Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-11-05

TO men. They will not be sitting upon
"a cloud, drumming harp aud singing
songe. We will not spend our days
throughout the endless ages OF eternity
In any such monotonous employment
M this. Iii delightful rs n recreation.
II II very nice to sing and TO have
music Mt intervals; but to follow II
up through eternity, and that DO our
sole occupation, II would be the most
dreary prospect that the human mind
could conceive OF. There wns con-
cert here last night. Would you like
to have one tonight, tomorrow night,
and the next night, and every night
for a week, aud have to go there to
sing and hear singing? Why, you
would get 70 tired Of II that you would
not know what to do with yourselves.
That IL not heaven. IL ~ one OF the
Joys Of heaven, but II Ia not the sole
occupation Of the redeemed. What
will be their occupation? The TX
crcse of that creative power
that our Father and God has exercised
In preparing this earth as the abode
for man. He called together the
elements aud formed the earth ~ n
habitAtion Tor man; ana man, n he IL
faithful, will progress until he will do
that very same thing for his posterlty.
Abraham, standing at the head OF an
innumerable posterlty, will find II
necessary to have room. He will want
TO emigrate after awhile from this
earth and find "A new habitation, for
there will not be room enough ON the
glOrlfied earth for him and his posterity
In the coming eternity. Thus II Is
that the heavens are bespangled with
the glorious orbs that we SEQ at night
the creations Of God, peoplcd by the
children OF God.
And ell this God promises to us, Il
we are faithful. He says, "Iou shall
DO kings, you shall be queens, you
shall sit upon thrones, you shall sway
see piers, and you shall have power and
dominion, II you prove yourselves
faithful and true to me; nnd you shall
be my heirs, and Joint heirs with my
beloved Son. Jesus Christ, your Re
! deemor." We have built temples that
within their sacred walls these holy
ordinances can be administered
and these promises given and
sealed upon the heads Of tn,
commenced to do many things that
/ VIII 1'N w hoho ~ thillNNs ohN w
have made a beginning. We have be
gun to seal, by tho authority OF the
Holy Priesthood, wife to husband
and where children are not born IN
the covenant, children to parents, OF
where they cannot be sealed to thell
parents, adopted 10 Others as psrents
Tor be II known, there must be- con,
Meeting link between every gen
GRAFTON aud dispensation from
our father Adam down TO tn,
present. And that will have to b,
done In the temples OF God. The mar
riages Of our fathers and mothers
that IL, those OF them who were mar
fied before God restored the Priest
hood--were not eternal marriages. They
married until death should them part
II was n covenant that they entertl
into. The priest that married then
had no more authority from the Lore
TO marry them than u justice Of tn,
peace has. These marrlsges We're re
oognized by the laws Of the land n
legal, but they did not extent
beyond this time; they were only
until death should them part
Now they have died, ant
the covenant that they made witt
each other terminated with death; 4
was no longer binding. How shsl
they be united for eternity? II tn,
family relationship be the true relation