Show BELIEVE IN PRE EXISTENCE OF SOUL OF MAN mormon church holds that spirit cannot be destroyed I 1 salt lake april 27 apostle orson F whitney vas as the principal speaker at the tabernacle yesterday afternoon there was a large attendance in the morn mornin ingland gand evening meetings wore were held la in the assembly hall apostle whitney spoke on the pre of the human soul lie he referred berred to many incidents in the bible relating to the doctrine and told of the of wordsworth in which he be treats of it and the scorn with which his works were received because of the allusion to this doctrine during his discourse apostle whitney said we believe in the preexistence pro pre existence of roan man and not merely of tho the son of god this doctrine was wag taught of old it was taught by the son of god it was taught by his prophets and we belion that it isan is an eternal truth it has hag been taught through all ages that we will live another life and that we existed before nye lye came into the present life mormonism declares that the pro existence of man Is an eternal truth and alid it also declares that the bible teaches this doctrine and that it Is as clear a doctrine of jesus christ as baptism we are also indebted tormod to modern modem prophets for proofs of this do doctrine and also to the head of this dispensation pensa tion joseph smith who found utterance to the effect that man was cheated in spirit before he was created physically but mormonism does not stop here mormonism further dge declares lares that all things all the earth were created in spirit before they were created Is as they appear today man cannot create spirit therefore man does not have the power to destroy it man alan cannot destroy anything that he does not have the power to create |