Viewing 1 - 5 out of 44 Blogs.

Page:  1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Next >  Last >>

Week 15 -- Gentleness, Patience, Forgiveness

By Linda and Richard Eyre

 

It was Tennyson who spoke of “gentleness, which, when it weds with manhood, makes the man."  In our Lord this wedding was supreme, for despite his strength and power he possessed the greatest tenderness and compassion of anyone who has lived on earth.

 

... Read More

The First Splinter (1831)
 

According to George A. Smith, speaking in the tabernacle in Salt
Lake City in January 1858, the first schismatic group in the Restored Church was established in Kirtland, Ohio, in 1831. Wycam Clark and Northrop Sweet, both having been converted by the Lamanite Missionaries in November 1830, joined with four other apostates and established what they termed the "Pure Church of Christ" with Clark as prophet. They believed Joseph to be a fallen prophet... Read More

"And More Too" (1831)

Much has been said about Martin Harris' loss of his farm to pay for the printing of the Book of Mormon. What is less known is that although the farm was sold at auction in April 1831, supposedly to pay off the printer's debt, the editor Pomeroy Tucker judged that Martin could have paid the bill from other resources. It should also be remembered that Martin had to dispose of his property anyway in making his move to Kirtland. And finally, in an interview given to a... Read More

What Manner of Man:

A Weekly Program to Better Know the Savior

 

Week 14 -- Extra-Centeredness

By Linda and Richard Eyre

 

... Read More

The First Message (1830)

The first message of the Restored Gospel to be taken to the descendants of the Book of Mormon people was to the Cattaraugus Indians near Buffalo, New York. This Lamanite mission by Parley P. Pratt, Oliver Cowdery, Peter Whitmer, Jr., and Ziba Peterson also visited the Wyandots in Ohio and the Delawares west of Missouri. Ironically, the mission's greatest success was not among the Lamanites but among a group of Campbellites in Ohio. There they converted Sidney Rigd... Read More

Page:  1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Next >  Last >>