Prophets
of Old Watch over the Kingdom President Joseph F. Smith
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the Lord expands our vision from this point of view and this side of
the veil, so that we feel and seem to realize that we can look beyond
the thin veil which separates us from that other sphere. So I feel quite confident that the eyes of Joseph the Prophet, and of the martyrs of this dispensation, and of Brigham and John and Wilford, and those faithful men who were associated with them in thier ministry upon the earth, are carefully gaurding the interests of the Kingdom of God in which they labored and for which they strove during their mortal lives. I believe they are as deeply interested in our welfare today, if not with greater capacity, with far more interest, behind the veil, than they were in the flesh. I believe they know more; I believe their minds have expanded beyond their comprehension in mortal life, and their interests are enlarged in the work of the Lord to which they gave their lives and their best service ... I have a feeling in my heart that I stand in the presence not only of the Father and of the Son, but in the presence of those whom God commissioned, raised up, and inspired, to lay the foundations of the work in which we are engaged. (President Joseph F. Smith, Messages of the First Presidency 5: 5-6) |
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