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in this Church in their day and generation….I have never felt to mourn in my spirit to fol-
low any Prophet, any Apostle, any Saint of the living God to the grave who has been true and
faithful to God, who has been true and faithful to His covenants, who has received the Gospel

of Jesus Christ and the ordinances thereof, and the holy Priesthood. Such men and women
have filled their mission here upon earth with honor, with labor, with love, until they have been
called home. They have died in the faith, and they will receive a crown of glory.
Those have been my feelings in the death of President [Brigham] Young, Brother [Heber C.]
Kimball, Brother [John] Taylor, the Twelve Apostles, and all men who have received the Gos-
pel of Christ and been true and faithful in that mission. There is an eternal reality—which the
whole world will find out—in life. There is an eternal reality in death. There is an eternal real-
ity in the resurrection, and in the future judgments, and in God’s dealing with all men in the

future according to the deeds done in the body; and when a man or a woman who has entered
into covenant with the Lord , who has received the Gospel and the ordinances thereof, and
been true and faithful in his or her day and generation, has been called home into the spirit
world, where is the man who comprehends these principles that can mourn for that brother or
sister?

Through the Atonement of Jesus Christ, all children who die before arriving at the years of
accountability will inherit celestial glory.
There is no infant or child that has died before arriving at the years of accountability, but
what is redeemed, and is therefore entirely beyond the torments of hell….I will defy any man
to find in any of the records of divine truth any ordinance instituted for the salvation of little
innocent children; it would be unnecessary on the face of it, and the only thing that can be
found is where Jesus took the little ones in his arms and blessed them, which is and would be

perfectly right to do according to the order of God. But the sprinkling of infants or the doc-
trine that infants go to hell under any circumstances, is a doctrine ordained of man and not
of God, and is therefore of no avail and entirely wrong and displeasing in the sight of God. So
much about the infants….They are redeemed by the blood of Jesus Christ.
Children are innocent before the Lord; as to their death and the cause thereof, that is in the

hands of God, and we should not complain of the Lord or his dispensations any more than Job
did….There is this consolation connected with the matter—they are innocent, they are not in
transgression. They have paid the law of death which God passed on Adam and all his posterity;
but when their spirits left their bodies and got into the spirit world their trouble and affliction
were over… They will come forth out of their graves in the morning of the resurrection, …
clothed with glory, immortality and eternal life, in eternal beauty and bloom, and they will be
given into the hands of their parents, and they will receive them in the family organization of
the celestial world, and their parents will have them for ever. They will live as long as their God