Show THE GOSPEL IN III ENGLAND disorderly nt at tin the hyde temperance hall hill in the north cheshire I england ng land of jan 21 st we find a ian ti ay iy report of two meetings held beld at the temperance hall hyde by the elders from utah aa As several of the E elders iders who took part in those meetings arc are well known to a majority of our reader readers and as the proceedings in this case arc are more or iasa less a sample of many similar congregations in the united state states we have deemed it advisable to make seme some excerpts from the report of the alic cheshire ilire herald which aeto be written with a considerable nr e degree of unprejudiced fairness the day of the mcc mec tinga referred to was sunday the it was tas announced that service would be held in the temperance hall at two and by a few minutes past that hour the large upper tipper room was crowded to excess many people havin to standard stan dand a great many more tore could not dot gain admittance about twenty females aid ald six males who hail from woodley Haughton Ashton and other places partook of sacrament and also a so assisted in the singing the chair was occupied by elder moroni brown president of alic manchester conference who was supported on the platform by Elders fbrown hiscox and Ili hillam llam who it appears had come from utah at different periods varying r from three to twelve months S several e cral members odthe of the faith from the neighborhood od of II aughton Woo woodley dicy and ash an were also on oil the platform after the usual opening pening exercises excises the president sni said d lie hoped the audience would b be c as quiet as possible s and he would promise them eliat there would be nothing said that would bo be calculated to harm aarm the feelings of any man they having come forthe for the benefit odthe of the fiuman in man family to teach the doctrine which they professed to have received from god ther eternal father in this the dispensation of the tile fullness of times they were tra ra velling as elders and apostles of jesus christ without scrip or purse they were not preaching for hire and the they dinnen dinned not for money they did d a not prepare pre are their sermons beforehand but their weir ideas were to present themselves before the people and trust to the comforter which jesus jeus je us promised to his disciples when ho lie ascended he ile hoped they would give attention while lethey they administered one of the ordinances which tho the lord administered to his disciples viz the lords supper elder ellis next stepped forward and asked the attention odthe of alie audience as they were not come to tell them anything any tiling new but something which had been taught for the last fifty years it had also been taught in n hyde and many had believed in it and had been gathered out of the place and they believed that there were many moro more honest people at heart in the town they were of the tile opinion that there were as good fish in the sea as had been out it was in that belief that they called upon them to repent of their sins and bo be baptized pr the remis MIS mission SIRIon of the same that they might have hands iad la d upon them b by those having authority for the it holy ghost they also came to warn the inhabitants of tho tile earth of the tile judgments that had to come that was the day of warning and ho he lord would open their hearts so that they would let his spirit rest upon them and have faith in the testimony of his servants who had tried the experiment they promised them in the name of the lord that if they we went nt forth and ob obeyed eyed the commandments they would know whether they spoke of themselves or whether they spoke of god he prayed that god would bless them then elder rich next stood forward and referred the audience to the ath and verses of the first chapter of gal al even though beor an angel from heaven p reach any other gospel cl c anto you let lot us its be accursed M ho commenced to discourse upon the tile text but was received with of sit thee down ho he attempted attempt cd to proceed but found it impossible to do BO so for the uproar and confusion were tremendous one of the audience shouted whores joe smith the ille elder E ider made answer and said laid in heaven li caven at the right hand of god after a time order was again restored and elder rich once more attempt id to proceed with ilia discourse but eo so loud laud were tho the shouts odthe of the audience limong amongst st the cries being bri brigham lian young that the elder sat down disgusted after elders brown and wilcox had bad rebuked the unruly clement element of the audience and a mr Rowe howcroft Ko wcroft had hat addressed address ed the meeting concern ing in the bad behavior which h lad ad existed throughout the proceedings and strongly urged them to let people peole poole le sec see that the young persons of VI hyde de knew how to conduct tham se es the meeting a was closed with prayer in the tile evening another mec meeting ting ivas was held beld and tho the lads being kept out tile proceedings were cre quite orderly elder F brown said lio lie was inexperienced with regard to the ways of the world in preaching the gospel but lio lie could read the bible and sec see what had been ciary in the days of old in order or dertat man might be r saved aved and enter tha kingdom of god there were some hundreds of diffie different rent denominations that presented themselves before the world and claimed to be teaching the gospel of the lord jesus but they claimed that it took a cause came to produce an effect and it was because e they had not abided by the laws of t the lie bible as said in the days of jesus that they were net not more united the mormons cormons Mor mons claimed that the people had departed from the faith and anti they as men claimed to bethe bo the servants of god cod who had the authority au thorit y conferred upon them to go into the world and preach the gospel and they did it as it is in ill tho the bible and if they departed from it all might say eay that there was no light in them they claim that in order to face darkness they should produce light and if there were any present who were willin willing to confine themselves to the biblo and tho the doctrines contained therein they would find that they did not depart from the law and the tc testimony god had given them a right Z to worship him ctr their own consciences and ho he claimed that it was his right to wor blip god in the tile manner that he ito saw fit the creed of the latter day saints was for every man mail to ym mind n liis his own businda bu sinea sinev and if that creed was acted up to the tile world would not have to keep men mci I to prevent one from imposing on oil another jesus commanded his apostles to preach the gospel to every creature on the face of the earth and ho ile said in his name should they cost cast out devils and they held that no man mail had bad a right to claim Eal salvation unless ho he was in po Emion of tho the things that were pm possessed cozed by the bilings of old they found that the comforter came unto tho the disciples and they rose up tip and spoke wit tongues and testified to tho tile various various languages of the earth that jesus was the chast and they were told what was necessary to be saved many people would say that it vas was not decem necessary ary to observe the tile laws of the tile gospel but only to have faith in the lord Jesus Christ and believe in him if that tha the case the whole world would be saved who profess to be christians would claim that they believed in gadbut t we ive know that the same eanie cause would produce tho the same sanie effie effect ct and if it were necessary for man mail to be baptized in the days lays of chrit it was necessary at the present time elder entwistle said lie rose before them to bear liis his humble testimony mony to the truth of the work in which they thay were engaged he went aay avray from hyde many years agnand he lie received the gospel but not lot from any particular man mail but through listening to the teachings of the tile people whom he ile came in in i contact with he confessed confes ad that he lacre received alie holy t taught liim him the tile true go gospel the gompel which the savior saylor brought to the earth and ho lie testified that they cormons mormons Mor mons fircie preached lied the kame gospel as its the savior brought into world he ile gave them his warning warning voice that the god of heaven would shortly bring about his judgment upon the earth and it was for that causa causo he ile called them to go foith forth to the people of the earth to warn them as they were warned in the days of noah he ile hoped god would blaga them and enli enlighten ahten their minds that they might search for henig elves into their doctrines and prote prove for themselves whether they were of man or god elder leyland Loyland said the latter day saints were looked upon with a strange eye by the world of mankind and before ho he left england ho he was led to they did not believe iu in the bible but lie was prepared to prove that they not only believed in the bible but endeavored to practice with all their hearts tile sayings of the savior and liis his apostles he ile the speaker came from front utah but he lie was not anamer an american lie was born at newton nc ton heath and lived in lancashire until lie was thirty years old since that time he lie had resided among tile latter day saints and lio lie must say that lio lie had them to be a food good indu industrious arious peaceable and raw aw abiding people and one who persevered er severed to servo god and to benefit benefit the human family after elder hiaam had also algo testified to the truth oft of the he latter day work ork ft a controversy arose arm about a challenge concerning plural marriage on which elder brown offered to address the tile audience any evening A mcjohnson mr johnson who avowed himself as an all investigator proposing pro some queries as to the divine authenticity ortho of alio gospel as revealed to tho the prophet joseph E elder ider bron brown in reply referred red tha audience to the 85 realm psalm and the chapter of Issi issiah ali and having read t them hem aloud said david was v as a man appointed b by alie loid not only to reign reign as I lung ov over erl israel lilt bitt io to write toj psalms ims t to ab bs t aung ng in the congregation and most of those ps al ms were prophetic lit in their na nature and clearly hc spoke concerning the coining of the messiah and the great affliction that would conic come on oil him as the iino jine out of which should come the redeemer of the world ile also spoke of his second coming coin in and the great glory that would ho revealed on that occasion ct casion ision in ili order that the people should the knowledge of the truth he lie said truth ahall spring out of the earth and righteousness f enill look down from b heaven caven the latter day saints understood those thing hut but most of them the tile audience were strangers and probably not acquainted with some of the proofs which existed between the prophecies and tho the doctrine that they taught in the tile world there never rever would have been any any such people us its the latter day saints or 11 mormon had hadged god not manifested himself in the tile fulfil fulfill ment of the prophecies isaiah said they the should whisper low out of tile ground and their voice should be low fow out of the dust duft and that agreed precisely with the words of david and truth should spring sprin out oatlie of the earth with righteousness to look down from heaven and that the lord would again try his people and bring them back to their land he knew that it was the opinion of their forefathers for many generations af that god would not condescend to reveal anything new for the benefit of the human family in the tile third and fourth generation people cople were excommunicated if they relieved Eeli believed eved that god would reveal something new to the world the councils that were gathered together concluded that the canon of scripture was full and that the revelations from god had ceased the same was tho the idea of the people and they were excommunicated from both tho the roman catholic and the greek churches if they dared give vent to any other belief tho the game same belief had been handed down from front generation to generation and the same opinions prevailed that the canon cation of scripture was fulfilled the devil did not care how many principles they believed in so that they denied the most important one viz the communication of god with the earth if the devil could get the people to cut off communication willi with the lord ho lie had accomplished complis hed liis his object elder brown then gave a comprehensive preben sive account odthe of the reTe revelations lations of add to the from tho the fi first vision up tip to organization of the church and closed his narrative by testifying that peter james and john three odthe of the apostles one upon whom the keys of the kill kingdom were conferred appeared unto joseph smith laid their bands band u upon p his iiii licad lend and conferred upon 91 him li the tile priesthood and tho the keys of thel ingdon ing dom which not only gave him authority to baptize for the remission of sias sins but also a ISO to lay on hands for the reception of the holy ghost to bind on oil earth and they should be bound in heaven that gave him nu authority thorit to set up ill and establish the kingdom of god as predicted by tho the apostles apostle hence bence tha the kingdom of god having been established on earth according to tile prophecy rop licey of daniel it was to be established nevermore to bo be thrown down those were the grounds the they took they took it that they were ati all j the tile fulfilment fulfillment of scripture of the prophecies which joseph smith anew knew nothing about the fulfilment fulfillment of the words of isaiah i in a the 29 th chap the words of the tile book were taken to the learned and they declared that they could not decipher them they who received that gospel should know of a surety that it was the truth and lie and his brethren on liis his right b and left were witnesses before the faco face of the earth that god had bad spoken from the heavens ecna to joseph smith he ile testified to them that he was a prophet liet of god and although his trolliet trop body ody had been slain by wicked eI men lie was working in connection with tile saints and prophets who had lived in the tile various ages for tho the welfare odthe of alie human family mr johnson the investigator everal questions which betrayed earny the fact of his having imbibed a good portion of alic current slanders and fictions about the latter latte r day saints but his queries were invariably ansi answered vered in a way way which brov el c the unsubstantial character of the gent lemans information one of the questions was whether brigham B ighani young was not brought brough t to trial on the charge of wilful murder by the american government on account odthe of the mounta Mountain in feadow Mcadow massacre to which elder wilcox replied according to the report as follows Brig brigham bain young was in no way connected c acted with tho the massacre a as was proved at the trial of john D lee for as soon as he heard beard of it ho lie sent men to eo see that the csepany of emigrants were seen safely through to california but when the men got there it was too late the red indians had murdered them at the instigation of john de leigh john D lee who was found guilty city 20 years after the tile deed agu was as done and shot bv by order of tho US district court several other questions having I n asked the meeting terminated i |