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BERG MORTUARY 61
friends to wear any badge of mourning for me at my funeral or afterwards, for if I am true and
faithful unto death there will be no necessity for anyone to mourn for me.”

TEACHINGS OF WILFORD WOODRUFF AT DEATH EACH

PERSON’S SPIRIT ENTERS THE SPIRIT WORLD, WHERE THE
RIGHTEOUS REJOICE TOGETHER AND CONTINUE IN THE LORD’S

WORK.

A great many [people] believe when a man dies that is the end of him, that there is no here-
after. Can any sensible man believe that the God of heaven has created two or three hundred
thousand million spirits, and given them tabernacles [physical bodies], merely to come and

live upon the earth and then to pass away into oblivion or to be annihilated? It seems to me
that no reflecting man can entertain such belief. It is contrary to common sense and to serious
reflection.
When mourning the loss of our departed friends, l cannot help but think that in every death
there is a birth; the spirit leaves the body dead to us, and passes to the other side of the veil alive

to that great and noble company that are also working for the accomplishment of the purposes
of God, in the redemption and salvation of a fallen world.
There is rejoicing when the spirit of a Saint of the Living God enters into the spirit world and
meets with the Saints who have gone before.

Some labor this side of the veil, others on the other side of the veil. If we tarry here we expect
to labor in the cause of salvation, and if we go hence we expect to continue our work until the
coming of the Son of Man.

IN TIMES OF TRIATHROUGH THE ATONEMENT OF JESUS CHRIST,
ALL PERSONS WILL BE RESURRECTED, THEIR SPIRITS REUNITING

WITH THEIR IMMORTAL BODIES.

We acknowledge that through Adam all have died, that death through the fall must pass upon
the whole human family, also upon the beasts of the field, the fishes of the sea and the fowls of
the air and all the works
of God, as far as this earth is concerned. It is a law that is unchangeable and irrevocable…The
Savior himself tasted of death; He died to redeem the world; His body was laid in the tomb,
but it did not see corruption; and after three days it arose from the grave and put on immortali-
ty. He was the first fruit of the resurrection.