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SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY Doctrine and Covenants 88:119 |
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Organize yourselves; prepare every needful thing; and establish a house, even a house of prayer, a house of fasting, a house of faith, a house of learning, a house of glory, a house of order, a house of God.
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QUOTE OF THE DAY Howard W. Hunter |
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“It is the Lord Himself who, in His revelations to us, has made the temple the great symbol for members of the Church. Think of the attitudes and righteous behaviors that the Lord pointed us toward in the counsel He gave to the Kirtland Saints through the Prophet Joseph Smith as they were preparing to build a temple. This counsel is still applicable” (Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Howard W. Hunter, p. 179).
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TODAY IN CHURCH HISTORY November 11, 2020 |
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1838 - It was during this time of imprisonment in Richmond, Missouri, that Parley P. Pratt records in his Autobiography the Prophet Joseph’s rebuke of the guards. Brother Pratt writes that the seven men, chained together, tried to get to sleep while the guards “recounted to each other their deeds of rapine, murder, robbery, etc., which they had committed among the ‘Mormons’ while at Far West and vicinity. They even boasted of defiling by force wives, daughters and virgins, and of shooting or dashing out the brains of men, women, and children. I had listened till I became so disgusted, shocked, horrified, and so filled with the spirit of indignant justice that I could scarcely refrain from rising upon my feet and rebuking the guards; but had said nothing to Joseph, or anyone else, although I lay next to him and knew he was awake. On a sudden he arose to his feet, and spoke in a voice of thunder, or as the roaring lion, uttering, as nearly as I can recollect, the following words: ‘Silence, ye fiends of the infernal pit! In the name of Jesus Christ I rebuke you, and command you to be still; I will not live another minute and hear such language. Cease such talk, or you or I will die this instant!’ He ceased to speak. He stood erect in terrible majesty. . . . dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains, at midnight in a dungeon, in an obscure village in Missouri” (Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt, p. 228-230).
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