principle that every man is accountable for his acts, and shall
be judged in the light of the law as made known to him.

There is no claim of universal forgiveness; no unwarranted
glorification of Mercy to the degrading or neglect of Justice; no
thought that a single sin of omission or of commission shall fail
to leave its wound or scar. In the great future there shall be
found a place for every soul, whatever his grade of spiritual
intelligence may be. "In my Father's house are many mansions,"
(John 14:2), declared the Savior to his apostles; and Paul adds,
"There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial; but the
glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial
is another. There is one glory of the sun and another glory of
the moon and another glory of the stars; for one star differeth
from another star in glory. So also is the resurrection of the
dead," (I Cor. 15:40-42). The Latter-day Saints claim a
revelation of the present dispensation as supplementing the
scripture just quoted. From this later scripture (see D&C, Sec.
76), we learn that there are three well-defined degrees in the
future state, with numerous, perhaps numberless, gradations.

There is the _celestial state_ provided for those who have lived
the whole law, who have accepted the testimony of the Christ, who
have complied with the required ordinances of the gospel, who
have been valiant in the cause of virtue and truth. Then there
is the _terrestrial state_, comparable to the first as is the
moon to the sun. This shall be given to the less valiant, to
many who are nevertheless among the worthy men of the earth, but
who perchance have been deceived as to the gospel and its
requirements. The _telestial state_ is for those who have failed