Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-29
Father. Mother. may meet you
In your royal courts on high?"

b =
What poetic pleading, sweet song.
pure prayer. l am here reminded of
the words of Americas greatest de-
scriptive poet:
$50 live. that. when thy summons
comes to Join
The innumerable caravan. which
moves
To that mysterious realm. where each
shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of
death.
Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at
night.
Scourged to his dungeon, but, sus-
tanned and soothed
BY an unfaltering trust, approach thy
grave
Like one who wraps the drapery of his
couch
About him. and lies down to pleasant
Dreams"
Sublime are the sentiments OF Will
liam Cullent Bryant but glorious Is the
poetic flight of Eliza Il. Snow. To rest
to sleep-to dreanl--how comforting;
but to go home to report. to live. to
love. how Inspiring! Is this home going
to be home staying? No, not yet.
The poem does not so Indicate, 1t in
fers another going FORTH mission still.
In the de-embodied state with earth Lfe
experiences, the state between ctath
and the resurrection, :tlll the work goes
on. President Brigham Young has re-
vealed to us that If we could look into
the spirit world, we would see and hear
missionaries there preaching the gospel
seeking to educate the spirits: and we
would see opposition, but we would see
the triumph of the priesthood. By the
way-in speaking OF this state-there
may be some who are skeptical about
1t. wish to call your attention to one
passage of Scripture. IL the Prophet
Brighamsg words need any reinforce
nient in your minds. We have it from
the ancient apostle Peter that Jesus
went and preached to the spirits in
prison. who were sometimes disobedient
In the days of Noah.
CONDITIONS OF MERIT.
Now for the grand finish, which no
doubt Is but the beginning OF something
more glorious
Then, at length, when I've completed
All you sent me forth to do,
With your mutual appreciation,
Let me come and dwell with YOU"
Yes. after having fully filed the mis-
son-"All you sent me forth to do.
let me come and dwell with you" Is
there anything wrong in this request?
1t is so childlike. plaintive, and yet
so majestically judicial. While 1t
breathes expectation, 1t imposes the
highest conditions of merit The Lord
Jesus taught the doctrine of dwelling
with God, when he so beautifully and
tenderly said, I'm my fathers house
there are many mansions, go to pre-.
pare n place for you that where am,
We may be also" where he was to be
Being risen from the dead.
sr,t.. Nf1,n IN O,
todian OF the plates from which the
Book of Mormon was translated, and
whose mission is typitied by the statue
on our temple, is n resurrccted being,
notwithstanding he passed through
this mortal state nearly four centuries
after the resurrection of our Lord
Jesus. And these two facts lead to
the conclusion that the resurrection Is
continuous. and that there are general
resurrcctions and special resurrections.
And why not? Who shall say that
the Lord cannot--or that lie does not.
bring spirits or intelligencies into the
immortal or resurected state whenever
the needs OF society or the merits of
the individual call for the performance
OF that divine ordinance, such as was
performed in the tomb ut Calvary? We
have completed one cycle Of life 1t Is
not one eternal! round IN the sense of
completing IL dead level circle, q fly
creeping around ring. 1t Is one of
the eternal rounds of endless progress
like one of the rounds OF an ascend
ing acroplanc, II is an eternal round like
the evolution of an idea which mt every
turn takes in more truth. 1t Is the
career OF which Longfellow wrote. say
ing,
mot enjoyment and not sorrow is our
destined end or way.
But to act that each tomorrow finds
us further than today"
To me the poet meant
Not enjoyment without sorrow Is
our destined end or way.