| Latter Day Light DAILY DEVOTIONAL December 11 Lost Battalions |
SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY Matthew 25:40
"And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."
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QUOTE OF THE DAY Thomas S. Monson
"Consider the 'lost battalions' of the aged, the widowed, the sick. All too often they are found in the parched and desolate wilderness of isolation called loneliness. When youth departs, when health declines, when vigor wanes, when the light of hope flickers ever so dimly, the members of these vast "lost battalions" can be succored and sustained by the hand that helps and the heart that knows compassion" ("Lost Battalions," Ensign, June 1971). |
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TODAY IN CHURCH HISTORY December 11
1830 - The Prophet Joseph Smith receives the revelations known as Doctrine and Covenants 35 and 36 in behalf of Sidney Rigdon and Edward Partridge. Edward Partridge was baptized on this day and he would later become the first bishop of the Church. (History of the Church, 1:129-131)
1843 - The Prophet Joseph Smith wrote an affidavit (concerning the kidnaping of Brother Daniel Avery) and letter to Governor Ford of Illinois asking for his help in supporting the law and protecting the lives of the Saints. Meetings were held in the ten wards of the city of Nauvoo and resolutions were passed requesting the city to raise a company of forty men to act as police. The need for a larger police force was evident when the night before, two ruffians went into the house of Richard Badham, a farmer who lived outside the city, and robbed and stabbed him. (History of the Church, 6:109-110)
1845 - A letter had arrived from Brother Samuel Brannan to the Quorum of the Twelve informing them that he had been in Washington D.C. and had learned that the Secretary of War and other cabinet members were laying plans to prevent the Saints from moving to the west. Since they didn't want them to go west and didn't want them to stay in the states, obliteration was their choice. The Twelve prayed that "the Lord would defeat and frustrate all the plans of our enemies, and inasmuch as they lay plans to exterminate this people and destroy the priesthood from off the earth, that the curse of God may come upon them" (History of the Church, 7:544). Brigham Young and others officiated in the Temple the rest of the day.
1846 - The Mormon Battalion fights a herd of wild bulls near the San Pedro River, resulting in the death of ten to fifteen bulls and the wounding of three men.
1847 - Sixteen members of the Mormon Battalion arrived home to their families in Winter Quarters.
1960 - The first stake in Nebraska is organized and is named the Winter Quarters Stake.
1982 - The first full-time missionaries arrive in the Bahamas.
1994 - President Howard W. Hunter presides at the creation of the Mexico City Mexico Conreras Stake, the two thousandth stake in the Church.
1999 - The Edmonton Alberta Temple is dedicated by President Gordon B. Hinckley. |
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