Now we will drop the suppositions assumed. These three great utterances constitute the message of "Mormonism" to the world upon this great theme. The first comes from a fragment of the teachings of the prophet Moses, found not in musty tomb or ruined temple, but revealed to the Prophet Joseph Smith before this Church of ours was six months old. The second comes from a revelation from God to him, in the year 1833. The third contribution comes from our Book of Mormon, and is the contribution of sleeping nations once inhabiting the American continents, a message through their prophet leader to the modern world, and a contribution to the modern world for its enlightenment. How splendid all that is!

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Reference was made by President Ivins on Sunday to that most marvelous of all revelations on the pre-existence of the spirit of the Christ given to Moriancumer, the brother of Jared. So complete was that vision, so certain it was, that the Prophets as he beheld the finger of the Lord stretched forth, exclaimed : "I knew not that the Lord had flesh and blood." This view was corrected by the Lord, who said: "This is the body of my spirit, and as I appear unto you in the spirit, so will I appear unto my people in the flesh." In other words, it was the spirit form of the Christ which Moriancumer beheld. It is the spirit that gives form to the whole man. The spirit out of the elements in this earth-life clothes itself with this beautiful garment, the human body, which in the providences of God shall be made immortal. This through the processes, first of birth into mortality — earth life ; and after that, birth into immortality through the resurrection. Through these processes shall come forth those personages that shall be eternal — a union of spirit and element that shall be indissoluble. The mortal state is but a prelude to that immortal life, and to that "eternal life" which shall include with it an eternal union with God, a union that shall lead to the eternal progress and development of the divine intelligences that inhabit these bodies.