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Show CELESTIAL MAEEIAGE. 265 working at it every day, for there are many hundreds of individuals being born into the world eveiy day. Does the Lord create a new spirit every time a new tabernacle comes into the world ? That does not look reasonable, nor God-like. But how is it, you inquire ? Why the fact is, that being that animates this body, that gives life and energy, and power to move, to "act, and to think : that being that dwells within this tabernacle is much older than what the tabernacle is. That spirit. that now dwells within each man, and each woman, of this vast assembly of people, is more than a thousand years old, and I would venture to say, that it is more than five thousand years old. But how was it made ? when was it made ? and by whom was it made ? If our spirits existed thousands of years ago-if they began to exist-if there were a beginning to their organization, by what process was this organization carried on ? Through what medium, and by what system of laws ? Was it by a direct creation of the Almighty ? Or were we framed according to a certain system of laws, in the same manner as our tabernacles ? If we were to reason from analogy-if we admit analogical reasoning in the question, what would we say ? We should say, that our spirits were formed by generation, the same as the body or tabernacle of flesh and bones. But what says revelation upon the subject ? We will see whether revelation and analogy will agree. We read of a certain time when the corner^ stones of the earth were laid, and the foundations thereof were made sure-of a certain time when the Lord began to erect this beautiful and glorious habitation, the earth; then they had a time of joy. I do not know whether 12 |
