The lesser, or starry world, next in its place,įor the leaven must leaven three measures of meal,Īnd every knee bow that is subject to grace. The spirits in prison, that light has brought up. (D&C 76:71)īehold, these are they that have died without law Īnd those of the region and shadow of death, ’Twas not as the church of the first-born of God,īut shone in its place, as the moon to the sun. To lay down his life for his friends and his foes,Īnd sanctify earth for a blessed repose. That he came to the world in the middle of time, Which the voice from the heavens bore record to me: (D&C 76:40)
The past, and the present, and what is to be Īnd this is the gospel-glad tidings to all, The myst’ry of Godliness truly is great. Wherefore, hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O ye earth Īnd rejoice, ye inhabitants, truly again įor the Lord he is God, and his life never ends,Īnd besides him there ne’er was a Saviour of men. I must fulfill the mission I had from the Lord. Where the virtue’s the value, and life the reward I will go, I will go, to the home of the Saints, In so doing, he rewrites “The Vision of Glory” in poetic verse. Having seen in vision a better world, the Prophet Joseph Smith composed a poetic reply to Phelps titled “The Answer.” In his poem, Joseph tells of the Plan of Salvation and of a three-tiered heaven-celestial, terrestrial, and telestial. Where the bliss and the knowledge, the light, and the love,ĭeath, the wages of sin, is not here: Go with me. Go with me, will you go to the mansions above, Where the system is perfect, and happiness free,Īnd the life is eternal with God: Come to me. Neither tyrants, or sland’rers, or nations ajar Go with me where there is no destruction or war What the Lord has prepar’d for the just: Go with me. Not a heart can conceive, nor a nat’ral eye see
Where the union is one, and the years never fail Go with me where the truth and the virtues prevail In the joys of a vast paradise? Go with me. Where the angels and spirits in harmony be To the next, better world, where the righteous reside Go with me, will you go to the saints that have died,. Phelps addressed his poem “Vade Mecum” (“Go With Me”) to the Prophet Joseph Smith, beckoning him to imagine “the next, better world”: On February 1, 1843, in the Times and Seasons, William W.
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