We have come here to build up Zion. How shall we do it? I could tell you how if I had time. I have told you a great many times. There is one thing I will say in regard to it. We have got to be united in our efforts. We should go to work […]
Monthly Archives: February 2018
298. What Zion is and is not – George Q. Cannon quote, 1869
It has been seen by thinking men that there is something radically wrong in the organization of society in this respect, but they have not known how to remedy the evils. It is so in the religious world. Religionists have to mourn and deplore the divisions that exist among the so-called followers of Christ; and […]
297. Central to The Gospel – John Taylor quote, 1883
If you will give me your attention and your faith and prayers I will endeavor to address you. It always affords me pleasure to meet with the Saints of God. In company with my brethren we have been traveling up and down lately, associating with the Saints in the different conferences, trying to speak of […]
296. Building Zion Requires Real Labor – Wilford Woodruff quote, 1873
We are not called to build up Zion by preaching, singing and praying alone; we have to perform hard labor, labor of bone and sinew, in building towns, cities, villages; and we have to continue to do this; but while we are so engaged, we should not sin. We have no right to sin, whether […]
294. We are obligated to build Zion – Brigham Young quote, 1857
If they will let us alone, we will preach the Gospel; and if they do not, we will do it, and we will build up Zion, if all the devils in hell howl. Let us know that we have to build up Zion until the Spirit of peace shall overrule our country. – Brigham Young, […]
293. Early Utahns Were Building Zion – John Taylor quote, 1882
And as we are here for the purpose of building up Zion, He [God] expects that we will be upright and honorable in all our dealings with one another and with all men. – John Taylor, 4/9/1882
Thoughts on Zion #60 – We Must Overcome Babylon’s Traditions
Early LDS leaders taught that the Saints had brought Babylon’s follies with them to Utah and that, in order to build the prophesied latter-day Zion, those traditions had to be replaced. In June of 1877, Apostle Erastus Snow stated, “Now the Latter-day Saints are gathering from all nations and tongues, with divers customs and habits […]
292. What Building Zion Requires of Us – 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 […]