Download or read book The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 63 written by Francis M. Lyman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 63: July 18, 1901 We hold that mankind are literally the spiritual children of God; that even as the Christ had an existence with the Father before coming to earth to take upon Himself a tabernacle of flesh, to live and to die as a man in accordance with the pre-ordained plan of redemption, so, too, every child of earth had an existence in the spirit state before entering upon this mortal probation. We hold the doctrine to be reasonable, scriptural and true, that mortal birth is no more the beginning of the soul's existence than is death its end. The time-span of mortal life is but one stage in the soul's career, separat ing the eternity that has preceded from the eternity that is to follow. And this mortal existence is one of the Father's great gifts to His spiritual children, affording them the opportunity of an untrammeled exercise of their free agency, the privilege of meeting temptation and of resisting it if they will, the chance to win exaltation and eternal life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.