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Show 0 tion of · op posi tes, tii'~~ough which we· must pass · to gain ·e xperience and information to fit us for an eternal progression.24 When I look at the economy of heaven my heart leaps for joy, and if I had the tongue of an angel, or the tongues of the whole human family combined, I would praise God in the highest for His great wisdom and condescension in suffering the children, of men to fall into the very sin into whi~h they have fallen, ·for He did it that they, like Jesus, mig~t descend below all things and then .press for. ris~ above all. ward anq of I have ·heard that the . celebrated · ·Mr. Beecher, Brooklyn, once· said that th~ greatest misfortune that could ever happen to man was to '- be born, but I say that the greatest good fortune th~t ever happened or can happen to this earth, · for then life human beings is to be botn aµ4 salvation are b~fore them; · then they have the privi, lege of overcoming d·e ath- and of walking sin and iniquity unde·r . thefr feet, .. of· in'corj:>'6 rating into their_ daily lives every· principle of life and salvation and of dwelling Those who are enlightened by eternally with the Gods. 31 the spirit of truth, have no difficulty in seeing the propriety and the benefit to us of this state of things .... If man could have been made perfect, in his double capacity of body and spirit, without passing through the ordeals of mortality, there would have been no necessity of our Could the coming into this state of trial and suffering. Lord have glorified his children in spirit, without a body like his own, he no doubt would have done so. on We read that there is nothing impossible with God. In a broad sense there is not; but in another sense there are He will not things~ never attempted and never will. exalt a spirit to ·thrones, to inunortality, and eternal lives,unless that spirit is first clothed in mortal flesh, and with it, passes through a mortal probation, and overcomes the world, the flesh, and the devil through the atonement made by Jesus Christ and the power of the Gospel.24 The transgression of our first parents was absolutely necessary. Then I ask, Is there a debt contracted between the Our First parents Father and his children? There · is. transgressed the law that was given them in the garden; This created the debt. What is their eyes were opened. It is a divine debt. What will the nature of this debt? |
