a a righteous command for upon aa an obedience to this fbi deperi depended ded tile the perpetuity of our race did christ come to desnoy the tile law or the prophet or to t fui ful fil them hem ile he came to fulfill fulfil i dd did lie lle je multiply and did re tie see his seed did h he e lionor honor hs his fathers law by complying with it or iid ild lid did hlll others may do do as they like but I 1 will not hot charge our savior with neglect or transgression ih or any other duty at this doctrine the long faced hypocrite an 1 l the sanctimonious bi bigot got zot will probably cry blasphemy horrid perversion of gods word wicked wretch wrete lil ili he is s not fit to live ac ac but the wise and reflecting will consid coned er read and pay ray pi ay if f god be not our father fattier grandfather or areat grandfather or some kind of a father iii in r reality eg 1 I ity in deed and in in truth why are we tali tall taught lit to cosay say our father who art in heaven how much of holy horror ibis his bis doctrine mily may excite in persons not impregnated impre grated with the blood of christ and whose minds are consequently dark daric and benighted ted it may excite still more when they are told that if done none of the natural blood of carist flows in their theil veins they are not the chos chosen an or r elect of god goj object not therefore too strongly against the ma marriage I 1 ariage of christ but kemem remember ber that m ili ill tile the last days secret and hidden things mase mast come to jo light and that hat youn your your ve life 4 also aiso so which is the blood alood is hid with christ drist in god abraham was chosen of god goj for the purpose of raising up a chosen seed sord sea sen and a peculiar people unto his name jesus christ hassent was was sent into the he fora similar purpose pose but upon a more I 1 extended scale christ wak was the seed ed of abraham so teck reck reckoned ollied to these great promises were made one of which mas was was that in abraham and ana in his seed which chic was chiist christ all the families of the earth eaith should be blessed when when tile the ungodly or those not of their seed should be cut oft off from the earth and no family remaining oi on earth except their own seed then in abraham and in christ all ail the families and kindreds of the earth will be blessed satan bound and the he millennium full fuli fully y came come then ahe meek will arll inherit eilt elit the earth and gods elect reign undisturbed at least for one thousand year years Is there thele no way provided for thos those e to come into this covenant relation V n ho may not possess in their their veins vains any of the blood of of christ yes by doing the works of abraham and of christ in the faith of abraham and of chrit chris t not ill hi unbelief and unrighteousness like the wicked world who have damned themselves in in their own corruption and arid unbelief if thou wilt believe oil on the lord jesus christ and andrepont repent of thy sins and put them allaway and forsake them forever for ever even and turn unto th the 6 lord our god and seive seve him with all thy might mind and astren strength the tile holy ghost will change thy vile body quicken and arid renew thy spirit an aal 1 natural system so that thou lay git ott grf off or overcome that fallen nature which is in the body with it its sing sins sin anabe and be created anew in in christ jesus Jes lla iia with a new I 1 oart a and nd a new spirit even the holy ghost this will vi cause calise your spirits to cry abba alba father your lips lip may everi even evert now cry abba Fa fathel thel thet but your veur spirit cannot until it is denoval renovated ed arid and lip s servie at ice ize you know is mockery before god we are to worship sh p god it in spirit and in truth and with the understanding der also but W if you wish to destroy us ris for doing daib the he works of abraham ind nd of chris chi ish know ye that god will curse you and neither he nor his people will allow you to have any part in the covenant of promise ani ani neither in Abra abraham harri nor yet in christ can ya be blessed there is is something more implied in in this change often alluded to by all professing christians than ilian is ju i su ally considered it is nevertheless and philosophically true during dunn the late session of fhe the legislature a epry v rv polite hote was received by that body flom mr van emman agent of the ame ric an society who wished to have afie menor members scab at a h s depository ana ard add examine exemine hi hist biSi bibek bibles bibes mid wid prices and andio to advertise them irith in virl 10 lo 11 ti 11 lva loa f atam aing alo kio cali ties to which they were w ere about to repair and also aiso t to lay before them the object of the society in in sen sending lino ling the bibles to utah tile the legislature indu proper to app ap pinta ninta ointa committee to wait upon mr nir V examine ac and being a member of the house ilous 1 with wither br F D richards was aas das a appointed said dog dom committee cittee in the he discharge of bour our cur duties I 1 remarked to mr air van einman emman who b by tile the by received us very gentlemanly atha ihal L the society which he be had bad hadame abe honor to feht no doubt considered us dezra deara degraded ded and anci almost ond the reach of bible truth truths ile he replied that chev did not consider us so degraded Ws 3 we m think ney nev they hey did but that etwas it was the desien design olf ole of the society to 16 put the word of god into the lands hands of ei every ery cry ii man ian kan in in tile the world maii wall qan uan bot lot not ceitel cei cel ted red I 1 I 1 ic plied piled nial mial a this was very good but be vever charlta charita and nd benevolent the be design designs of that society mv moy bp so far a |
