Sunday 20th [19th] Oct Elder spoke upon the death
of Sister . He was thankful we as a people were
settelled in these vallies of the Mountains whare it was
healthy we have here to fore suffered much by sickness in
other places but we cannot get entirely away from
sickness & death let us go whare we will in this life
for all men must taste of death even those who
were translated had to have a change to Immortality
their may be some pain attending that even if it
was ownly for an instant. Their must be some space
between death & the resurrection sin is the cause of this
evil even death without sin men would have been
Immortal. If I should hear of a God who had made
man to have pain & sorrow without any agency or sin
I could not have any confidence in him, & the Heavens could
not it may be said it is necessary to have sorrow & misery
in order to Enjoy good the Lord when He made the world
knew how to fix things so that man should bring upon
himself death evil & sorrow if he had ag[ency] He planted
the tree of knowledge of good Evil in the midst of the
garden little children did not commit sin but their
parents did it was not our own sins that brought death
but the sin of our first parents death being introduced
into the world we all partake of it if we had not the great
plan of salvation revealed we should be without law
if it was not for revelation we should not know that
we had an Immortal spirit within us we should take
