SALVATION UNIVERSAL By JOSEPH FIELDING SMITH PUBLISHED BY THE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF UTAH 1920 _THE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF UTAH._ Organized November 13, 1894. Anthon H. Lund, President; Charles W. Penrose, Vice President; Joseph Fielding Smith, Secy. and Treas.; Joseph Christenson, Librarian; Lillian Cameron and Nephi Anderson, Assistant Librarians. DIRECTORS: Anthon H. Lund, Charles W. Penrose, Joseph Christenson, Joseph Fielding Smith, Anthony W. Ivins, Hyrum G. Smith. Life Membership, $10, with two years in which to pay. Annual membership, $2 the first year, $1 yearly thereafter. _The Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine._ Published by the Genealogical Society of Utah. QUARTERLY, $1.50 PER ANNUM Anthon H. Lund, Editor; Nephi Anderson, Associate Editor Subscription price to life and paid-up annual members of the Genealogical Society, $1.00 a year. Address all communications to GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF UTAH 47 East South Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. Salvation Universal. BY ELDER JOSEPH FIELDING SMITH The greatest of all the gifts of God unto his children, is the gift of salvation.[A] [Footnote A: Doc. & Cov. 6:13.] The greatest of all his works, to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man, which constitutes his glory.[B] [Footnote B: Book of Moses 1:39.] For this grand and glorious purpose, worlds are created by him and peopled with his children. He gives to them his commandments, granting the power to choose for themselves whether or not they will obey. Those who obey him in all things he has promised great blessings, they shall be added upon in his celestial kingdom for ever and ever, and shall be crowned with the fullness of his glory. But to those who reject laws, and become a law unto themselves in unrighteousness, shall punishment be meted out according to their evil deeds. The plan of salvation, or code of laws, which is known as the gospel of Jesus Christ, was adopted in the heavens, before the foundation of the world was laid. It was appointed there that Adam our father should come to this earth and stand at the head of the whole human family. It was a part of this great plan, that he should partake of the forbidden fruit and fall, thus bringing suffering and death into the world, even for the ultimate good of his children. By many he has been severely criticized because of his fall, but Latter-day Saints, through modern revelation, have learned that such was necessary in order that man should have his agency and, through the various vicissitudes he has to pass, receive a knowledge of both good and evil, without which it would be impossible for him to gain the exaltation prepared for him.