Latter Day Light DAILY DEVOTIONAL July 19, 2016 Those Who Have Gone Before Us
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SCRIPTURE OF THE DAY Isaiah 2:2-3
"And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem." |
QUOTE OF THE DAYGordon B. Hinckley
"With so great an inheritance, we can do no less than our very best. Those who have gone before expect this of us. We have a mandate from the Lord. We have a vision of our cause and purpose. . . . Our forebears laid a solid and marvelous foundation. Now ours is the great opportunity to build a superstructure, all fitly framed together with Christ as the chief cornerstone" ("True to the Faith," Ensign, May 1997). |
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Alma 32:28 - 33:1
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TODAY IN CHURCH HISTORY July 19
1835 - The Prophet Joseph spent much of the month of July in the translation of the Book of Abraham.
1847 - From the top of Big Mountain, Orson Pratt and John Brown become the first Latter-day Saint Pioneers to see the valley of the Great Salt Lake in the distance. They had ridden ahead of their camp and climbed up the high mountain to see what lay ahead. They saw the first stretch of flat prairie they had seen since entering the mountain country. Fifteen wagons stayed with a recovering Brigham Young, while forty wagons, under the direction of Willard Richards and George A. Smith, went ahead with instructions to plant crops as soon as they arrived at a suitable place in the valley ahead.
1876 - Joseph Fielding Smith, Jr., Tenth President of the Church, is born in Salt Lake City, Utah.
1909 - President Joseph F. Smith arrives in Europe to visit with the Saints. The annual Netherlands Mission conference in Rotterdam becomes the largest gathering of Saints to a Church meeting outside the Stakes of Zion in the history of the Church.
1997 - Some three million hours of community service are contributed Church wide as part of the Pioneer Sesquicentennial celebration's Worldwide Pioneer Heritage Service Day.
2007 - Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from two cities in the metro Denver area (Arapahoe and Aurora) were honored on a national level with the receipt of the 2007 Take Pride in America Award. The City of Aurora nominated the Church for this recognition based on the service rendered by more than a thousand volunteers at the Aurora Reservoir during last summer's Colorado Cares Day.
2009 - The Mormon Tabernacle Choir's "Music and the Spoken Word" celebrates 80 years of live continuous network broadcasting on their regular Sunday program. The choir opened its first broadcast on July 15, 1929 and is now carried on more than 2,000 radio, TV, cable and satellite stations, as well as on the internet.
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