by Dan Wees | Oct 1, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“’What! Is the earth alive too?’ If it were not, how could the words of our text be fulfilled, where it speaks of the earth’s dying? How can that die that has no life?” Orson Pratt, Journal of Discourses – Volume 1 (Liverpool, England: F.D. and S.W....
by Dan Wees | Sep 30, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“Where did the earth come from? From its parent earths.” Heber C. Kimball – 8 November 1857, Journal of Discourses – Volume 6 (Liverpool, England: Asa Calkin, 1859),...
by Dan Wees | Sep 29, 2018 | Miscellaneous
S A I N T S: “ANOTHER FAILED PROPHECY” “Emma endured an agonizing labor and gave birth to a boy. The baby was frail and sickly and did not live long. The ordeal left Emma physically drained and emotionally devastated, and for a time it seemed she might die too.”...
by Dan Wees | Sep 29, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“There is life in all matter, throughout the vast extent of all eternities; it is in the rock, the sand, the dust, in water, air, the gases, and, in short, in every description and organization of matter, whether it be solid, liquid, or gaseous, particle operating...
by Dan Wees | Sep 29, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“The earth is a living creature and breathes as much as you and I do.” Brigham Young, Teachings of President Brigham Young – Volume 3, 1852-1854, edited and compiled by Fred C. Collier (Salt Lake City, UT: Collier’s Publishing Co., 1987), 241; see also The...
by Dan Wees | Sep 28, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“[The Book of Mormon is] grotesque. It is a mélange of plagiarisms from the Old and New Testaments, without order or regularity, easily traced, and intermingled with watery parodies of nothing in particular, signifying nothing. But, in this monstrosity, born of deceit...
