Man’s wants are very numerous, but his necessities are really very few, and we should abridge our wants, and go to work and manufacture everything we can within ourselves; and what we cannot manufacture we can import, and save ourselves the 40, 120, 400, or 1,000 percent that we are now paying for our merchandise, […]
Monthly Archives: April 2018
313. What Zion is and is not – George Q. Cannon quote, 1883
…when Zion is organized properly, it will be found to be as admirably adapted to the wants of the children of men as the organization of the Church is today to the wants of the people. There will be nothing lacking. In every particular it will be found adequate to the wants of humanity. The […]
312. Early Utahns Were Building Zion – Henry B. Eyring quote, 2009
In the terrible days of persecution and deprivation as the faithful moved from Ohio to Missouri to Illinois and then across the deserts going west, the sisters in their poverty and sorrows cared for others…. Some were young and some old. They were from many lands and peoples, as you are today. But they were […]
311. Babylon – Zion’s Antithesis – Brigham Young quote, 1874
We have gone just as far as we can be permitted to go in the road on which we are now traveling. One man has his eye on a gold mine, another is for a silver mine, another is for marketing his flour or his wheat, another for selling his cattle, another to raise cattle, […]
310. We are obligated to build Zion – George A. Smith quote, 1867
Joseph, the Prophet, told us to go to work and build up the cities of Zion, and not to build up strange cities. – George A. Smith, 12/29/1867
Thoughts on Zion #61 – Crossing From Babylon to Zion
Over the last eight columns, we’ve reviewed teachings of the early LDS leaders regarding Babylon, Zion’s “antithesis and antagonist”. They taught: We live in Babylon, both spiritually and economically. Though the Saints left Babylon to build a Zion in Utah, they unfortunately brought Babylonian values, practices, and traditions with them. Babylon is “the false organization […]
309. Economic Unity – Lorenzo Snow quote, 1876
I tell you, in the name of the Lord God, that the time is coming when there will be no safety only in the principles of union, for therein lies the secret of our temporal and spiritual salvation. We have been enabled to establish settlements, towns, and villages, and we have been abundantly blessed with […]