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Excerpt from The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 79: June 28, 1917 Man, in his effort to discover the origin of life in plant and animal, has dissected, analyzed, and microscopically examined tissues; he has discovered that with the primary cell is the power to reproduce its kind. He has even named the component parts of the cell; but he is unable to say what exists in the microscopic nucleus that gives to the cell its life. As he contemplates the marvelous possibilities of the fertilized human ovum. He stands helpless at the portal of mortality. He feign would open the door. And peer beyond, but he cannot - to mortal the door is locked. As nature proclaims a Deity, so man, not only by his attainments scientifically, but by his discovered limitation of knowledge and power to do, proclaims himself the connecting link in the great eternal chain of life and progress, between 'a pre-mortal life in time immemorial, and the perpetuation of his existence as an intelligent entity in the countless ages of eternity. He declares his absolute dependence upon both past and future. The Scriptures are replete with evidence of a pre-existence, and that in that state we lived as Spirits. For example, with refer ence to Christ: In the beginning was the 70rd, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God (john 1: Here are the words of Christ, himself And now, 0 Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was (john 17: In the following passage of modern revelation. Christ bears record of His pre-existence and the presence of the hosts of heaven: Thus saith the Lord your God, even Jesus Christ, the Great I Am, Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the same which looked upon the wide expanse of eternity, and all the seraphic hosts of heaven before the world was made (doc. And Cov., Sec. 38: The Apostle Paul bears record that men existed as spirits prior to this earth-life: Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live (heb. 12: Moses and Aaron prayed. 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.