Now, as I have said, a moment’s reflection ought to satisfy everybody that this is the true course for us to pursue; that if we intend to build up the Zion of God and to become a great people, it is essential that we should concentrate our means in one channel; that we should sustain […]
Monthly Archives: June 2016
123. What Building Zion Requires of Us, Wilford Woodruff, 1867
We can see that the people of the world are becoming more and more divided every day, and the evils resulting therefrom are everywhere apparent. We are called to build up Zion, and we cannot build it up unless we are united; and in that union we have got to carry out the commandments of […]
121. What Building Zion Requires of Us, Wilford Woodruff, 1867
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. – Wilford Woodruff, 4/7/1867
119. Zion Prophesied, Brigham Young, 1864
Here is our reporter, brother George D. Watt, the first man baptized in England by President Heber C. Kimball during his first mission to that land, is a witness that the gift of prophecy is enjoyed by this people. Soon after his baptism in England he prophesied that God would build up a Zion in […]
Thoughts on Zion #40 – Modern Israel Overcome by Babylon The Great
Over the last 16 installments, we have reviewed the history of the LDS Church’s efforts to build a real, live Zion society in the Territory of Utah. Much was accomplished in their 40 year effort to establish a Zion society based on cooperative free enterprise in the Rocky Mountain west. This effort was the direct […]