There were beasts in the forests of every kind, both the cow and the ox, and the ass and the horse, and the goat and the wild goat, and all manner of wild animals, which were for the use of men. 1 Nephi 18:25
I stated to you in my letter before I left my place, that I would write to you from time to time and give you information in relation to many subjects, I now resume the subject of the baptism for the dead. 128:1
Jesus Christ, wherein it is granted that whatsoever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. 128:8
The baptismal font was instituted as a similitude of the grave. 128:13
For their salvation is necessary and essential to our salvation, as Paul says concerning the fathers—that they without us cannot be made perfect—neither can we without our dead be made perfect. 128:15
I will give you another quotation of Paul, 1 Corinthians 15:29: Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? Why are they then baptized for the dead?. 128:16
I might have rendered a plainer translation to this, but it is sufficiently plain to suit my purpose as it stands. 128:18
Glad tidings for the dead; a voice of gladness for the living and the dead; glad tidings of great joy. 128:19
And again, what do we hear? Glad tidings from Cumorah! Moroni, an angel from heaven, declaring the fulfilment of the prophets—the book to be revealed. 128:20
And again, the voice of God in the chamber of old Father Whitmer, in Fayette, Seneca county, and at sundry times ... And the voice of Michael, the archangel; the voice of Gabriel, and of Raphael, and of divers angels,. 128:21
Go forward and not backward ... on to the victory! ... Let the earth break forth into singing. 128:22
Let the mountains shout for joy, and all ye valleys cry aloud; and all ye seas and dry lands ... And ye rivers, and brooks, and rills, flow down with gladness. 128:23
The great day of the Lord is at hand ... like fuller’s soap. 128:24
Let us present in his holy temple, when it is finished, a book containing the records of our dead. 128:24
I have many things to say to you on the subject; but shall now close for the present, and continue the subject another time. 128:25
