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

upon the people and preparing
the people for eternity. We have
come 10 the earth for that purpose.
We have not come here 10 be
like 40 many animals--to eat, drink
and die. That IL not the purpose that
God had In view In sending Us here.
We are filled with the aspirations OF
Deity. We have great and godlike
qualities lying latent and undeveloped
within us; but they will he developed,
for We are the offspring d God, and He
wants to make us like Himself. That
Il why He has cent us here; not merely
to eat and drink, but TO prepare our
live In eternity? | said In the begin
world did not tell us anything about
this, for they did not know. VIII
husband know his wife? VIII wife
know her husband? VIII there be- any
closer tie between the husband and
the wito In eternity than between the
husband and q strange woman or the
wifo and strange man? 81 think
moi" the religious man Will cay; "rhe
Savior saye there IL no marrying
or giving In marriage In the res
direction, and think, therefore, that
We will all live separately" Well,
how about these delightful associations
that we have In this lie? How Ia 1t
that when men are separated from their
wives, or when women are separated
from their husbands, they frequently
die themselves? How Ia II that mothers,
when they lose loved child, almost
feel rs though they wanted TO die, too,
and do sometimes die through grief?
Are these affections anything? Are
they to be obliterated? Arc none Of
them 10 survive the resurrection? Are
we TO be mixed like 30 many cattle In
eternity? IL that the fate which awaits
men and women, created In the image
OF Godp Is the provocative power 10 be
lost-that gilt which Ia the greatest that
God has given to a human being2 Are
all these affections that are 30 delight
full and 80 tender to be crushed out
and never have room for expansion7
Why, II 10 the most hideOus thought
that can be presented to rejecting men
and women. No; God has taught us
better than this. He has revealed to
US that these relationships that are 30
tender and that make life 80 delightful
will exist beyond the grave. Wife will
be united TO husband. Children will
be united TO parents. The family reln-
tionship will exist In eternity, and the
glory OF q man and woman will be IN
dwelling In the midst OF their pos,erity
and seeing that posterity Increase. For
after God seemingly had exhausted
every blessing that He could give IA
Abraham, or that human heart could
desire, lie took him out aud showed
him the stars Of heaven and said L
him; SIN blessing | will bless thee
and In multiplying will multiply thy
seed as the stars OF the heaven
and as tho sand which |,
upon the sea shore" That seemet
TO be the crowning blessing tn,
blessing OF all blessings--that He pro
nounced upon His faithful seFvan
Abraham, after he had expressed
Willingness TO sacrifice his son Isaac
And this IL the blessing that God ha
promised to every faithful man anC
w0man-that 10 the increase Of then
seed there shall be no end. This will
constitute the great glory OF eternity
the man presiding over his family, ant
being lord over them. Thus II Ia tina
Jesus Is called Lord OF Lords. He Il
Lord OF Lords because HIS brethren
VIII exercise this power and authOrit,
over their posterity. And then what,
why The creative power Will DO giyeI