“…in my leisure moments I have meditated upon the subject, and asked the question, why it is that infants, innocent children, are taken away from us….The strongest reasons that present themselves to the mind are these:….The Lord takes many away even in infancy, that they may escape…the sorrows and evils of this present world; they were too pure, too lovely, to live on earth; therefore, if rightly considered…we have reason to rejoice as they are delivered from evil, and we shall soon have them again” At another time, the Prophet taught: “…when [a righteous] mother is deprived of the pleasure and joy of rearing her babe to manhood or womanhood in this life, through the hand of death, that privilege will be renewed to her hereafter, and she will enjoy it to a fuller fruition than it would be possible for her to do here” (Ibid., p. 454). Why? Because the Lord showed Joseph in vision: “…all children who die before they arrive at the years of accountability are saved in the celestial kingdom of heaven” (D&C 137: 10). What comfort this had to have brought to Joseph and his wife, Emma; for of the nine children born to them and the other two adopted, only five lived past childhood. https://youtube/watch?v=sw18WhLAny0
Posted on: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 05:38:29 +0000
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