Show HOLD BELIEf Ir IN INI I ETERNAL LIFE Mormon Church Preaches the Doctrine of PreExistence of Human Soul Before Birth FROM EVERLASTING HEAD TEACHING IS NOT BY ANY MEANS NEW ONE Dr James E Talmage was the speak speaker er at the tabernacle yesterday afternoon There was a large attendance Dr Tal Talmage Talmage Talmage mage spoke of the time preexistence of the human soul and cited many passages from the Scriptures ur substantiating that belief His discourse In part follows Is this religion of ours Mormonism old or new newt Are we behind the times in practicing such a religion or are we satisfying a desire for that which is novel and strange There is nothing new about It it except that it is being preached to an extent never reached before In the his history history history tory of man This religious system Is old rather than nOw new n w still it is not behind the times or untried Of 0 our many principles the belief n the preexistence of the soul or often spoken Df f as the tho state of primeval childhood is not new We e believe that the present life liCe is Ia but a connecting link between what has gone before and what will come Man being the son of an anett eternal ett rna father is eternal also We Ve did not come into the system for the first time when we were born but hut we existed before then There is a relation between the life we w e had before we camo on earth and the me life we live lve now There shall also bo be a relation of the time life we live now and Great the life Divide after we have passed beyond the Lesson of Christ Few Fe who the works of Jesus Christ doubt his hiB pre While he walked and talked among men did dd he lie not isk sk his disciples what they the would think If he ascended to the place where he had been before he came on earth He descended on earth to return to his father when he had completed ed his mission to mankind mankind Did not our great prophet In this coun country country country try say sa that men should come on earth and take mortal bodies but after he be had laid down the mortal body he hould should re return turn again to a spiritual form We Ye do donot donot donot not tur remember the scenes through which we passed before befort we came to this life lit Our memories are thickened but there are times when our thoughts and memories clear and we are able to see things timings that passed cear That same power enables enable man mn to see what will come between now and death Not New Belief Belef belief In preexistence of the hu human human Thil man Soul Is not new It I was not new newin newin newin in the days of Gf the Saviour This doc doe doctrine doctrine trine Is day as ol old oki T as the history of man We Ve have existed through eternities that have passed and we are arc new only In respect to our surroundings s and if It wan uan be b eternal In respect to what has passed uan he will b be eternal in respect to what is to come Mormonism is as old as ourselves and we weare weare weare are from tram eternity to eternity to |