DEAR BRETHREN:—I have been greatly afflicted by the loss of my oldest son, Marion, who fell asleep in Jesus, Oct. 27th, in the 16th year of his age, greatly beloved by all who knew him. The funeral discourse was preached the 29th, by Eld. S. Hayward, from a passage of my selection, viz., Job. xiv, 2. "He cometh forth like a flower and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow and continueth not," but he preached that he was already in heaven; that he had only thrown off the clog of clay. This I do not believe. If people have already gone to heaven or hell that have died, where is the force of the saying of Christ, John v, 28, 29. "The hour is coming when all that are in the graves shall hear his voice and come forth," &c.
I believe that my son will come forth at the resurrection of the just. I believe that man is mortal, soul and body. We have the promise of being made immortal if we are faithful to God. I believe that Christ will come and raise the dead, and the kingdoms of this world will become the kingdom of our Lord. I believe the time is not far off when the meek shall inherit the earth. May thy kingdom come and thy will be done.