Latter Day Light DAILY DEVOTIONAL April 27, 2017 Experience |
SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY Doctrine & Covenants 105:10 "That they themselves may be prepared, and that my people may be taught more perfectly, and have experience, and know more perfectly concerning their duty, and the things which I require at their hands." |
QUOTE OF THE DAY George Albert Smith "Remember that it is the intelligence that you acquire that is eternal, the truth which you learn here and apply in your lives, the knowledge and experience you gain and profit by---these you will take with you when you go home" (Teachings of Presidents of the Church: George Albert Smith, p. 72). |
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TODAY IN CHURCH HISTORY April 27 1838 - The Prophet Joseph spent the day "writing a history of the Church from the earliest period of its existence, up to this date" (History of the Church, 3:25). 1842 - The Prophet Joseph records that he had spent the previous three days "in reading, meditation, &c., mostly with my family" (History of the Church, 4:601). 1844 - The case of Robert D. Foster came up for trial before the Municipal Court of Nauvoo. He charged Joseph Smith with "many crimes, and said that Daniteism was in Nauvoo; and he used a great variety of vile and false epithets and charges." The court adjourned until Monday, April 29th. The Prophet had a conversation with Robert Foster and they agreed to meet in May and "have a settlement." The Prophet asked him to be "quiet" until then, but Foster refused. "I then told him I had done my duty; the skirts of my garments were free from his (Foster's) blood; I had made the last overtures of peace to him; and then delivered him into the hands of God, and shook my garments against him as a testimony thereof" (History of the Church, 6:345). 1853 - Elders Hosea Stout, Chapman Duncan, and James Lewis arrive in Hong Kong and open China for the preaching of the gospel. 1887 - After spending two weeks in southern Alberta, Canada, Charles Ora Card, and those who traveled with him, select a site for a city to be the gathering place of the Latter-day Saints in western Canada. The site would later become Cardston. 1915 - The First Presidency of the Church inaugurates the family home evening program. 1955 - The First Presidency sends out a letter stating that Ricks College would become a junior college, ending its short period of being a four-year school. 1971 - Latter-day Saint James C. Fletcher is appointed as the chief administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and served until 1977. He again held the position from 1986-1989 in the aftermath of the space shuttle Challenger disaster. 1975 - Elder Thomas S. Monson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, stood on a hillside overlooking the Elbe River near Dresden, East Germany, and blessed and dedicated the land for the advancement of the work of the Lord and the dawning of a new beginning in East Germany. 1990 - Yuri V. Bubinin, the ambassador to the United States from the Soviet Union, makes a historic visit to Utah and announces that Church missionaries would be welcomed in Russia. 1991 - The Church begins computerizing worldwide membership records. |
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