Those who sleep in Christ shall be raised from the dead at His coming with power and great glory, in the latter days. They shall reign with him on the earth a thousand years. During that blissful period the vicarious work for the dead shall proceed, until the work of redemption shall be complete, and all, at the end of that time of rest, the thousand years--"one clay with the Lord,"--the dead, both small and great, shall be raised. Then shall come the judgment. The {187} sons of God, the intelligences whom He created for His glory, shall be assigned to the mansions and kingdoms for which they have fitted themselves, by their course in this life and while in the spirit. And all shall acknowledge that God is just, and merciful, and full of loving kindness, and shall give glory to Him who sitteth upon the throne and to the Lamb forever and ever. There is an unbroken harmony between the teachings and announcements of Jesus and all the ancient prophets and apostles with those of Joseph Smith, who was raised up to usher in the great last dispensation. This beautiful blending should strike the investigator as remarkable. He should inquire whether a system so complete could possibly be the product of mere human ingenuity. It certainly is a most striking and unusual phenomenon. This unanimity of doctrine, principle and sentiment is all the more astounding in view of the otherwise heterogeneous, discrepant and conflicting religious maelstrom presented by so-called Christendom. This blending of the teachings of the ancients with those of the modern prophet is at least refreshingly new in this age of frenzied religious perplexity. Let us consider the statements of Joseph Smith in regard to the future conditions of the human family, side by side with the utterances of the Savior and the Apostle Paul. At Hiram, Portage County, Ohio, U. S. A., the modern prophet and Sidney Rigdon were permitted to behold a glorious vision, by which their minds were opened to a comprehension of this great subject. A portion of what they saw they were commanded to write and is published in section 76 of the latest edition of the Book of Doctrine and Covenants. Concerning those who place themselves beyond the pale of redemption, by committing the sin against the Holy Ghost, it is written: "Thus saith the Lord concerning all those who know my power and have been made partakers thereof, and suffered themselves, through the power of the devil, to be overcome, and to deny the truth and defy my power--They are they who are the sons of perdition, of whom I say that it had been better for them never to have been born, for they are vessels of wrath, doomed to suffer the wrath of God, with the devil and his angels in eternity; concerning whom I have said there is no forgiveness in this world nor in the world to come."