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 vari- ous ages in a family, from the infant at the mother's breast to manhood, so will it be in the family organization in the celestial world. Our children will be restored to us, as they are laid down if we, their parents, keep the faith and prove ourselves worthy to obtain eternal life; and if we do not so prove ourselves our children will still be preserved, and will inherit celestial glory. This is my view in regard to all infants who die, whether they are born to Jew or Gentile, righteous or wicked. They come from our eternal Father and their eternal Mother unto whom they were born in the eternal world, and they will be restored to their eternal pa- rentage; and all parents who have received children here according to the order of God and the holy priest- hood, no matter in what age they may have lived, will claim those chil- dren in the morning of the resurrec- tion, and they will be given unto them and they will grace their family orga- nizations in the celestial world.

it is sufficient for me to know that our children are saved, and that if we ourselves keep the faith and do our duty before the Lord, if we keep the celestial law, we shall be preserved by that law, and our child- ren will be given unto us there, as they have been given here in this world of sorrow, affliction, pain and distress.

In the dispensations and providences of God to man it seems that we are born to suffer pain, affliction, sor- rows and trials; this is what God has decreed that the human family shall pass through; and if we make a right use of this probation, the experience it brings will eventually prove a great blessing to us, and when we receive immortality and eternal life, exaltation, kingdoms, thrones, principalities and powers with all the blessings of the fulness of the Gospel of Christ, we shall understand and comprehend why we were called to pass through a continual warfare during the few years we spent in the flesh.