Surely, the end is near as we read the signs of the times, but when? . Yet today we worship the gods of wood and stone and metal. 10:12, He that fighteth against Zion shall perish 2 Ne. We read of those who have yielded to the fashion of the time and lived together without being legally married and wonder why such people do not realize that there can be no finding of their identity nor any real sense of belonging while they trample underfoot the commandments of God. Fasting, family prayer, home teaching, control of bodily appetites, preaching the gospel, studying the scriptureseach act of dedication and obedience is a drop added to our store. At midnight! He learned from diligent and faithful parents to work hard on the farm and in school and to love the gospel. They are houses, lands, bank accounts, leisure. There is one principle, a modern prophet said, (that we should) understand:that is of blessings and cursings. These men are among the prophets of God, just as were the prophets of the Book of Mormon and of the Bible. No wonder we who bear the plan of salvation feel a special urgency in sharing the gospel, because we love our own neighbor. On occasions when you ache for that acceptance and affection which belong to family life on earth, please know that our Father in Heaven is aware of your anguish, and that one day he will bless you beyond your capacity to express. War clouds gather, fear heightens; tenseness increases, yet there need be no fear and worry and sleepless nights. A Sabbath show or a game or a race replaces solemn worship. (Published as Spencer W. Kimball, "'When the World Will Be Converted,'" Ensign, October 1974, 3-14.) Prophets have a way of jarring the carnal mind. (Luke 12:19-20.) Spencer W. Kimball : biography March 28, 1895 - November 5, 1985 As World War II neared its conclusion, Kimball and other LDS church leaders constantly responded to the needs of the friends and families of LDS war casualties. and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. He describes himself as a lad whom the people despised and who was slow of speech; yet he did his duty in love and compassion with stunning success. How can one share obedience to the principle of tithing; a mind at peace from righteous living; an accumulation of knowledge? The prophets have always been free from the evil of their times, free to be divine auditors who will still call fraud, fraud; embezzlement, embezzlement; and adultery, adultery. For instance, we read that war, pestilence, plagues, famine, etc., will be visited upon the inhabitants of the earth, but if distress through the judgments of God comes upon this people, it will be because the majority have turned away from the Lord., The worlds living prophet has warned and pleaded that the people return to God, who has said again: I, the Lord, am bound when ye do what I say; but when ye do not what I say, ye have no promise D&C 82:10. ye cannot enter now. While the iron curtains rise and thicken, we eat, drink, and make merry. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. That is half as many divorces as marriages. May God help us in the opportunities which are ours to live righteously as a way of witnessing to the world, to speak out humbly but forthrightly, to lead out effectively and thoughtfully, ever using the gospel of Jesus Christ as our constant guide. Among the real heroines in the world who will come into the Church are women who are more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish. (Matthew 24:29-31, 36. ) It is only the "when" that is unknown. This past month I have received hundreds and hundreds of birthday cards. I beg of you to listen and act, in the name of Jesus Christ. Its symptoms are manifested in every corner of the globe. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen. Would he ever come? They're not too much this or too . . April 1966 General Conference, Ezra Taft Benson: Our God-given Rights October 1968 General Conference. Granaries and barns will bulge in seed time and harvest. Your heaven shall be as iron and your earth as brass. True, there are some temporary differences and some constraining circumstances. Changes can come best if we take one item at a time.https. He served diligently despite various severe health problems. been destroyed from generation to generation according to their iniquities; and never hath any of them been destroyed save it were foretold them by the prophets of the Lord 2 Ne. Again, you must be wise in the choices that you make, but we do not desire the women of the Church to be uninformed or ineffective. 2:18). We want our homes to be blessed with sister scriptorianswhether you are single or married, young or old, widowed or living in a family. It is a capitulation to the carnal in man and a rejection of joy and beauty in this life and in the world to come. It cannot remember its previous illnesses nor the cure which was applied. The great powers warn and threaten. So long had it been since they began expecting him that they were rationalizing that he would never appear. We had full equality as his spirit children. Remember, too, as we focus on the glories and importance of family life here, that all of us belong to the eternal family of our Father in Heaven. For many years, this book has been widely read by the membership and even recommended at general conferences. . We need men and women who think of things that have never been thought of and who dream of things that have never been dreamed of, and who ask, "Why not?" The sun was shining and life moved forward as usual. Because of World War I, he served in the Central States Mission instead. For as the . We have the general warning that comes from these world conditions, but we have no precise timetable. O that men would listen! Today is another day, but history repeats itself. Terror is substituted for reason. Far from freeing those involved, sin is an admission of surrender to the herd. I'm grateful He let me choose Him. The ways of the world will not prevail, for the ways of God will triumph. . Attendance at sacrament meetings adds oil to our lamps, drop by drop over the years. But finally the net was in shallow water and the fish began to jump frantically, trying to escape. So often the prophets have been rejected because they first rejected the wrong ways of their own society. Prophets who were not glib, but slow of speech, were esteemed as naught. Many have found it too difficult and they slumber without due preparation. and the four new members of the First Quorum of the Seventy who poured out their hearts in those moments they had? . They had been warned all their lives. . 5:1-31 When the protectors sleep and the leaders are incapacitated with banqueting and drunkenness and immorality, an invading enemy can turn a river from its course and enter through a river bed Isa. The day of the marriage feast approaches. We wish you to pursue and to achieve that education, therefore, which will fit you for eternity as well as for full service in mortality. They learn to cast all their cares upon the Lord. How good God has been to us all in blessing us with these answers and assuranceseven though these truths place upon us serious and everlasting obligations. Illegitimate births are said to reach as high as one in ten, yet promiscuity far exceeds illegitimacy. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. Free love and indiscretions and deviations of every nature are common in our day. Later, Kimball became Mormonism's twelfth president. I was invited to participate. But this talk, by Spencer W. Kimball, was different. Instead of responding to Pauls message, some saw his bodily presence as weak and regarded his speech as contemptible. I leave this testimony with you with my love and my blessings. While he was president, he dedicated twenty-one temples, including the Washington, D.C. Temple. Has there ever been an era when so many nations, large and small, have been involved in wars? Fear would vanish, and enemies would be subdued. Certainly, there are today false Christs and deceivers in the land such as were spoken of by the Lord from the heights of the Mount of Olives. Nothing less will do under those conditions. You need, more and more, to feel the perfect love which our Father in Heaven has for you and to sense the value he places upon you as an individual. We read of the increased portion of our children who are being reared by a single parent and wonder again about what will come when the law of the harvest operates. Paul had difficulty because there were no leaders of thought among the Jews: Jesus was seen as a stumbling block, and among the Greeks, Christianity was seen as foolishness. We wonder why those of coarse and profane conversation, even if they refuse obedience to Gods will, are so stunted mentally that they let their capacity to communicate grow more and more narrow. It was baptized by water, and its sins were washed away. 20:14 italics added). It is the parable of the Ten Virgins, a powerful warning to all men. As the grandson of Heber C. Kimball and the son of a mission and stake president, Spencer W. Kimball grew up learning of and meeting prophets and apostles. In Tennyson's poem "Guinevere," the queen, repenting her infidelity, recognizes that the harm she has caused cannot be undone: He gave us another parable to try to make clear the importance of being always prepared. The trees will be without fruit and the fields without verdure. In the Church there is full equality between man and woman. LDS doctrinal teachings about the atonement, repentance, and the plan of salvation. This is substantially better than the average, but we are chagrined that there should be any divorce following a temple . While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. The knowledge we gain must push us to act, leading us to God and revelation from him. He also stayed involved in the growth of his community through civic and volunteer organizations. This I know, for the Lord has so declared it through the ages, and I know he lives and is all powerful. We have equality as recipients of Gods perfected love for each of us. These realities will not go away simply because we have different opinions about them. And learning this the bridegroom will relent. Some of you have not yet had the great privilege of marriage. Sometimes people let their hearts get so set upon things and the honors of this world that they cannot learn the lessons they most need to learn. 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Even so, why else is the record of rejection so complete? But it can be only through a great repentance and transformation. Once the carnal in man is no longer checked by the restraints of family life and by real religion, there comes an avalanche of appetites which gathers momentum that is truly frightening. President Boyd K. Packer indicated that Elder Kimball felt that his father came to him in this dream to let Spencer know that he approved of his life. I ask you: What value is a car without an engine, a cup without water, a table without food, a lamp without oil? Even though the eternal roles of men and women differ, as we indicated to you a year ago, this leaves much to be done by way of parallel personal developmentfor both men and women. Precisely at the darkest hour, when least expected, the bridegroom came. There has been denial because the prophet came from an obscure place. The initiated who knew fish and were able to judge picked the worthless ones and cast them back into the sea. With bulging eyes and gasping mouths they struggled. Its symptoms are carelessness, casualness, covetousness, slothfulness, selfishness, dishonesty, disobedience, immorality, uncleanness, unfaithfulness, ungodliness. Your poweryour supremacyyour pride in superioritywill be broken. As both the wheat and the tares grew up in the same field together, the question was asked of the landowner, "Shall we go and gather up the tares?" (See 1Sam. This university is not of the world any more than the Church is of the world, and it must not be made over in the image of the world. Feeling a special love and concern for those in the lands of the Book of Mormon, President Kimball conducted several area conferences in South America. Now as we conclude this general conference, let us all give heed to what was said to us. The first area presidents outside of the United States and Canada were also set apart. I am prepared to live or die and need not fear. Jesus spoke of famines and pestilences and we remember Biafra and Bangladesh. All of the virgins, wise and foolish, had accepted the invitation to the wedding supper; they had knowledge of the program and had been warned of the important day to come. He gave us the parable of the farmer who sowed good seed in his ground but whose enemy planted tares in the field. How can one share faith or testimony? 10:11, I will fortify this land against all other nations 2 Ne. (Matthew 25:1-13.) . As we follow the teachings of Christ, we will feel the Spirit testify the truth of the things we do. It has had shorter periods of good health, but longer ones of ailing. Those who were so busy being indignant with David missed the purity in Davids indignation at Goliath, for the giant was defying the armies of the living God. (1 Thessalonians 5:2-4.) Within those great assurances, however, our roles and assignments differ. By one means or another, the swiftest method of rejection of the holy prophets has been to find a pretext, however false or absurd, to dismiss the man so that his message could also be dismissed. In 1972, he underwent open-heart surgerya practice pioneered and performed by President Russell M. Nelson. This America is no ordinary country. Most of the time there have been pains and aches in some parts of its anatomy, but now that it is growing old, complications have set in, and all the ailments seem to be everywhere. What a bleak prediction! Can they change? 20:9 italics added). After serving in stake presidencies and as a stake president, in 1943 Spencer W. Kimball was ordained an apostle. Spencer W. Kimball From an address delivered at a Regional Representatives Seminar on Thursday, 4 April 1974. Other rebellious people were destroyed in the convulsions of the earth in the meridian of time, and they who were more righteous were saved. The righteous were saved in Enochs day and the wicked were drowned in the flood. But a controlling majority of the people of this world have relegated them to the past. But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. Bombs are detonated. . Spencer W. Kimball began work as a bank clerk, then moved on to the life insurance and real estate industries. They needed all their oil for themselves; they could not save the foolish. Their examples helped him gain a testimony of their callings as ministers of Jesus Christ. Amen.Spencer W. Kimball,Conference Report, October 1961, pp. Numerous mothers prefer the added luxuries of two incomes to the satisfactions of seeing children grow up in the fear of God Deut. 20:3 italics added). He desires the happiness and well being of all his children. He also toured the Middle East and dedicated the Orson Hyde Memorial Garden on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. (1 Thessalonians 5:2, 6-7.) He later became the church's president . No traffic will jam your desolate highways. As one jars loose and begins to roll down hill, still another breaks loose, whether it is an increase in homosexuality, corruption, drugs, or abortion. For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. 1:7, And there shall be none to molest them 2 Ne. Spencer W. Kimball, The Miracle of Forgiveness 1 likes Like "We would all be well advised to avoid the motivation to the evil thought. If race tracks were closed on the Sabbath, if gambling ceased, drinking eliminated, work and play confined to week days; if stores were closed and all people went to their sanctuaries truly to worship even as best they know; if taverns never opened, and transgressors all repented, and broken homes were mended, and children were trained in uprightness; if families all knelt in prayer night and morning, if tithes were paid and integrity and worship reigned in the lives of men, the era of total peace would be ushered in.

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