Discourse 1887-04-07
ENCE]], SALT LAKE CITY, ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON, .
(Reported by Arthur Winter.)
WHILE the Sacrament is being passed
to this congregation, I will try to
make a few remarks; but whether or
not I shall be heard by this assembly
I cannot say.
If after the scene we have passed
through during the last hour any man
can answer his mind and satisfy him-
self before an assembly of this kind
to occupy the position that I do, un-
less he is assisted by the God of Is-
rael, he is made of different material
to what I am. That which we have
had before us this afternoon is a testi-
mony to heaven and earth that what
has been presented here could not
have been witnessed in the midst of
any other people on the face of the
earth, unless that people were the
children of God. Here we have had
ten thousand men and women lift up
their hands in a vote to sustain not
only the Presidency of the Church
and the Twelve Apostles, but other
men in their various positions, and
without a dissenting vote. Where on
the earth can a scene of this kind be
seen except among the Latter-day
Saints?
I feel it my privilege, right and
duty to now make a few remarks
with regard to myself and the deal-
ings of God with me. But before
doing that I will say that the Lord
has never set His hand, in any age of
the world, to perform a work among
the sons of Adam, but He has pre-
pared an element for that work. You
will see this in the whole history of
His dealings with the human family.
It is so in the generation in which we
live. The God of heaven, having set
His hand to carry out His great pur-
poses and decrees, which have been
revealed in the records of Divine
truth, has been under the necessity
of preparing a people to take hold of
and to perform the work which He
has decreed should come to pass. Ten
thousand of that people are before
me to-day, with tens of thousands
throughout the land.
