DISCOURSE BY ELDER WILFORD WOODRUFF, DELIVERED JUNE 27, 1875, IN THE SECOND WARD SCHOOL-HOUSE, SALT LAKE CITY, AT THE FUNERAL SERVICES OF JOHN HOUSEMAN, AGED SIX YEARS, AND WILLIE FRANKLIN, AGED FOUR YEARS, SONS OF WILLIAM AND ANN WHEELER, BURNED TO DEATH AT WANSHIP, SUMMIT COUNTY, U. T., JUNE 24, 1875. (Reported by David W. Evans.) LITTLE CHILDREN ARE INNOCENT, AND ALL WILL BE SAVED—GOD, A PERSONAGE OF TABERNACLE—THE LIFE OF THE SAVIOR, A ...

friends who mourn with them, are dependent upon the same source for comfort in their serious bereavement; and in fact we are all dependent upon the blessing and Spirit of the Lord in all the labors of life, and I hope that, in our services this morning, a large measure of that Spirit will be impar- ted unto us. I feel disposed to read the first chapter of Job as a preliminary to any remarks I may make. -[The speaker read the first chapter ...

these valleys of the mountains, and they have become parents. I have seen some, I will not say a great many, but I have seen some young men, I say nothing about maidens, who have met with untimely deaths and who have gone to the grave dis- graced, and a dishonor to themselves and to their parents. Circumstances of this kind are far more painful to any parent in the world than it is for their children to meet with sudden death by accident or any other way. I do not make these remarks to ...

Lord, and it has been so from the creation of the world all the way down. Children are taken away in their infancy, and they go to the spirit world. They come here and fulfill the object of their coming, that is, they tabernacle in the flesh. They come to receive a probation and an inheritance on the earth; they obtain a body or tabernacle, and that taber- nacle will be preserved for them, and in the morning of the resurrection the spirits and bodies will be reunited, and as here we find children of ...

how to comprehend the sweet? If we never partake of pain how can we prize ease? And if we never pass through affliction, how can we comprehend glory, exaltation and eternal blessings?" The Lord has said concerning Jesus, that he descended below all things that he might rise above all things, and comprehend all things. No man descended lower than the Savior of the world. Born in a stable, cradled in a manger, he tra- veled from there to the cross through suffering, mingled with blood, to a throne of grace; and in all his life there was ...

possessions were taken from him in an hour, but yet he had sense or knowledge enough to understand and say that when he came into the world he possessed neither children, houses, lands, horses, oxen, camels nor asses, but that all his wealth had been given to him by the Lord, and that the Lord had taken them away and blessed be his holy name. [Job 1:21] I will say to our mourning friends, your children are taken away and you can not help it, we cannot any ...

made in the image of God, take no interest in their condition after death? They know they are going to die, and, if they have any sense or reflection, they know they will live after the death of their mortal bodies; still men will sell their eternal inter- est for money, for a few hundred or a few thousand dollars they will sell all the interest they have in the eternal world; in fact, they take no interest in their eternal welfare. Their cry is—"Give me gold, silver and honors the few years I spend here, and eternal ...

warfare, labor and faithfulness before the Lord in order for us to keep in fellowship with the Holy Spirit, and to live in such a manner that we may obtain these blessings. Jesus says— "Strait is the gate and narrow the way that leads to eternal lives, and few there are who find it, while broad is the way that leads to death, and many there be who go in thereat." [Matthew 7:13-14] The road to death is broad enough to catch the whole world, and they do not like to walk in ...

of men, for the Lord has put into our hands the power to build up his Zion upon the earth, never more to be thrown down, and this is what no other generation has ever been called to do. But although this is the mis- sion of the Latter-day Saints, we have a continual warfare to wage—a warfare with the powers of darkness, and a warfare with ourselves. The ancients had a similar experience to pass through—they had their day of trials, troubles and tribulations. Enoch labored three hundred and sixty-five years in building up ...

We live in a very important age and generation; we live in the day and time when God has set his hand to fulfill a measure of prophecy and revelation to man, in the great dis- pensation of all dispensations. As an individual I do not believe that many more years will roll over the heads of the inhabitants of the earth before the resurrection will be upon them, and then these children, which we are called to bury to-day, will come forth from their graves, clothed with glory, immortality and eternal life. You ...

way that we may be ready for what- ever dispensation the Lord may have in store for us, and so that we can acknowledge his hand as Job did, and not find any fault with him be- cause of his providences toward us. If we cannot comprehend them now, we shall be able to do so in a little while. The Lord may have purposes in view in his dealings with us that we do not understand; I presume he has. In fact, the whole of the deal- ings of God to man are ...

wealth, I do not want them if they will damn me. I would like to have enough to clothe, shoe and feed my wives and children, and to make them comfortable, if I can get it honestly before the Lord; but I would rather myself and them all be in poverty than to have wealth and be destroyed. Riches are dangerous unless we can use them so as not to destroy us; if we cannot use them to the glory of God and for the building up of his Kingdom, we are better without them. I ...