by Dan Wees | May 1, 2018 | Miscellaneous
During an 6 April 1837 discourse, Joseph Smith, Jr. stated, “The Seventies are to be taken from the quorum of Elders, and are not to be High Priests.” Joseph Smith, Jr., History of Joseph Smith and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints – Volume 2...
by Dan Wees | May 1, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“Remember: when you see the bitter apostate, you do not see only an absence of light, you see also the presence of darkness. Do not spread disease germs!” Boyd K. Packer, “The Mantle is Far, Far Greater Than the Intellect” (Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Studies,...
by Dan Wees | May 1, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“I always feel that it is my duty to look to myself, for I am in as much danger of apostatizing as any in the Church. If I ever do get led astray and depart from the principles of the gospel of salvation, it will be because I led myself off from the path; it was not...
by Dan Wees | May 1, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“Defectors became a kind of bogey to haunt all inhabitants of the Mormon Kingdom. Without vigilance and strength of character they [other members], like the defectors, could become overwhelmed by the baseness of their character and, thus, open to Satan’s enticements....
by Dan Wees | May 1, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“[P]unishment by death was the penalty for refusing to obey the orders of the Priesthood … I knew of many men being killed in Nauvoo by the Danites. It was then the rule that all enemies of Joseph Smith should be killed, and I know of many a man who was quietly...
by Dan Wees | May 1, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“[F]alse ideas that were invented to rationalize our earlier racist practices are still with us … a majority of bright, well-educated Mormon students say they believe that Blacks are descendants of Cain and Ham and thereby cursed and that skin color is an...
