Brother Benson never performed a mission or any other duty but what he will rejoice over forever, and so it will be with us all. The reward of the faithful will amply repay them for all the labors they ever performed or for the privations they have endured. No la- bor we have ever done that has helped to promote the happiness and well-being of our fellowmen will go unrewarded.

Well, brethren and sisters, you and I have lived to see the dawn of the great day thus referred to by the prophets, in which the God of heaven has set His hand for the last time to establish His kingdom upon the earth; a kingdom not to be overthrown, but to remain until sin, Satan and the power of the devil are banished from the face thereof, and until, as the prophets have said, the kingdoms of this world shall be- come the kingdoms of our God and His Christ.

And it will be so with others. And this work of administering the ordinances of the house of God to the dead, I may say, will require the whole of the millennium, with Jesus at the head of the resurrected dead to attend to it. The ordin- ances of salvation will have to be attended to for the dead who have not heard the gos- pel, from the days of Adam down before Christ can present this world to the Father and say "It is finished."

Let us go to and attend to our ordinances, then when we go to the spirit world and meet with father, mother brother or sister they cannot rise up and accuse us of negligence. I have attended to the ordinances for a great many of my friends, and I want you to do the same, so that when we get to the other side of the vail we may look back and be satisfied. This power has been placed in the hands of the Latter-day Saints, then let us go forth and use it for the salva- tion of the living and the dead. With re- gard to the unbelief of the world, it will not make the truth of God without effect. These ordinances have been revealed to us; we understand them, and unless we attend to them we shall fall under condemnation.