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Life Death Spirit World the ResurrecOn-A scpral Doctrine
Not Perfect Natural Principles in Spiritual Things Christ
Origin the sOuThe Judgement for the New Year
Testimony Of the Gospel


telllgence and grows In understanding
while his body Is getting weaker and
Trailer. SO we can come 10 the conclu-
sion, apart from revelation, that there
Is a spirit In man." and, as the old
Prophet said, the inspiration OF the
Almighty glveth them understanding.
In the 18th chapter OF Ecoleslastes,
ith verse. we read concerning the dis
solution that comes In what we eau
death. "Then shall the dust return 10
the earth as II was and the spirit shall
return unto God who gave H." There
is a great deal In that little verse for us
TO think about. 1t is set forth more
plainly In this book that we have
heard from this afternoon. THIS
intelligent being that dwells In the
body, that obtains intelligence
by experience here, that stores up
the impressions that are made upon
It through the medium Of the body, is
separate and distinct IN one sense, from
the body. IL came from God and when
the body decays and goes back to the
elements out Of which II came, the
spirit retains its identity and goes back
to God who gave it.
SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF GOD.
We have learned from the revelations
that God has given TO US In these last
days-and We find corroboration OF
them in the Bible and In the Book OF
Mormon-that the spiritual part Of man,
the intelligent part OF each human be-
ing, Is a son or a daughter Of the Great
Eternal Father. and that He made this
globe on which We dwell for the very
purpose that we should come here and
obtain experience that We could not
gain otherwise; that we were with Him
before the world was made that Jesus
Christ, who died on Calvary, who Is the
Reedemer OF the world, was the first
begotten in spirit and the only begotten
according TO the flesh, that He was "the
beginning OF the creation Of God"-as
said in the New Testament, "the first
born OF every creature" and that we
are verify and truly His brothers and
sisters, as He himself proclaimed when
He was on the earth. He called His
disciples His brethren, and He meant
what He said. He told them when they
prayed. not 10 90 In the roundabout
way that the heather did In their ad-
dresses TO Deity, loading him with all
kinds Of adultations and expletives;
but, said He, After this manner there
fore pray ye: Our Father which art
In heaven" When He was raised from
the dead and appeared to Mary in the
garden, He told her TO go TO His breth-
rem, and say unto them, Il ascend unto
My Father and your Father; and to Ny
God, and your God"
EVERY SPIRIT WILL GO TO ITS
OWN PLACE.
This is what Christ and His Apostles
tried TO make clear TO the people while
they dwelt In the fesh-that we are
the sons and daughters OF the Great
God; that the spiritual part Of our ma
ture did not come out OF this earth.
but came from above; that when We die
We go back 70 the God who gave US
life, and then We are placed where we
belong. IL we have fitted ourselves to
dwell with the good, the upright and
the pure in heart, we shall mingle With
them: II not, We will go to our own
place and mingle with the wicked Is
not that just? Is Il not natural and
reasonable? Does not light cleave to
light, truth to truth. and intelligence TO
intelligence? And do not people who
are Of a just and pure nature delight
70 mingle together? Are there not
earthly substances which have q natur-
al affinity for each other? SO II Is In
spiritual things, When We depart from
this life We Will go where We belong.
II we are corrupt and wicked in our
desires and intentions, We will mlngle
with our kind; but II we have devoted
ourselves to truth, to light and TO In
telligence, and our tendencies have been
upward, and we have reached out after
that which is pure and godlike, We viii
dwell with that class.
PLACE OF DEPARTED SPIRITS.
The general idea has been that we
either 90 up 10 heaven or down to hell.
and that our fate is fixed at death. II
is the common idea In Christendom that
we go to dwell with God or We go
down 10 hell, where We weller In fire
and birthstone forever and over. But
the New Testament does not teach that.
II teaches that when We depart from
this body We go either into place
called paradise, or else into hades.
When Jesus died we read that He
went and preached TO the spirits In
prison" BEFORE He died, and when he
was upon the cross. He said to one
OF the thieves who were crucihed with
Him, To-day thou shalt be with me in
paradise" Now, when Jesus died, He
did not 20 up to heaven. lie went to
preach to the spirits In prison, so Pc
ter says, who were dlsobedlent in the
days OF Noah, while the ark was pre-
~ Va col Aaf Ia
"deliverance TO the captlves;" that He
preached the Gospel to those who were
in the spirit. that they might be
judged according TO men In the
flesh, but live according 10 God In the
spirit."u Pet. iii, 1920; w g. He related
In the parable OF the rich man and Laz-
arus how one OF them went into "Abra-
hams BOSOM or a place OF rest, while
the other went into place Of torment.
One was consigned to sphere of happi-
ness, the other 10 a sphere OF misery,
Just as we have heard read today from
the Book OF Mormon. The terms used
by Jesus Christ were figuratlve. When
Jesus took IN his body (the same body
that was laid In the tomb He met Mary
In the garden, and said, Touch me not:
for am not yet assembled 20 my Father:
but go TO my brethren, and say unto
them. I ascend unto my Father, and
your Father; and 10 my God, and your
Cod John Xxx, IL,
JESUS THE TYPE OF THE RES.
DIRECTION.
AS have said, Jesus Christ was our
Elder Brother. He came here at the
time appointed. And He came, as the
Bible says, TO do the will OF the Father.
10. come lin the volume OF the book
Il IL written of mel TO do thy will, o
God" (Heb. X, ID He said He came
here not TO do His own will. but the will
OF Him that sent Him. And He was the
pattern for US all TO follow. In the life,
death and resurrection OF the Lord
Jesus Christ. our Elder Brother, we can
behold type Of the llfe death and
resurrection Of US all. TO some degree.
He lived In the body He died, and
went out Of the body; lie went into the
spirit world; He not only mingled with
the righteous In paradise, but He went
and preached TO the wicked, or those
who had been wicked nearly two thou
sand years before. He preached the ac-
ceptable year Of the Lord He preached |
the same Gospel there that He preached |
IN the flesh, that they might be recon
clled unto God In the spirit and BE- |
judged according 10 men In the flesh. |
How are men TO be judged In the flesh? |
They are to be judged by their deeds