Arizona republican., 1898-10-03
THE SPIRIT OF MAN.

Since the period you claim that dl- vine authority ceased 1 asked, and i 1 that without il the proper results could |
 h not be obtained, @ great many good and | consistent people have lived and 1
 great many are living today who are as sincere in their.balief and as GeSirouS
 to follow the will of God as you or your people are. If your theory is correct do you believe these people are lOsl, and that God is so unjust as not to re-
 ward them simply because their re1g- ious affairs have not been conducted by persons who claimed to possess all
 these powers which you claim are es-
 sential?''
 ''The solution Of this, to many, pug zling problem is simple in the light CT
 Fhe true gospel Of Christ restored in the
 latter days. The mercy ct God encur-
 eth forever It is net confined to the narrow boundaries Of this little earth,
 nor tied up within the limits of time The spirits Of men and women are hls sons and daughters, whether in the
 body or out Of the body. His tender mercie5 are oyer all his works No one can be justly CT mercifully judged by : the gospel without hearing that gospel,
 and having the opportunity to receive CT reject it. Why, then, should not the gospel of Jesus Christ be made known to those who never heard it in the flesh, after they have left the body and dwell : in another sphere? Do not all the sects of Christendom, alnost. without e1cep- ton, believe that the spirit Of man IS l immortal, and is therefore living ana
 sentient when the body is dead? And if that is true, are net the spirits CT
 men and women able to receive in5-ruc- tion and information when cut CT the l body? Is 1t not the spirit O. man that l receives and stores up intelligence cor
 veyed through the bodily senses! Why : should inc change called death, V Wl1cA , is the separation Of the body ana the : spirit, ctt off all means of dlvIHe com
 munication to the living, immortal. in- : telligent being that has simply 'shuf-
 fed eff the mortal coil? There Is ID
 soad reason why the spirit thus ad-
 rancad one stage ii it's experience F should rci3 be capable of still furthe' a progress and of receiving light, knoWl- If edge, wisdom and religious teaching , especially if information essential to 5 it's eternal welfare was withheld wlliie e it dwelt in the body. Revelation as ,- well as reason bears testimony that /, the word of God can be preached to >hf s deDarted as well in the sphere to whlcf 70 they have Sone, as On any part of thi: Q earthly globe .e You say that cCm piete immersion i: 2 essential. The spiritual matters yol = have just referred 10 can be attended la to in the next sphere If person ha' a gene to this next world without being n properly baptized how is he to ee re I, deemed?' l asked.
 ii In the revelation e the gospel 0 ,1- Jesus Christ anew iii the present ag ,e. baraisna for the dead was made know Is to the Prophet Joseph Smith as nee ie cssary part of the doctrine cf Christ m It's purpose, ehe form Of the ordinance r. who should administer t, who shout is receive t. how it would affect both th ,is living and the dead, and everything ' lv render it acceptable to God and eff 7G cacious to the departed, was mad .s- known to the prophet Of tlle nineteent fo century. Tn a case like you cite La ,e- ter-Day Saint who has accepted Gn te revelation can enter a Mormon temp ,s- ard attend tc this earthly duty by b' ,7s ing baDtized in the name Of the d' ey parted.
 as As understand it, then, this s2hel n. you refer to is receptacle for all Y ha departed. regardless cf religious creed led What are the conditions there:
 Our religion teaches that Ne IT ii. forever in the same likeness. Iher nl- fore We will recognize one another