apply
the result to Intelligences as individuals or as the race. Given time
enough, this endless and eternal advancement must result in a state of
perfection that those who attain to it may with truth and propriety be
called Gods. Therefore, there must be a God, yes, many Gods living and
reigning throughout the limitless regions of glorified space.

"Here is corroborative evidence: I read in the Doctrine and Covenants,
Section 88: 'All kingdoms have a law given; and there are many kingdoms;
for there is no space in the which there is no kingdom; and there is
no kingdom in which there is no space, either a greater or a lesser
kingdom. And unto every kingdom is given a law; and unto every law there
are certain bounds also and conditions.'

"There is a hymn in our hymn book in which W.W. Phelps expresses this
idea beautifully. Let me read it:

'If you could hie to Kolob,
In the twinkling of an eye,
And then continue onward,
With that same speed to fly.

'Do you think that you could ever,
Through all eternity,
Find out the generation
Where Gods began to be?

'Or see the grand beginning
Where space did not extend?
Or view the last creation,
Where Gods and matter end?

'Methinks the Spirit whispers:
No man has found "pure space,"
Nor seen the outside curtains,
Where nothing has a place.

'The works of God continue,
And worlds and lives abound;
Improvement and progression
Have one eternal round.

'There is no end to matter,
There is no end to space,
There is no end to spirit,
There is no end to race.

'There is no end to virtue,
There is no end to might,
There is no end to wisdom,
There is no end to light.

'There is no end to union,
There is no end to youth,
There is no end to priesthood,
There is no end to truth.

'There is no end to glory,
There is no end to love,
There is no end to being,
Grim death reigns not above.'

"The Latter-day Saints have been adversely criticized for holding out
such astounding hopes for the future of the human race; but let
us reason a little more, beginning nearer home. What has the race
accomplished, even within the short span of our own recollection? Man is
fast conquering the forces of nature about him, and making these forces
to serve him. Now, we must remember that duration extends ahead of us in
the same limitless way in which it reaches back. Give, the