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A gracious Lord offers to all men all that they are capable of receiving. Even the heathen who are without the law shall come forth in the afternoon of the first resurrection and be blessed with a terrestrial inheritance that shall be tolerable for them.
Source: McConkie, Bruce R. The Mortal Messiah. The Messiah Series, Vol. 2. 453. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1981.
As stated, the heathen whose sins are those of ignorance are to come forth with the just in the first resurrection; but this does not imply that those children of the lower races are to inherit the glory provided for the able, the valiant and the true in the cause of God on earth.
Source: Talmage, James E. Articles of Faith, 6th ed. Salt Lake City, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1968. 404.