| Show SALVATION FOR THE DEAD Discourse Dollvorod In tha Tobornaolo Salt Lake City Sunday JAU I uary Bill 1805 by r ELDER ABRAHAM H CANNON t = fRtroRIt BV ARTHUR INTFR t I desire to bo filled with the Spirit ol I op i the Lard In performing Hill I duty t uhlch I has been assigned me this afternoon I I feel trill without this Holy Spirit my ords will be vain to myself as well as to the assembled congregation Just before coming to meeting this afternoon a gentleman made Inquiry of nina to the object ol HIM fine structure which stands upon the east side of this block l called the Temple lleauppoied I It was a place for public meetings and though lie admired the external appear once of the building I Interred from Ms comments that ho thoutht it Was a aste of means to erect luch a building far the private purposes to which it It I put I endeavored to explain to him sonteof the reasons why we built the Temple and why so much means were upended In making it beautiful Ve fell that there was no offering which poor mortals could give to the Lord that was too beautiful or too good and a home could not be too highly nobel I llthed which It was expected holy per nonages would visit and perhaps the Lord Himself would condescend to occupy oc-cupy at some time ICon I this reason among others we have felt la obtain our choicest workmen our most skilled nttlians our most talented artists to woik within and without that edifice to make II a place of beaut Thou who read the Scriptures will remember how much means and effort were expended 1 by the wise king Solomon in the construction con-struction ol that Temple whose beauty us It Is I described to us In the feeble linguae of man Is I still n source ol uch great wonJcrment We who be Iive In Ihe Hook of Mormon arc also Informed ol the labors 01 the ancient people ol God who dwell upon this continent south of us and who stibm ciucntly occupied portions ol this land In the erection ol templet to the name ol God To us these bitt ding are most sacred places They are the nhrinea at which we bring our offerings of love lor God and our fellow men particularly for our kindred who have died without a knowledge ol the truth and whose I salvation is measurably at least depcn dent upon the works ol their children I In the I flesh We have built temples I tar I the purpose of redeeming our dead I performing tar them those tiered 1 ordinances I ordin-ances which are necessary at the Scrip I lutes inform UIO salvation For we I believe that the Gospel which the Lord has revealed In these days and which Is I the Everlasting Gospel contains laws which it Is I necessary tar every creature I to obey In order to receive celestial cl I i We believe that God has established I In Ills Church a certain order which must be observed by Ills children If they would Inherit the glories concerning I concern-ing whlcli I tho Scriptures I aleb and for f which I nearly I every human I being Is I hoping We believe lao that there Is I but one Gospel which is I capable of I bringing to tlie children ol men the highest glory Wo behevo In one faith one Lord one baptism though we be lieve that there arc Lord many and Lad many ai the ancient Apostle said ind that bait operate In various directions direc-tions for tho bcncht of tliu children uf i men It operates upon them In such a manner as to give unto one the gilt ol wisdom unto another the gift 01 heal Ing unto another the gift uf tongues unit to others vallous gilts according to their capacities and iha will ol Gad In bestowing them We beileo that there b but one baptism that Is I recognized by Go and yet we tay there is also a baptism by fire as well as of water which o tfsrl rl Is ns essential t to the sal r vailonol the human family lIS the bII tUm of water Vet all these behclsof ours are comprehended In this one statement ol Iaul One Lord one faith ono baptism bIte Gospel which we have received hone which leaches us that nil man kind are the children 01 God that they are destined n to be laved excepting avery a-very limited I number who po luvly j l riject salvation turn agami Ibo light alter they have received II sin away the day ol grace and place themselves without the pale of the redeeming blood of Christ nut in saying that oil men shall be saved It is not saving that all men hall i receive an equal glory and exaltation exalta-tion In the presence of God No wo believe that In Ibo dwelling place ot i ur 1ullicr there are many mansions many degrees of glory suited to the capacity ol men unu wuincn and whliil I I will I be awarded to them according I to worki whlcn they have done in thu llcm and the Intents of their hcans To at lain the highest glory it Is necessary that men and women should possess 1 lliing faith not a faith which James describes without works anil consequently conse-quently dead 1 led that it is a pernicious pernic-ious doctrine In tome respects which Is I taught by the Christian world today that bchel I on tho Lord Jesus Limit re I Cardies ol works or ol ro obedience ti I he coiinnncia of God I sullicnnl 1 iay It is l pernicious because It loa Ire quently encourages len and women In I voiks ot darkness for the notion prc ails In many place that Ihe nun who confesses Christ with hit hp even though he be on liu deathbed can be Uihcred Into the presence ot God and i associate with holy being I that he hough II suspended between heaven ami I earth can go Into the presence ol God I and those holy beings who have died Martyr to the truin when his spirit leaves ill associations in motlahty Horn I whence of Ins It was driven because Ils Sinai Therefore loop theo is much of evil In this theory of men I is not u and I cctrine of Gnu Men may turn lutIst certain passages of scrlptun 10 J luitaln this Idea but It will not avail hem True Christ told Ills disciples logo Into all the world preaching the Gospel and tlioe who believed mould its saved and there are many passages which uy that belief I on the Lord Jesus Clulst shall rn mankind r Of c morse this belief It Mstmlal to the salvation nl the human family Kaith I ha 1 necessary lor their exaltation for It ha indeed the first principle I of the everlasting I ever-lasting Gopel Hut Ihe man who possesses pos-sesses faith without works Christ has likened unto the nun who built his house upon the sand and when the winds ond the storms CAt that man house fell because It was nut secure upon its fojndation Hut the man who ienrdwli t lie I Hid and did limo works whIch were commanded 1 by Jesiit was likened unto t the man oJe built hU house upon the rock and notwithstanding notwithstand-ing the Ulon ri that blew about I it crumb beau Its foundation was secure I believe that lher are many sincere believers In this doctrine that belief it all that I In ntceoary to salvation and audI I as there may nrl ol time people who are sincere 1 honor In their professions profes-sions but 1 believe there are many ministers min-isters ol religion who realize tlutthls doctrine It Incorrect and tint It 1 Is I In sumclent for the salvation of men Such need repentance such need to turn untu the Lord that they may serve Inn I and not only save themselves hu become saviors unto others whoa they I are placed to guide When A mm Is afllicted with a ills ease he theatre hit plijsiclan lo thug now carefully the cute and tell I him however palmul the rhA may be what I Is h necessary for lilt delivcMnce from him discisewltn which he Is I troubled Sane who their physicians are I A disgrace to Ihel profession will deceive people Into the behel thntthey II be will speedily rcslorci to health I OIrll the ordinary j > roce at nature whin II they were only to tell the t mil they would nay that some drastic measures were necessary to the savin of their lives I remember rendIng rend-Ing of a certain phvlclan In the cul utiri was called In to attend a very rich man WHO I had dl injured hit limb Me I I ex amincd It careluliyI he rich tnanln order lo give him nn Inducement to save Ihe llmo had told him that I he cojld tav I and his life ho would give him A large monetary reward Tie ductoit know I < de 01 tIme human s > stem gave lu him the lechng that In order lo save Hit nuns life Ihe limb would have to be amputated but hoping for reward lie deceived the patient under Ihe belie that perhaps I bo might recover and he did not tell him the real condition 01 the case The result was that gail I rttli g reeese t In and In a abort tint lImo I mans life was lost whereas I the plivsldan had taken the knilo and had severed the ufllicted member the lan Illo might have Len saved So too I the phvslclans of our souls would lake the kmle and separate I rom us the false doctrines theories and dogmas dog-mas which wo have Inherited and Im blued the soul might be save and pre served to become A choice instrumen In the hands of God Hut Instead ot this Ihe love of reward the hope of lnl gaining r the desire to preach for money and divine for hire prompt some men to pursue steadfastly a course which Iuruo human family und keeps them In Ignorance 01 the true doctrines uf Christ which men And women must accept In order to attali salvation in the kingdom ol God Thin Christian world continues singing this peaceful lullaby of llelleve on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou tlult bo saved and len guilty of every sin under heaven can according to the creeds of hIluileot mailc IQU accordIng accord-Ing to the doctrinal of GoJ secure br thcnuclves salvation and exaltation In the presenca of God We do not wan to deceive ourselves with this notion Lven Latterday Saints who I proless li have accepted the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ need not suppose for ono moment that because 101nt Iha they ore baptized because hands have been laid I upoi them lor the reception of lime J iluhy Ghost and they have had n testlmon ol the truth that their salvation Is I sc cure for If they depend upon a dad fahh for their calvillon they too wil find that they have missed their aln r11hY Ih and that I faith without works Is I dead aiim1 of no value I have heard a legend told of lime Desert of Sahara There Is I a clump of trees ltuaid In one of the most dma late spots In that great arid region Th roots of the I trees are fed bv hidden 0011 II l g undiicoverablo piln t and in the shad of those trees the weary traveler I tempted to sit dawn anil rest and as ho I rcst thu wind whistling through Iho leaves lulls him to sleep and he dream of home nncl Its pleasures and gradual he lo olAI consciousness I and il his shriek takes Is 1 flight his physical 1 crganlsn having bean poisoned I I by the odor fron the trees and time surrounding ground 1 looks as though mankind were In this condition We are templed by the plan tible 1 theories of men to pay n little fa our religion and thus be lulled to t sleep picturing In our Imaginations the beauties beau-ties cf eternity until we gradually pas away from nllta and find that our sleep has been the sleep of death eterna death because wo have neglected Ihe opportunities which Dad has placed I In I our way for our exaltation I Is I Ihe duly of the Latterday Stint to preach to the world the Gospel of thaI tha-I SOl of God to chide them for their tins to reprove them for tnelr iniquities tj cucouriga them in everything that Is I good and ennobling but to be fearlci I etrJ in Ihe defense and proclamation or truth Tor truth will be sustained 1 I may or the time seem to be ovcrcom by the sophistries ol men Hut God ls I nt the foundation ol truth and as bhn will stand ho will all that which enia nates from Him stand t endure I ml I lime and In eternity Upon this hitOylo rests the duty ol crying repentincr I ttillll this gtneration fX fII them faith In I God that Ihere Is an existence herca tee that not as the tree lalleth an shall it lie lot ns our bodies I see placed in Ihe tomb so will Ihey forever remain but there will coma a lime In the oxperienc of every soul when the spirit will reunite re-unite Ilielf with the body and thus men will appear before God and ba callec I upon ru give an account of the hinds done In tho flesh Tin ll which we desire men lo receive Is the faith which nrkt miracleswhich boos the power I to alse the dead oslo life he powtr lo commune with God and to receive Ills SpIrIt In tuch a measure as to mike men antI women prophets and prophetenoi Thin Is I the faith which wo desire to Im plant In the hearts ol the children of llitn we want them to be filled with time spirIt of repentance which follows hulk and which Is I the natural result of aitlt In God for I men are filled with faith In the Father and In Ihe Sun they wl 111 niturally desire to place 1 themselves I hllUI condition la be fit associates for uch holy beings and Ihey will look lck upon their past lives Ito I with sorrow willm a sorrow which will I prompt them I to In more righteous more God fearing more upright In tho future Then re enlance of tin will come upon them it row t ne as the mi r lerer poI po-I not Mich A men Icel 1 who art allot lu account In bIte flesh for ihelr rlmevand who when the penally U I Mid go back lo their Iniquities and only fad 1 to tin because the opportunity ta do to li lacking but a repentance that rompl men tu make restitution 1 far a is II Is I powible or them to do su for he sins which they have commuted ando hi o restore fourtold If necessary In order or-der lo obtain pardon for Ilia wrong lone a repentance which will keep be fare our minds continually the view of our own sinfulness our own weaknesses and fill us with a dele lo avoid the tint and weakettr of Ihe pail t Hill is I he repentance which worketh salvation 10 the souls of men and prepares them to receive any ordinance how ever hu nillatlng it may b considered They will then go Into the waters ol laptism they will do anvthlng cite In irmher to receive a forgiveness of their e hcWr uio I They will be burled In I the water ns Christ wash they will come forth GUI if the water new men Ulne off the oh I Adam I the old I tlnfulnett oflheir lives and determining that thereafter hIde lives ihall conform A near at 1 > osslbt < to ihd divine which ChrIst o Iho pittern Chls set Then they lllc be prepared to have tIme Holy 1 Ghoit conferred upon I them tlh1 Its iKjweis gifts I and blessings try the administration of men cl pos ness the authority to act In the name 01 Christ This Is the same power which lesu conferred upon Hit di clplei In lines of old and which made them inch mighty men In the midst of an tin believing wurld I gave them the courage to tufler their bodies to b tnr bored their lives to be taken still I prals log the name ela Gail kj gave thci trcngtli to withstand every trmptallo ind to past through every trial till clinging to the filth I I which God 1 htod 1 given them that faith which brings out II trouble salvation and blessing I b I hIlls spirit and this filth which have gain vied 1 this people together from every nation of the globe and enables then lo testify I of the restoration of the I lot lte J il ttI pel ol the ban ol Gad and to tell ol ill solemn language that ihe Iord has a ala spoken from IU time heavens revealed Ills ospel called His servants to gu forth for the last time 10 teach to tho work lime plan of salvation that before the end comes every people upon tilewitale I earlh I may bear I Ihe I aroUnd of Ilia halls and receive or reject It as seemeth them good ll is this spirit received Ilirougl I ho layIng on ofliandi thai gives oar Illders tile strength t to go to Ihe nation I f of the earlh and r t the t Gospel I en during hardships nOlo every kind perse rT 11 cutlons and even suffering death to testily of the truth which the Lord Imas restored lo the carth And this relored carh is I the plrit which every nun and woman will ccclve who accepts the Gospel of tire Lord Jesus Christ Hut taytone how can you coped men and women to receive these doc trlnes We have jour testimony lint what other evidence do tetmollY lInt this Is I the truth Wo only nlk you to place to the test that same request lilcll leans made ot Hit disciplct i I and people I in iln day when I He sld to then My daclilne Is n lta mine but Hit I that mItt me If any man will do Ills IIi lro shall know of the doctrine whether It 1 be ol I Gad or whether I speak of my sell We say to the people of teo o ri today Do nut accept our testimony alone Von have I beard I the words wide the rldcrs have spoken you have r their diligence In visitIng the nations 01 Ihe earth you have heard ol Iha rostora lion of lie ttiith now lliteii no furlhe tu these men but appeal I directly tu God Seek Him In I I prayer exercls faith In Him and He If hell you for yourselves whether or not this doctrmo is His I or the doctrine of men You Iced not accept the testimony of any nun concerning this religion You led not receive bipilsm until IOU joursclves are converted through Iho workings ol the Holy I Spirit tc upon ouhltat I spirit which lh Gad alone can bistow and at which I men cannot give except as they are nude the Instruments under God ofexercllng the authority which He I has restored tu the earth You can Ih the Almighty hI our closets Ha I Is I not a God that Is afar off not ono whose ears are closed or whose arm is withdrawn from Ills children 1 1 but He Is a God whosa eya is ie upon tha humblest I t creature t I tel iv of every race and color and whose love Is extended ffoAI c1 whole humin family It Is I lo Him that you should appeal for a testimony of the truth of this work ht it which the Lord has established 11A If you will do lliis In humility and In rf we have no fear as to the results of your pra > crs for God will bear and answer every soul I know the prejudice which has existed exsld and which now exists against this Church but It it I only a renewal of the old lime prejudice thai existed In tIre day of Jesus and at every time when the Church ol God has been upon tho earth Men however have got 101 become be-come so humble that they arc willing lo endure persecution for the name of Christ and if they cannot maintain their standing through all the trills of ther IIe then they arm unworthy of their calling as fallowcrs of the meek and lowly Jeonl Now going still further we find that this I tame Gospel will ct be preached and iso now being I preached to tlie spirits behind the veil ihe spirits ol mel and women who have died In the ages that aru past Does II eel a fanciful Idea thit these beings who colat today A much m they ever did though In a dlf ennuI condition hirtl tl having ihe Gospel preached to them I U Is I know a new doctrine to the world It was still newer m Ibm day when It was fit announced by the 1iopliel Joseph hnilib under the lnsplralionil God At thai lime It was new to teach the first principles of the Gospel which now find minyadvocates union dircrent sects nnd parlies and this doctrine far limo dead wa also new True It existed In some tort 01 mazv lew condition A belief In this doctrine In luiio fur Hted In the minds ol many people It Is Illustrated In hhjr PMIII of the Catholic church who from nine mmemorlal haY htl < l m asco for Ihe dead believing tint through Iheir pray era tome Indescribable I working could le bad upon the tpirlls of mell anil omen who basIl I I pau1 Ay In 010 traveling In iurop I found III one ol the Canton ol hull erlmil n place all lt removed froel clvlllntion this Idea prevailing to a very marked extent and was iliut ated r In 1 an el Incident which wm del ribed by A family wbo afterwards olned the Church A man who was ontlderetl an Infidel nnd upon whom he Priest had olHrtod l for many years revlout to Ins doith happened la puss way ooH left I td behind II film a widow 551111 eevsrsh grown up daiiithlert Some illtle means 0 Ml tO them and after tIme death and burial of Ihu man the plet came around lo visit the family lIe told the woman shin A a d vat Catholic that the night before he nd hiesml vllled by the spirit of her dead mibinJ He had t ei h r hu > band clothed In black ralimn Hi lounten aneo lowering because of nn mlwry and Mid lie Your husband told me hat 1 should come to you and aik tint I be paid to uy mats for his soul The wor widow accepted Ihe statement ol he priest and cave of her meant so hat tier butband might bo redeemed at he believed from the great misery In which he was placed because of hit un be lef while In the flesh After two week hI he pr alt again came and said he had hAd i another viit from her huh ind He saul hit countenance had brightened omewluit and he had noticed that one ialf of hU body was while and the other half was black that I he wsm only 1 hair rcdeemcd nnd with tire expendi lire of a little more money be could he bully redeemed So she gave him tome iioio money Ihe third time lie came with the same excuse and e ractctl roin the widow a little more mea > Ills fourth appeal however so ditgust ed I the lady that the told him ol her nut rand would have to suffer I the payment pay-ment 01 morley was necessary to hit edemption fIlls It I an extreme Instance In-stance and I believe very ow tucli occurrence can be founJ In the world Hut this cale to my personal knowledge I knowl-edge Sjme Idea of this doctrine of tilvttlon for the dead I at prevailed In H vague and Indlst nc way in iha mlndt ml f many people veil I it but the glimmering il I helight wlncli undoubtedly WU ibeil 0 mOn the I i arm especially I In tIne hcnrls mtf Ihe saints In the days I nl I tj Jrsnt fur hey wllhout question understocHl this doctrine of salvation for the dead True lvtn here are very few passages in scripture to produce 111 prool 01 this but one very willed l 1 rein irk ol Paul gives evidence hat the saints to whom he was writing understood this principle 1 for he said unto them In lImo course of an epistle on the resurrection and the glories of the future Else what shall 1 Ihey I a du which are baptized for the dead I thu dead rise not at all Then we read In IcIer ol Jesus Himself having gone while Hit body lay lu the lomb I to visit tile pIN In prison What lor Tu lulhll the prophecies ol ancient men that lie should go and throw 0011 the iiriton doors and say tu Ihe captlv cCome orth This was the mission Jesus had to fulfil Only part of Ills work was done when He was crucified on Mount Calvary I was necessary for Him Ihe Redeemer the only person whose name svmll I bring salvation to mankind upon tIre earth to throw open the prison I doors of those who were captive and who had been suffering since the djt of Noah because of their tins You tcrlploriani know that when Noah wag upon tIme earth JIII vvai necessary In order g check the evil which I I I prevailed 1 that the Lord should tend a Hood to destroy the human family What could that AliMercllnl lIming whom we worship destroy Ills children Yes because death meLt salvation to them They were sinning I I away the day of grace Ihey were going to those limits where i the saving power of the Redeemers blood could not reach them and In mercy and love far those children the Lord tent a flood to destroy them that there itl come I Rd day In the future when rciiemptlon and salvation should coma to them Jesus ai lire Savior ot the world had this mission to perform of going to these spirits In prison and throwing the doors thai open door they might coma forlh and receive the blessings bless-ings which their brethren and listers In the fleih were receiving under the nd ministrations I of the Apostles of iha I LordWhen When Jesus said to the thief In nnsw er to Ills request Today thou shall be with ma In i dJ He I did 1 nol mean lhal the thlcl vile and corrupt would go Instantly I Into Iho presence ol God but he should go to paradise I whore I Jesus Idji Himself I went Lven at the last moment w hen the bre III was leaving his hody as ha showed true repentance did ha go Into a place of rent mIld peace The heathen do not go lo bell because they have not heard the mine of Jesus They are not thrust Into darkness because be-cause the sound of the Gospel hat lever rnached their cars No God forbid that this should be the catch I Is not ono of tho attributes of the Lord to be unjust or unmerciful to Ills I children and would It not be Injustice chldrn It not ba the height ol uncharitablcneit to thrust out from hope nnd from salvation men and women who rI through no fault I of their own had never bean f the Gospel or the name of Jesus It certainly would be Hut this It not the case np men as olha told us by tha nncient Irophct who have lived righteous I I lives I upon the earth though they t have not received the Gospel rfl fullness when they die go to a stale of rest and peace and there they reniiin and gradually adVance ad-vance In the way the Lord has provided until they receive their exaltation and lsve IItai old glory In the presence of God Joseph Smith just J after receiving the revelation of this Gospel was concerned about his brother who had died without the truth anil tha Lord opened the heavens hea-vens to him that he might tee his brother In a slate of joy and peace and exaltation to a certain degree So Ir the veil be v1 could withdrawn today we would see our loved ones those who have died In the centuries that have passed and who have lived according to the light which God has given them In a state of happiness mid peace No trouble t oh tossing about t In Ito lake of lire and brimstone Hut the wicked whither they belong to any church or not go Into a condition that Is likened to a place of lire arid brimstone not n literal one but whcro Indeed lIme torture 01 hell are endured Iosslbly every one of us has experienced In our lima what those tor lures are lIme torture of the mind are Incomparably greater than the tortures of the body The pain which we suffer Ill the flesh dwindles Into Inilgnlflcanre I 1 11 comparison with the milterlngi which we undergo from n tender conscience that has teems seared I Ul IJltlerday Sointt lire building Temples lor the pampas of redeeming hour dead Ueucemnif Iheni ° tCiI j etui said that unless n man U I born of raler and ol the tlprlt he cannot enter the kingdom of heaven Ha did not online It to Iha people living In the cthat tlut time but He rxionded I t i the whole human fimllv Canoe uenlly It applies with equal force to louse who r dd u to Iliise who are ivlng and for tiitcausa Ihe Apostle Peler savO was the Gospel I preached I solo them that lire dead that they might be RIdged according to men in thee the-e h but live according to God In Ilia Alllt Those who have paoed away will I e judged uccoidlng tu men In Ihe hirsch but lucy r1 ontv ti li very evl ilool lIre according tu God In the spirit because they are In Ihe tplrit I hover ho-ver they elect the Gospel there certainly cer-tainly their condemnation wilt L at real at that ol any mortal who rejects It yet I think t tha caws Ibr very few flhotewho in 1 bits I spirit world reject Ihe Gospel of the Lord Jctui ChrKI You can very well 1 understand this when III Ilr ou think of how you would feel If ou lad been In prison fur year havingcon lantly before your mind the thought ol poor misdeed w Inch had brought ynu to such punishment Wash I you not welcome Cic Ilay when any person would came lo you and throw open the ntoti doors Hnd say Ga forth yr apllve OIOyour Inure forgiven you Vc would naturally be eager to accept the deliverance liras oflercd When title doctrine wu fit revealed to Joseph Smith I seemed at though imullaneouily therewith a spirit lab toured out upon men In II the world to begin lo netrcii nut Ills line of their nn Cesiry and it It J remarkable act that J tu lierc ran been a spirit 1 poured out upon he people m bile New Kngland Stales especially to trace lli lr genealogy luck 10 Ihe Iuriun Iuthi rt and thence lu he countries m Luiope whence their ancestors emltmicd H ukt abbot without number hive hen published giving tha line of descent of imtiy notable families In this country What I til Why It It I the fulfillment of ihe irophecy found In the last of the old crlpturet uttered by Malachl that I w ill send you Lhjah the prophet bclore he coming nih t the ureal nnd I dreadlul day of Ihe Lord mill he shall turn Ihe heatt of die fathers to the chlldnn and the heart of the children lo their father lent I cOle and smite Ihe earth with I curse The hear of Ibe children are evident lurnul towards their fathers and they are seeking all the names and historv that they ran gather pertaining 1 to HitIrancetry The Latterday Salnis recognlie I tins us n speclil providence I of God because by thit 1 I meant Ihe monIes ofthote whu ale dead are being gathered gath-ered so thai ihe work can be tone In these temples so thai Ihelr kindred or friends can be baptited for them that their records can be found complete In Ihe Lambs Ilook of Life Thee meant are being used by the Latterday Saints to not only trace their tt rl tt otrtl own ancestry t but alto l to da the work fur those who have no reprotetitatlvc In the Church of Christ upon bile earth Great sums ol money are being expended expend-ed in these directions and Ibis work will go on and while we do not expect to complete It before the dawn of the Millennium which U nearer than many of us anticipate we du expect that in shim thousand pears of real this work will conttantly grow and that buildings tucli at tIlls Temple and still greater will be erected on the lace of tIlls land hey I will be filed with loving posterity pos-terity with I children whose hearts are rIW earning tor the salvation I of their I kin l ilrcd dead Hut what knowledge we have today we should uilllic We should not nvglect the opportunities which we now have of laboring In these Temples I know of many people among us who have received ome information in-formation concerning ihelr kindred but l IAI 03 II f N Ihey think the work is to slight that they are pusponlng it day after day and some of us will die without having done this work which our kindred ore expecting ex-pecting us to perform for them Then let me ask you how will we appear before our dead ones Shall we nay to them we were so cngrossed In business and In the things of life thai we could r not find time to do something for their re demption and exaltation I Imagine we will feel then something at least of the a 7 f lorlures ofliell forllic hell which I I I rx ec to Inherit If I tin It the hell of duty neglected of opportunities postponed post-poned and falling to do thing which my conclence I tells me I ought to do Now I want lo say In passing tu the Latterday Saints if you Iaulnl only succeeded suc-ceeded In obtaining the name of ono of jour loved ones who Is I dead do not allow n day 10 when the pas wh1 opportunity oppor-tunity Is given pun without doing hIlls I work for that one oulI have no hesitation In saying that ihuse who will seize upon the opportunities thai are given llieni and will du the work for those vvhose names and gcneilogles I they have j laUfl will find the way open before them and names will be given to them either by human agencies or by the revelations of tltllkr 3a lo them lc directly I know of num r bore ol Instances thai go to prove this I cal only mention perhaps one A man who had the lama of seven of Im dead and who thought It of too smal moment to make the trip to Mali tc work for them In Ihe Temple this Temple In bait Lake was not complete eda to Rlo then was edao go nnd was promised I that If he went ho would soon find ihe way to obtain other names He fore no had completed the work for the seven he learned of a society in the cut to whom be wrote t dc received Imme I diately a book containing the names am the direct ancestry ol more than three thousand ot his kindred Thus a work was opened up before him which be bias < not yet ben able to accomplish Thi fsottt experience tcro many Latterday Saints who have worked In tha Temples Tem-ples I fear thai we are drawing away 100 much from Ihese sacred ordinances and forgetting the lIlIes which we owe to I the I fctling Another thing which Is of more serious seri-ous consequence perhaps to ui who are I sm II Uje trl living Is the fact lint we are lergctting tho duties which we ovvu to ourselves In receiving our partners In life We do not apprechtu It seems to me the priv ilege of being sealed for lime and clcr IIV lIllY Whatl family organlMtlont In the olher world I imagine the startled fe < I hog which takes pouanslon of somu people at tho thoughi of f fimily lr government govern-ment behind lime veil nnd ihelr minds will revert to tho sa Ing of the Savior that In Ills resurrection there is I neither marrjlng nor giving t In marriage Hut remember lIla people to whom af was speaking then liter dId not belIeve In lIme resurrection ttiere dlnJI neither marrying nor giving lu marriage In eternity IlIIarylnl ltvin hIlly liecause t such Ihingt must b doe bestowed which here The power Jeiu btoo ipon Ieter that whatsoever he tiound on earth should he bound in heaven and whatsoever he loned 1 on cirlli should ba looted 111 lieaven bloat tame potter exult In lIre Church of Christ to day mitl len and women can b tealed here In the flesh and know that they are sealed or eternity 0 well as time And there It no power thai can separate them I excepting their I own unfaithfulness unfaithful-ness Women who think to escape Ihelr husbandt who are faithful men and gut away from them r deceiving them silves They are icaled to their husbands hus-bands for time and eternity and lulu the of the land w hie court hld may jparile them for time the power I li not conferred upon any hum n court to separate mtn and women In eternity Anl That power Is I held by God alone or < the man In whom He bat delegated that authority And the children will lie bound to theo lat and mothers In eternlly The family organisation will exist ilieru I exiils Here today You know that God In hraven Is our Father le 11111 At the head c1 I this human family We are Hit iffsprmg and here we tee uxemplifieil tile very experience through which wo will pan II we are faithful I We will 1 tome day be gods gods ol 1 our own posterity r we perform tile duties required ot ui lure and adopt tile principle which will make ut worthy lo b united In eternlly Jut otherwise we will boss the angels of heaven If we are worthy of inch a blessing I as being Ihe angels of heaven I abed nIb 0 are they ep They are ministering servants exalted and pure though they are to thoso who hove received the greater and mar eternal weight of glory When I hear of young mel and women raised In thIs Church who should have Inherited Ihe lallh ot the Gospel who thould have nursed I at their mothers breatts who should have it Instilled Into them from their earliest years tvlien I her ol them neglecting these blessings which are held out 10 I hem ll pains me indeed it paint ma torcl r I know this is the work of God I know that He lias established It never Illume lo be overcome Individuals may fall our knees may tremble and alter our faith may become dim we may lose lImo testimony which we now nosucss hot thit work 01 God cannot be overcome over-come by any acts of ouri by our apes I taiy by our failure lu tuslam I or withdrawal of our memnershln in the Church ThIs II ll destined J lo sland on the earih and ll will gather within II Ihe good ihe noble me righteous lo tle rlthteou and tile holy of all people There will be many who will not become members 0110 still yet acknowledge Ihe glory ol iammir Ihls is lot raid In n boastful pint because I say 10 you Ihlt Is not the work of man Ant while weak feeble men are used aa tlie instrument for cconiphshlng Gods purposes the mal who take any glory tu Inmelf for the doing uf any good stands upon danger 10 UIOI out ground and will certainly lose the aith unless lie putt from him that Irt 01 pride and tollexaltation This work It I detuned to grow and Incieaie In power In majesty and In glory unu every saul upon the face ol the eartl who Is honest has received the truth and thoe who will not receive bIle truth will yet brow 1 the knee to Him who thai be the King and the Iord even Jesus hol Christ the Redeemer ot the earth I lay to every tool pelt today Ir 1 we cannot do at God has commanded us let us al least encourage wiihln our solves I the tpirlt to do tome I lillla good far ourtalvet and othersto be filled with wih charily and love for our families nnd tube rl faI II be kind tu the creatures t thai God ha placed upon Ibis His I earth I hold that we have not the Jiglil lu unnecessarily like bIle even the life ol the bumbles rlto that craw Is upon the ground 11 1 Ia Illustrated in the lesson which Jusept hnutli laught to one of lIme members of icins eanin There were mukinakF in rile camp and one of the brethren was about to kill them Joseph with leldluni He tatd low do wih 1 net enmity to cease between t man and uetut If lt continually leek to IrI Ille animals He said lat if we wouK banuli from our hearts this spirit lo destroy and murder lIme day would lon come when the lion and the lamb would lie down logcllier and the little child should play with tho must venomou reptiles without hArm At If I to verify his words two or three days later one ol the brethren laid down to sleep Upon the ground and when he awoke there laid between hit arm and head n large rattlesnake cole up and though U ssan 1 aroused It made no ellort to strike and they drova it quietly out ot the camp Ir omt carl seo tho power mI klndnes even uniong dumb brute We have hIll light I tu lake that which we oar givo life except I In cases where cil Is necessary neces-sary for food Hut I say to you my brethren and sisters and to mysell let us be ligent In the wotlcof God Let us be laitiitul I lu kepmg lIre crsemmamla which we Have made fhtl God ei ware w-are though we are weak and humble tn I lIfer the Lord will ex lit us in eternity And 1 be lure of this that I we tremble If our laces blanch if our knees shake I our lips quiver still I Ills word ol Goi is established upon the rock which cat not b shaken God li its author arId it will stand And if we cannot receive Ihe full faith of the Gospel let us stil not put forth our bands to liaini in drot elil work but sland still and lee tIle oslva I lon bf God Amtn |
