This Church has continued to rise. It is the only true church upon the face of the whole earth. Its history is before the world. It has continued to grow and increase from the day it was organized until the present time. This is the Zion of God. We see an embryo of it in […]
Wilford Woodruff
199. What Building Zion Requires of Us, Wilford Woodruff, 1874
…faith is required on the part of the Saints to live their religion, do their duty, walk uprightly before the Lord and build up his Zion on the earth. Then it requires works to correspond with our faith. – Wilford Woodruff, 10/9/1874
191. What Building Zion Requires of Us, Wilford Woodruff, 1870
This is one thing I want to say to my friends and to the Saints of God, that without the Holy Ghost, without direct revelation and the inspiration of God continually, Brigham Young could not lead this people twenty-four hours. He could not lead them at all. Joseph could not have done it, neither could […]
187. What Building Zion Requires of Us, Wilford Woodruff, 1870
The Lord has put into our hands the power to build up this great Zion, which all the ancient prophets rejoiced in and prophesied about. What manner of people ought we to be who are called to carry out this work? We ought to be the Saints and children of God in very deed. Our […]
173. Zion Prophesied, Wilford Woodruff, 1870
The Lord has put into our hands the power to build up this great Zion, which all the ancient prophets rejoiced in and prophesied about. – Wilford Woodruff, 5/6/1870
165. Zion Prophesied, Wilford Woodruff, 1869
The words contained in the 7th verse of the 52nd chapter of the prophecies of Isaiah are brought to my mind. While contemplating the great work of building up the Zion of God in the last days, he says—“How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; […]
142. Economic Unity, Wilford Woodruff, 1870
We are the only people under heaven who are one, and we are not half as much one as we ought to be; we have to improve. We are the only people in the whole Christian world who make any pretensions to oneness in building up the Zion of God on the earth. We profess […]
139. What Building Zion Requires of Us, Wilford Woodruff, 1867
I know the world oppose us because we are united; they say we are governed by one man. I would to God that all Israel would obey the voice of one man as the heavens obey the voice of God. Then we would have power to build up Zion and to obtain all things necessary […]
131. Economic Unity, Wilford Woodruff, 1867
We are one of heart and mind, as it regards faith, repentance, baptism, or the first principles of the gospel of Jesus Christ; but the same unity must exist in our midst in all our temporal labors—in building temples, tabernacles, cities, towns, villages, canals, cultivating the earth, or any other labor, if we ever accomplish […]
130. What Building Zion Requires of Us, Wilford Woodruff, 1867
This little mustard seed here around this bowery, which has sprung up in the valleys of the mountains, has either got to grow and progress and become a great tree, in whose branches the fowls of the air can lodge, or it must stop growing altogether. We have either to build up Zion in its […]
127. Zion Prophesied, Wilford Woodruff, 1865
Said he, “Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.” What do you see, Isaiah, that should cause you to break forth in such language as this? I see what the Gods of eternity […]
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
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 […]
Apostle Woodruff Said Saints to be “Removed” if they Don’t Build Zion.
One hundred forty-two years ago tomorrow, Apostle Wilford Woodruff gave a talk in Salt Lake City outlining our duty as Latter-Day Saints to build Zion and the consequences for us if we don’t. Below are five quotes from that talk along with a summary of the points made in each. 1. “The Lord has put […]