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Click here to listen to the funeral service for Zion-Grace (65 minutes) This is a large file and will take awhile
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Click on the the highlighted words to read each talk
Aaron's talk
was given by his father
Elizabeth's talk was given by her mother
Spencer's talk
was given in Church and at Zion-Grace's memorial service the day before she was born
Natalie's talk
was given in Church and at Zion-Grace's memorial service the day before she was born
Click here to see her funeral program
Click here for the lyrics of the hymns sung at her funeral and graveside service.
The following are quotes that we had displayed with Zion-Grace's photos.
“And I also beheld that all
children who die before they
arrive at the years of
accountability are saved in the
celestial kingdom of heaven”
D&C 137:10
Joseph Smith taught the doctrine that the infant child that was laid away in death
would come up in the resurrection as a child; and, pointing to the mother of a lifeless child, he said to her:
‘You will have the joy, the pleasure, and satisfaction of nurturing this child, after its resurrection, until it
reaches the full stature of its spirit.’ There is restitution, there is growth, there is development, after the
resurrection from death. I love this truth. It speaks volumes of happiness, of joy and gratitude to my soul. Thank
the Lord he has revealed these principles to us.” (Gospel Doctrine: Selections from the Sermons and Writings of
Joseph F. Smith pp. 455-56.)
...“The Lord truly knows best and we know that the innocents who have been recalled from earth, so soon after their
coming untainted by the sordid elements of this fallen world return to Him from whom they came, pure and holy,
redeemed from the foundation, by the sacrifice of one who said, ‘of such is the kingdom of heaven.’ My most earnest,
heartfelt prayer is, O! God help me to live and be worthy to join my innocent children in their home with thee!”
(Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph F. Smith 134.)
President Joseph Fielding Smith said:
“The Lord will grant unto these children the privilege
of all the sealing blessings which pertain to the
exaltation. We were all mature spirits before we
were born; and the bodies of little children will grow
after the resurrection to the full stature of the spirit,
and all the blessings will be theirs through their
obedience, the same as if they had lived to maturity
and received them on the earth.”
(Doctrines of Salvation, 2:54.)
...“The Lord takes many away even in infancy, that they may escape the envy of man, and the sorrows and evils of
this present world; they were too pure, too lovely, to live on earth: therefore, if rightly considered, instead
of mourning we have reason to rejoice as they are delivered from evil, and we shall soon have them again”
(Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p.196).
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