Ran across a long talk by Orson Pratt, given 3/9/1873. He begins by quoting D&C 78: 3 For verily I say unto you, the time has come, and is now at hand; and behold, and lo, it must needs be that there be an organization of my people, in regulating and establishing the affairs of […]
Monthly Archives: August 2014
Any Doubt Building Zion is Also an Economic Activity?
Sure enjoying reading all the Zion-related quotes by early Utah Church leaders. Here’s a doozy. Bet you can’t read this one without realizing that building Zion is as much an economic activity as it is a spiritual one. This is President Brigham Young: Suppose we should say to a few of the Latter-day Saints, if […]
“Lest ye receive of her plagues”
Studying the discourses given by early LDS Church leaders about Zion, I ran across this jewel given by Brigham Young on 2/3/1867: And one of the last writers we have here in this book—John the Revelator—looking at the Church in the latter days, says: “Come out of her, my people”—out of Babylon, out of this […]
Thoughts on Zion 21 – Building Zion Spiritually

“This body of people, or church, has got to build up the Zion of God in the last days, and this work cannot be accomplished upon any other principle than that of our being united together as the heart of one man.”
Jesse 'Thoughts on Zion' newspaper column revelation, sanctification, unity