If you are a Latter-Day Saint, interested in living in a future Zion society, you would probably like to know specific details on how to actually become a Zion person. We’ve been taught we need to become pure in heart, but haven’t been given clear, specific steps to take. By exploring the word of God […]
Monthly Archives: April 2015
9. What Building Zion Requires of Us, Daniel H. Wells, 1859
“Are we ready now to take hold with one heart and with one mind to man the ship Zion — build a temple for instance? Are you ready, by a skilful and judicious husbandry of the soil, to bring forth its rich fruits, and store them up until you are called upon to contribute your […]
8. What Building Zion Requires of Us, Lorenzo Snow
Brethren, your eye should be single to the glory of God, to hearkening to the counsel of brother Brigham, and to the building up of Zion, then your bodies would be filled with spirit, and your understandings with light, and your hearts with joy, and your souls would be quickened into eternal life with the […]
7. What Building Zion Requires of Us, Jedediah M. Grant, 1854
“We may talk of making our own heaven, and of building up the city of Zion, and making it beautiful, and having it polished after the similitude of a palace, but we must have an experience in doing such a work, before we can accomplish it.” [emphases added] – Apostle Jedidiah M. Grant, 9/24/1854 In […]
Thoughts on Zion 28: Lorenzo Snow’s Experimental Zion Community
During the decade beginning in 1864, under the direction of Apostle Lorenzo Snow, Brigham City became a glowing example of Zion-like self-sufficiency and independence from the American economic system. When an extended financial crisis hit Utah in 1873, Brigham City barely noticed and their economy expanded in that year more than ever. Brigham City became […]