Show fon for r the dw DESERET evanka NEWS A 1 i w WE ARE WE WERE AND ARE TO BE momentous though thoughts thoughts fall of interest n terest to each reflecting minli mind the knowledge of oar preexistent pre existent state Is deeply veiled I 1 lahne impenetrable cloister of forgetfulness until the spirit of the thi el eleving living iving god which breathed in daniels mind the Thet fream forgotten by the haughty king of babylon reveals to us ug the mystery god Is our father and we dwelt with hiril him r ere earth wat was temporally organized to 0 carry ont out eur our fathers great designs involving our eternal destiny and aad our oar relationship to him and earth we gave our oar free and uncoerced consent tar to the consequences and abide whatever the result and take our chance in this probation this our second state bat mark the danger which we bravely dared by yielding all the wealth of memory all recollection of primeval lie we of our oun exalted royal origin with all th experience and the gathered stores of rich intelligence and wisdom drawn from flowing streams of sources infinite with all of knowledge we hat hal treasured when associated with the highest class of pure all Is laid aside and we come forth upon the earth in total ignorance and at our oar birthl commence Com menca a life as though we nefer neer had been with all to learn from helpless babyhood to highest man hoods fullest fallest broadest ap sphere here were here todal to nill fill a noble destiny this present life la Is but a middle state A short connecting link between the two Ete mitie the past and future of our oar own identical existences the future we ara are hastening fo to tb e past though all forgotten we by honor honoring inz ing oar our mortal being may antici anticipate pata in the high aiming heava heavin directing path lanta almans progression an attai attal attainable nabie attractive point to which the present past rast and future all cont converge er e where memry long dethroned dethroner resuscitated with full fall resumes its hway and the dare dara curtain of forgetfulness Is rent asunder and asif with ken of deity well gaze i on all the scenes and ail the sceneries connected with our former being and Oard oar our first high parentage in spirit birth including knowledge of those kindred ties and all the dear associations formed by friendship and by fond reciprocal affection 0 how interesting is the thought I 1 I 1 oft desire yet almost fear to know the sequel of the hidden past ofay of zay jay great life experience life before the morning stars their lotty lofty paeans sung and all the sonson sons of god shouted for joy 11 how well for those who kept their first es ea tate late in that most terrible of all revolts trig the bold rebellion in tb the e courts above when lucifer the sought to wrest from its legitimacy and appl apply y its functions to unholy purposes I 1 cis Ms no vain thought no phantom of the brain TP anticipate the time when the long spell of strange forgetfulness forget falness oblivion wraps around the sleeping mem in rles ries of the past shall be dissolved the cne gates gatei ajar at once the panoramic vista moves along with recollections mirror unobscured and the great volume of primeval life unsealed will be unfolded leaf by leaf and every secret of development anterior to our nether birth disclosed with every phase of be being inc ing every shade of hightland light land dark or good or ill or mixed in each self woven web of character true as strange and angi anji strange as true that this event secure in our great future lies ere man had fallen from the high altitude oj 01 his primeval standing on ou the earth 1 and from the presence of the deity by wisdom infinite a righteous plan had been devised by which falth faith in the atoning blood of jesus christ our own oar elder brother in the spirit world gods only son begotten in the flesh and chrol obedience obed oded yence lence to his gospel which wail wali was wag preached to ad adam am seth to enoch and to noah moses and to abraham ta the glorious everlasting gospel which with all its gifts and blessings priesthood powers gowers its ordin ordinances alices arices and authority hes has been restored to earth shrol bro joseph josephj smith he may regain rellin the holy presence of the great eternal and may een elen transcend the rank he beheld hell held in eden ere the fall pall throughout the whole vast universe of worlds each kingdom has its order and its laws and eawh each its corresponding glory tool there Is one the bunone sun off orm i 1 the dhe moon another of the sten stars and as ju the in glory differ each from each y ao 80 so la Is the resurrection of the dead i who honors the celestial law Is s sura sure celestial glory that jaw to gain 1 so with terrestrial ana and th the multitude of 01 the glories and their laws man hian a as free moral agent has the right and power to choose his future destiny throy his adherence to whichever law or code he shapes his we life the fullness of the everlasting gospel if atte tt e son j j of god con contains lains the perfect law perfections fall proportions are attained with immortality and endless liven lives E R snow SAO SA sno O salt lake city may 1871 1371 |