| | Latter Day Light DAILY DEVOTIONAL February 4, 2017 Perilous Times |
SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY 2 Timothy 3:1-5
"This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away."
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QUOTE OF THE DAY Joseph F. Smith
"We hear about living in perilous times. We are in perilous times, but I do not feel the pangs of that terror. It is not upon me. I propose to live so that it will not rest upon me. I propose to live so that I shall be immune from the perils of the world, if it be possible for me to so live, by obedience to the commandments of God and to his laws revealed for my guidance" (Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph F. Smith, p. 393-394). |
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TODAY IN CHURCH HISTORY February 4
1831 - The Prophet Joseph Smith receives Doctrine and Covenants 41, which calls Edward Partridge as the first bishop of the Church and prepares the members for the "law" of the Church that would shortly be given to them.
1841 - The Nauvoo Legion was organized during a meeting held in Nauvoo, Illinois. Joseph Smith was elected Lieutenant-general of the Legion, with John C. Bennett, Major-general. Wilson Law was elected Brigadier-general and Don Carlos Smith Brigadier-general. Other officers were appointed by the Lieutenant-general and the Legion was composed of six companies.
1846 - The first wagons of the Charles Shumway family crossed the Mississippi River, thus beginning the great Mormon Exodus from Nauvoo to the Salt Lake Valley. After crossing on ferries, they broke a trail westward traveling nine miles to the banks of Sugar Creek to await the arrival of Brigham Young. Also, the ship Brooklyn, under the leadership of Samuel Brannan, left New York with 238 Saints on board bound for California. Ten Saints would loose their life on this six month voyage around the southern tip of South America to the San Francisco Bay.
1851 - The State of Deseret passes an ordinance that incorporates The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
1902 - The First Presidency announces the policy that full-time missionaries need not pay tithing.
1996 - The Honaira Branch, the first branch of the Church in the Solomon Islands is organized.
2005 - The First Presidency presents a check for $1 million to Marsha J. Evans, the President of the American Red Cross, to be used for the Measles Initiative vaccination program to fight measles in Africa. The donation was a second part of a $3 million, 3-year commitment by the Church. In recognition of the Church's support, the Red Cross presented its highest honor for donors, the American Red Cross Circle of Humanitarians award, to the Church.
2007 - Elder John Pingree, an Area Seventy, addressed a gathering of Latter-day Saints who are deaf at the Conference Center Little Theater who had gathered in conjunction with the Winter Deaflympics being held in Utah. Two members of the Church, Justin Anderson of the Deaflympics Committee and Cherrie Hodson an assistant to the Deaflympics Committee, also spoke. |
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