| Latter Day Light DAILY DEVOTIONAL March 9, 2017 Let Your Light Shine |
SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY Matthew 5:14-16
"Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven."
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QUOTE OF THE DAY Heber J. Grant
"I want to say to the Latter-day Saints that it behooves us, having received a testimony of the divinity of the work in which we are engaged, to so order our lives from day to day that glory shall be brought to the work of God by the good deeds that we perform, so letting our light shine that men, seeing our good deeds, shall glorify God" (Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Heber J. Grant, p. 96). |
DAILY READING SCHEDULE
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2 Nephi 23:1 - 24:2
Doctrine & Covenants 38:1-10
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TODAY IN CHURCH HISTORY March 9
1833 - The Prophet Joseph Smith receives the revelation known as Doctrine and Covenants 91, informing him "that it is not needful that the Apocrypha should be translated"
1834 - The Prophet Joseph Smith, traveling and recruiting brethren to join Zion's Camp to help the Saints in Missouri, preached in a schoolhouse finding "a few disciples who were firm in the faith; and, after meeting found many believing and could hardly get away from them" (History of the Church, 2:42). They stayed at the home of Warren Cowdery.
1843 - John B. Cowan took the decision of Judge Pope, made in January, along with other legal documents, to present them to the Governor of Iowa. It was hoped he would recall a writ for the Prophet Joseph's arrest if he were to cross the river into Iowa to visit the Saints there. The writ for his arrest had been issued in response to the request of the Governor of Missouri and it was hoped the recent decision made in the District Court in Springfield, Illinois, would also end the Prophet's legal problems in Iowa.
1844 - Brother King Follett was killed in Nauvoo, Illinois, in an accident while "walling up a well." His death would provide the background for one of the Prophet Joseph's greatest sermons, the King Follett Discourse, a few weeks later during April General Conference held in Nauvoo.
1982 - With President Kimball in attendance, President Marion G. Romney of the First Presidency, dedicates the Spencer W. Kimball Tower, the tallest building on the campus of Brigham Young University-Provo.
1997 - Chile becomes the fourth nation in the world with one hundred stakes with the organization of the Puerto Varas Chile stake.
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