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Перепечатываю с 1958 года издания. Нашла слово Негры и если вам будет интересно еще какие темы, я перепечатаю для вас. Да, вы были правы, этоWOW!!! Когда закончу, я помещу на форуме, а вас хотелось бы попросить перевести это на русский для остальных учстников, совершенный бриллиант!!!! 
Negroes. See Cain, Ham, Pre-existence, Priesthood, Races of Men. In the pre-existent eternity various degrees of valiance and devotion to the truth were exhibited by different groups of our Fathers spirit offspring. One-third of the spirit hosts of heaven came out in open rebellion and were cast out without bodies, becoming the devil and his angels. (D&C. 29:36-41; Rev. 12:3-9.) The other twothirds stood affirmatively for Christ; there were no neutrals. To stand neutral in the midst of war is a philosophical impossibility. The Lord said: @He tahat is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad. (Matt. 12:30/) Of the two-thirds who followed Christ, however, some were more valiant than others. Adam and all the prophets so distinguished themselves by diligence and obedience as to be foreordained to their high earthly mission. (Abra. 3:20-24/) The whole house of Israel was chosen in preexistence to come to mortality as children of Jacob. (Deut. 32:7-8.) Those who were less valiant in preexistence and who thereby had certain spiritual restrictions imposed upon them during mortality are known to us as the negroes. Such spirits are sent to earth through the lineage of Cain, the mark put upon him for his rebellion against God and his murder of Abel being a black skin. (Moses 5:16-41; 7:8? 12? 22/) Noahs son Ham married Egyptus, a descendant of Cain, thus preserving the negro lineage through the flood. (Abra. 1: 20-27/) Negroes in this life are denied the priesthood: under no circumstances can they hold this delegation of authority from the Almighty. (Abra. 1:20-27.) The gospel message of salvation is not carried affirmatively to them (Moses 7:8? 12? 22)? Although sometimes negroes search out the truth, join the Church, and become by righteous living heirs of the celestial kingdom of heaven. President Brigham Young and others have taught that in the future Eternity worthy and qualified negroes will receive the priesthood and every gospel blessing available to any man. (Way to Perfection, pp. 97-111.) The present status of the negro rests purely and simply on the foundation of pre-existence. Along with all races and peoples he is receiving here what he merits as a result of the long pre-mortal probation in the presence of the Lord/ The principle is the same as will apply when all men are judged according to their mortal works and are awarded varying statuses in the life hereafter. In this connection it should be noted that other nations, also, have had lesser restrictions placed on them as pertaining to receipt of the gospel truths in this life/ Christ limited his ministry to the lost sheep of the house of Israel and did not preach to the Gentiles. (Matt. 15:24/) He sent his apostles out initially with the same restriction (Matt. 10:5-6)? And it was with some difficulty that he persuaded them to go to all men when the period of Israels prior rights had expired. (mark 16:15; Acts 10.) The negroes are not equal with other races where the receipt of certain spiritual blessings are concerned, particularly the priesthood and the temple blessings that flow therefrom, but this inequality is not of mans origin. It is the Lords doing, is based on his eternal laws of justice, and grows out of the lack of spiritual valiance of those concerned in their first estate. Certainly the negroes as children of God are entitled to equality before the law and to be treated with all the dignity and respect of any member of the human race. Many of them certainly live according to higher standards of decency and right in the life than do some of their brothers of other races, a situation that will cause judgment to be laid to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: (Isa. 28: 17) in the day of judgment.
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