Again I call attention to the Flood and the people who were swept away in that all-consuming deluge. We cannot understand the Flood story aside from the love of God for his children. What did he do with them who were swept away? Were they lost?True, they were locked up for a time, so to speak, until Jesus entered the spirit world and organized his work among t them that they too might hear the gospel of Jesus Christ and, accepting it, progress to glory. I do not suppose there is a single one of the children of God who comes to this earth who will not have continued opportunity to reform, to change, save it be those who, knowing both God and Lucifer, choose in the light of that understanding to follow after Lucifer rather than Christ. For such you can do nothing, and they are lost. But it is to be hoped, as Joseph Smith expressed on many occasions, that at least ninety-eight percent of the human race will be raised to some degree of glory.