Show SUNDAY SERVICES divine authority the two resurrections resurrect lons ions etc religious religions services were held in the tabernacle salt lake city sunday may 13 1888 commencing at 2 p m president angus M cannon presiding the choir and congregation sang 0 god our help in ages past our oar hope tor for years to come our shelter from the stormy wast blast and our eternal home prayer by elder robert morris toe the choir sans sang on that dark and dreadful night when powers of earth and hell arose against the son elen een delight and friends betrayed him to his foes the Priesthood of the first ward officiated in the administration of the sacrament ELDER CHARLES W addressed the congregation I 1 would arise before this vast assembly with much reluctance were it not that I 1 have a testimony of the truth of the gospel and that the holy spirit will aid the servants of the lord who engage in preaching the truth I 1 hope that the spirit of the lord may touch the hearts of all present that they may be prepared to receive and treasure up the truths which may be presented loose sacred principles which god his has made known that we may be brought nearer to him and at length betoken betaken be taken C ack into his presence colomon to lomon says that words spoken in season are like apples of gold in pictures of silver apples of gold eold we may regard as p principle truth which comfort and ed edify afy th the e people when presented to them jesus said there were two roads which men may follow that wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction and many there be that go in thereat because strait is the gate and narrow is the way which lead etti unto life and few there be that nud find it why should tho the path to eternal life and glory be a narrow one and difficult to pass through were we surrounded by heavenly circumstances free from the sins which burden this world we mi might ht ila flod d it eamier to walk in this path but ut we nave have left that s sphere here and have come down unto a fallen fallen world the light of the gospel and of revelation has been shut out from mankind tor for many centuries and the race has had to depend upon the written word they have spiritual spi ritualized izet holy writ and it is difficult toton to convince vince the people of a literal meaning of the savings of the savior even the principle of baptism so simple and so plainly taught is not believed as laid down in the new testament and a large portion of christendom do not believe that baptism by immersion is essential to salvation there to ere are the two priest hoods the and Aaron le typifying the right and left hands of god the former ruling in spiritual and toe latter in IB temporal things in the ordinances of the gospel are delineated the spiritual and aad temporal things of ef the kingdom baptism is administered by the priesthood thus phillip baptized the samaritans samaritana Samar itans but did not lay hands upon them for the gift of the holy ghost he sent to peter and john at jerusalem who came down and performed this ordinance the samaritans samaritana Samar itans who received it then in ia tongues and prophesied on a sai tan ia occasion when the apostles were performing er forming miracles in the name came of lesus jesus the sons of Sceva Seeva fidd sald let us do these theae things in this name 11 now flow those having authority to do these things were required to be called of god and duly daly ordained which was not the case with the sons SOBS ut of seeva sceva when the latter undertook to cast out an evil spirit they failed the evil spirit said to them jesus I 1 know and paul but who are ye the min man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them and overcame them wid and prevailed against them so that they tied fled out but of that house naked and wounded thus these men learned a lesson but when the apostles who had been called by revelation and duly ordained rebuked evil spirits the latter obeyed and ceased to afflict their victims and we read ot of the return odthe of the servants of god od saying even the devils are a subject abject unto us When the seventy r rejoiced bleed because they could cast out devils evils jesus said bothem rejoice not that the spirits are subject unto onto you but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven jesus taught in my fathers house bouse are many mansions I 1 go to prepare a place for you yon notwithstanding this plain declaration I la it is the prevailing belief of Crist christendom endom today that in the next world horld there are out but two places the higher of which is called heaven and the other which is called hell bell paul says there is one glory like the tee sun son at another iother like the moos and as one star from another star in glory so also 2180 is the resurrection ot of the dead thus there was a great meaning in the promise of the SiL savior vior igo agoto to prepare a place tor you before his ascension commanded his apostles to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature promising certain blessings to such as would believe and saying that those who would not believe should be damned damned now in the light of the infinite e love ot of G god 04 tor for his creatures I 1 cannot be lieve that such as might tail fail to be baptized should be forever consigned to suffering in a lurid fire but I 1 think these words mean that they should be condemned and their condemnation dem nation should consist in their be ing cast out f from rom the presence of god instead ot paradise the highest heaven it is a spiritual condition in which the spirits of the dead awalt await the resurrection those who have been righteous will rejoice in this B state late while those who have done wickedly will continue in a condition of outer darkness a a place where they will fel feel remorse and sorrow for their sins and perhaps ats we 0 repent read in ia johns revelation of 0 a vision which he saw and I 1 saw a great white throne and all the dead both small and great stood before before god and were judged out of those things which were written in the bos books ae cording according to their works and the sea gave up its dead and death and hell del delivered vered up the dead which were in them this john describes as the second resurrections t to 9 take place a thousand years after the first of which he also speaks during daring the thousand years christ will reign upon the earth as klag king of kings and lord of lords co who are abe kings over which begill be will reign those who are raised at the first resurrection the earth shall rest during this period of which the sabbath is typical which israel in the days of moses were commanded to observe we are now fast approaching this sacred time Is it wonderful that be tore 4 ore its arrival god should introduce nother another dispensation 0 the gospel and call upon mankind to repent la Is it wonderful erful that he should invite his children to the feast he has prepared f tor or them he has set flis hand band again t to 0 gather bis people the savior said tb this is gospel of tho the kingdom shall be p reached preached in all nations and then shall t the he end come IJ the th end of the world means the termination of all unrighteousness ri and of the power of of satan through the prophet joseph smith god has sent a message of revel revelation lation and repentance pen tance to the world in the same manner and by the same authority by which the apostles chosen by jesus were sent to the nations of the earth the same priesthood which these apostles held has been restored some may ask what need to restore this priesthood triest priesthood hood because all who formerly held eld it were taken away from the earth and the authority to perform the ordinances of the gospel did not exist among men when the servants of god in the days of the primitive church who held this authority were martyred marty red or became extinct men became darkened in their minds concerning the plan of salvation and began to teach for doctrine the commandments mand ments of men john the baptist ap appearing caring unto joseph smith and oliver bowdery cowdery as an angel ordained them to the priesthood and told them it should not be taken from the earth again till the sons of levi offer again a sacrifice in righteousness man to a dual being having a spirit and a body the ch church arch of god bodis is both temporal and spiritual the spirit or the body alone will not be exalted but 11 t both joined together will be we have 1 1 e a type of this in the resurrection of the savior when he presented himself to his disciples disciple i after his death he had bad the same spirit clothed with th abe ePame same body as belg before his death the aff speaker iesker described the manner mannerly in ln which jesus convinced thomas of G the reality of the resurrection as related in the new testament and spoke of the dif difference terence between walking by faith and by sight the christ was a real and literal raising of the dead and was typical of the resurrection resu of the righteous skeptics way may seek to reason this doctrine away but they cannot change the act that christ was raised from the dead and if he had bad power powei to raise Eim himself self he has power to raise his bre brethren th n it f w we e would have part in the first ra t resurrection we must obey abe 6 GOS gospel pe 11 in it its purity and falness ful ness but int in the he second resurrection all will be raised for as death came into the world by the act of ef one man so shall the resurrection resurrect iett of all be brought to pass by the power ot of christ the promise to Is that they that overcome eternal life over come what their own natures bringing themselves into subjection to the will of god conform conforming their acts and desires thereto in all things the new jeru jerusalem em shall be built in this ge generation a ier ration M and 0 d a cloud shall rest up upon 0 it by day and a light by ni night it is no not t enough that we are baptized for or a remission of our sins it is necessary that we should live thenceforth la in the manner required by the law of god in beien baptized we typify leathand death deat hand and the resurrection and it is required of us no that we shall thence forth walk in newness of life for this reason 8 aft after we are baptized in water the s servants auts of the lord holding tire Melchi sedek Pries priesthood thoo lay their hands upon us and the spirit of the lord descends upon us to guide us ma in the path ot of truth and righteousness we should prepare ourselves lor for the coming of the lord for he will wall come as a thief in the night we should prepare ours ourselves eltes to meet him by a righteous course of life and by purity tag our bodies and controlling our passions 0 n a and desgres desM res brin bringing tug them into h harmony a r meny with ilie the wal will of god we must be more spiritually minded for to he be carnally minded is death do not suppose that bemuse because you pay your tiding regularly that you can defraud your brother or do wrong in other things with impunity the strength of a chain Is s in its weakest link so with the strength of a mans character the speaker exhorted the young people to keep the sabbath day holy and not be beguiled by the various temptations presented to them to des elrate it but to properly anticipate the sabbatical reign of the lord by regarding his typical sabbath with reverence and observing atas it as a sacred and blessed day of rest he prayed that the blessings of heaven might rest down upon the strangers who were present and upon all the abe congregation that they might comprehend the gospel revealed in our day and rejoice in all the blessings flowing from obedience to its principles in faithfulness the choir sang the anthem glory to god benediction by elder william L binder |