Our message also proclaims the persistence of the individual. There is something in you, my friends, according to this Mormon message to the world--there is something in all of us, that was not created: and that will not die. Something that is indestructible and uncreatable; a something that must live, because it can not be destroyed--the soul, the intelligence of man. That entity, that intelligence--_you_--will not be absorbed, and lose its identity. _You,_ friend, as an intelligence, and as a man shall live through all eternities. _You,_ friend, shall accumulate experiences and grow in grace and knowledge, and power, and might and dominion, until _you_ attain unto something that is worthy to be called divine--a son of God indeed! On the day that you, our visitors, members of the Grand Army of the Republic--on the day that you parade the streets of our city, our Zion, and we shall note you as you go by--perhaps, with feeble footsteps and bowed forms, not with the elastic step of youth as when you responded to your country's call when the great Republic was in danger!--We shall look upon you on that day and note, perhaps, in our thought, the contrast. We shall think of you, my friends, in sympathetic mood; and we shall contemplate the time when these aged forms of yours shall put on immortality--when even these bodies shall give forth in the resurrection the vital elements essential to the manifestation of your spirits, in all the eternities to come. Our message, friends, reaffirms the reality of the resurrection from the dead. We are commissioned to say that though a man die, yet shall he live, and that eternally. Christ is our warrant for the reality of the resurrection of all men. You, then shall live again--aye and in immortal youth, and possessed of all the high powers of a glorious manhood. You will meet again the comrades and the old commanders beyond the heights, to hold your camp-fires and recount the glories of your victories for the preservation of our great nation. We shall think of you in this spirit as you march by, and our sympathies will go out to you, but we shall regard you as the children of God--immortal men! not only in history, but in reality. And what may not be accomplished in eternity, friends, under these circumstances? What may we not all accomplish in such a state as our gospel gives hope to believe in, through Jesus Christ our Lord? Think of eternity in which to live, with God for your friend, with good men for your associates, and eternity in which to work out the problems of existence--eternity!--its shining plane stretching out illimitably before you--I say, what may you not hope to achieve? At least development, intellectual, spiritual; at least growth, moral growth--soul growth, until at last, citizenship in the kingdom of God, sonship to God, and brotherhood with all divine Intelligences.