Store and marched to the grove in front of the Temple where the
Lodge was organized and an address delivered by the Grand Master
of the Masonic Lodge of Illinois. There were about three thousand
assembled on the occasion

On Sunday March the 20th a large assembly
gathered at an early hour to hear a discourse from Joseph
upon the subject of baptism, but as a young child was dead
and his corps broug[h]t in the assembly it called forth many
remarks upon death and the resurrection. I reported and recorded
in my Journal

A Brief Synopsis
of the
Sermon of Joseph the Prophet

The speaker read the 14 ch of Revelations and said:

"We have again the warning voice sounded in our midst
"which shows the uncertainty of human life. And in my
"leasure moments I have meditated upon the subject and
asked the question, Why is it that inocent children are taken
away from us especially those who seem to be the most
intelligent beings?"

The Answer:

"This world is a very wicked world and it is
a proverb that it grows weaker and wiser, but if this is the
case it is also true that the world grows more wicked and
corrupt

"In the early ages of the world a righteous
man—a man of God and intelligence had a better chance
to do good, to be received and beleived than at the present
day. In these days such a man is much opposed
and persecuted by most of the inhabitants of the earth
and he has much sorrow to pass through. Hence the
Lord takes many away even in infancy that they may escape
the envy of man and the sorrows and evils of the present
world. ^and they were too true and too lovely to live on earth^ Therefore I rightly considered instead of mourning
we have reason to rejoice as they are delivered from the
evil and we shall soon have them again.

Store and marched to the grove in front of the Temple where the [FIGURE] Lodge was organized and an address delivered by the Grand Master of the Masonic Lodge of Illinois. There were about three thousand assembled on the occasion [FIGURE]

On Sunday March the 20th a large assembly gathered at an early hour to hear a discourse from Joseph upon the subject of baptism, but as a young child wsa dead and his corps brougt in the assembly it called forth many remarks upon death and the resurrection. I reported and recorded in my Journal

A Brief Synopsis of the Sermon of Joseph the Prophet

The speaker read the 14 ch of Revelations and said:

"We have again the warning voice Sounded in our midst "which shows the uncertainty of human life. And in my "leasure moments I have meditated upon the subject and asked the question, Why is it that inocent children are taken away from us especially those who seem to be the most intelligent beings?"

The Answer: [FIGURE]

"This world is a very wicked world and it is a proverb that it grows weaker and wiser, but if this is the case it is also true that the world grows more wicked and corrupt

"In the early ages of the world a righteous man—a man of God and intelligence had a better chance to do good, to be received and beleived than at the present day. In these days such a man is much opposed and persecuted by most of the inhabitants of the earth and he has much sorrow to pass through. Hence the Lord takes many away even in infancy that they may escape the envy of man and the sorrows and evils of the present and they were too true and too lovely to live on earth world. Therefore I rightly considered instead of mourning we have reason to rejoice as they are delivered from the evil and we shall soon have them again.