The title of Brigham Young’s discourse dated 2/3/1867 shows how he valued economic unity: “How Saints Should Order Their Vocation of Life. How Employ Their Wealth. To Build Up Zion, and not Babylon. Counsel of the Prophet Joseph. Prophet Brigham Young’s Experience Therein. Importance of Union in Things Temporal and Spiritual, Religious and Political.”
Monthly Archives: February 2016
84. What Building Zion Requires of Us, Brigham Young, 1860
We are all sinners, and it is our duty to cast sin from us when we learn what it is. If we are a little good, become a little better; if we have a little light, get a little more; if we have a little faith, add to it; and by-and-by we shall be prepared […]
Thoughts on Zion #37 – More Lessons From the United Orders’ Failure
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,” – George Santayana. Since we LDS may some day be building Zion communities, we might do well to learn from our Utah ancestors’ mistakes. Last time we suggested one such misstep was that the Saints moved too quickly from cooperatives to the United Order, […]