| Latter Day Light DAILY DEVOTIONAL December 20, 2017 World's Goods #Light the World |
SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY Luke 12:15
"And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth."
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QUOTE OF THE DAY John Taylor
"The gold and the silver are His, and so are the cattle upon a thousand hills; and to him belongs power to command all things. And what we do possess of this world's goods is given unto us to make a wise use of, because we cannot take them with us when we shall be called hence. It is for us, as Saints of the Most High, to be honest and upright and take a correct course, to be full of integrity and maintain correct principles everywhere and at all times" (Teachings of Presidents of the Church: John Taylor, p. 180). |
DAILY READING SCHEDULE
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Ether 13:12 - 14:2
Pearl of Great Price: JS--History 1:20-24
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TODAY IN CHURCH HISTORY December 20
1838 - Emma Smith visits her husband, the Prophet Joseph Smith, in Liberty Jail in Missouri. She spends two days with him confined in the jail.
1839 - The first missionaries, Alexander Wright and Samuel Mulliner, arrive in Scotland and begin to preach the gospel.
1840 - The Prophet Joseph Smith was called upon by the Nauvoo High Council to decide the case against Robert D. Foster. The Prophet Joseph's decision acquitted him. (History of the Church, 4:250) In 1844, Dr. Foster would become one of the apostates involved with the Nauvoo Expositor.
1842 - Elder Lorenzo D. Barnes dies at Bradford, England. He is the first missionary to die while serving a foreign mission. Also, the brethren who had been in Springfield, Illinois, to meet with the governor and state supreme court, arrived back in Nauvoo and reported to the Prophet Joseph and delivered the letters requesting the Prophet appear before the supreme court to receive his habeas corpus.
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