President Smith informed me that I had been given permission to return and complete the mission on the earth which the Lord had appointed to me to fulfill, and then with his hand upon my shoulder, uttered these memorable and significant words.  "Brother Heber you have a great work to do.  Go forward with a prayerful heart and thou shall be blessed in thy ministry.  From this time on never doubt that God lives, that Jesus Christ is the Son, the Saviour of the world, that the Holy Ghost is God of spirit and the messenger of the Father and the Son.  Never doubt the resurrection of the dead and immortality of the soul—that the destiny of man is eternal progress.  Never again doubt that the mission of the Latter-day Saints is for all mankind, both the living and the dead and that the great work in the Holy Temples for the living and the dead has only begun.  Know this, that Joseph Smith was sent of God to usher in the gospel dispensation of the fullness of times, which is the last unto mortals upon the earth.  His successors have recognized and ordained head of the Church of Jesus Christ upon the earth.  Give him your confidence and support.  Much you have seen and heard you will not be permitted to repeat when you return.  Thus saying he bade me good bye and God bless you."

I traveled quite a distance through various scenes and passing innumerable people before I reached the spheres which I first entered.  On my way I was greeted by many friends and relatives certain of whom sent word of greetings and counsel to their dear ones, my mother being one of them.  One other I will mention, I met Brother John Adamson, his wife and his son James and their daughter Isabelle, all of whom were killed by a foul assassin in their home at Carey, Idaho in the mortality and immediately said, "Tell the children that we are very happy and very busy and they should not mourn at our departing, nor worry their minds over the manner by which we were taken.  There is a purpose in it, and we have work to do here which required our collective efforts and which we could not do individually."  I was at once made to know that the work referred to was that of Genealogy on which they were working in England and Scotland.

One of the grandest and most sacred things of heaven is the family relationship.  The establishment of the complete chain without any broken links being a fullness of joy.  Links wholly bad will be dropped out and either new links put in or the two adjoining links welded together.  Men and women everywhere throughout the world are being moved upon by their departed ancestors to gather genealogies.  These are the links for the chain.  The ordinances of Baptism, Endowments, and Sealings performed in the Temples of God by the living for the dead are the welding of the links.  Ordinances are performed in the spirit world effectualizing the individual recipient for their receiving the saving principles of the gospel vicariously performed here.

As I was approaching the place where I entered, my attention was attracted towards a number of small groups of women, preparing what appeared to be wearing apparel.  Observing my inquiring countenance one of the women remarked, "We are preparing to receive Brother Phillip Worthington very soon."  As I gasped his name in repetition I was admonished, "If you knew the joy and the glorious mission that awaits him here you would not ask to have him longer detained upon the earth."  Then came flooding my consciousness this awful truth, that the will of the Lord can be done on earth as it in is heaven, only when we resign completely to His will and let His will be done in and through us.  On account of the selfishness of many, persons who might have otherwise been taken in innocence and peace, have been permitted to live, and have lived to their own perils, man and the assertion of the personal will as against the will of God.  Phillip Worthington died January 22, 1920, for which I was advised by telegram, and returning to Boise, preached his funeral sermon on January 25, 1920.

Men, women and children are often called to missions of great importance on the other side, and some respond gladly while others refuse to go and their loved ones will not give them up.  Also, many die because they have not the faith to be healed.  Others yet live among and pass out of the world of mortals without any special manifestation of action of the divine will.  When a man is stricken ill, the question of prime importance is not... is he going to live?  Or is he going to die?  What matter is not whether he lives or dies as long as the will of the Father is done.

Surely we can trust him with God.  Herein lies the special duty and privilege of administration by the right and authority of the Holy Priesthood.  Namely, it is given to the Elders of the Church of Jesus Christ to divine the will of the Father concerning the one upon whose head their hands are laid.  If for any reason they are unable to presage the Father's will, then they should continue to pray in faith for the afflicted ones, humbly conceding supremacy to do the will of God, that His will may be done in earth as it in done in heaven.

To the righteous person, birth into the world of sprits is a glorious privilege and blessing.  The greatest spirits in the family of the Father have not usually been permitted to tarry longer in the flesh than to perform a certain mission; then they are called to the world of spirits where the field is greater and the workers fewer.  This earthly mission, may therefore, be long or short, as the Father wills.

I passed quietly out where I had entered the world of spirits and immediately my body was quickened, and I was to ponder over and record the many wonderful things I had seen and heard.

Let me here and now declare to the world that irrespective of the opinion of others I do know of my own positive knowledge and from my own personal experience, that God is the Father of the spirits of all men, and that He lives, that Jesus Christ is His Son and the Savior of the world, that the spirit of man does not die but survives the change called death and goes to the world of spirits, that the world of spirits is on or near this earth, that the principles of salvation are now being taught to the spirits and the great work of joining the Father's family among the living and the dead is now in progress, and that but comparatively few will ultimately be lost, that spirits will literally take up their bodies again in the resurrection, and that the gospel of Jesus Christ has been established upon the earth with all of its keys, powers, authority, and blessings through the instrumentality of the Prophet Joseph Smith, that this is the power that will not only save and exalt everyone who yields obedience to its principles, but will ultimately save the world, that the burden of our mission is to save souls unto God, and that the work for the salvation of the dead is of no less importance than the work for the living.