President Gordon B. Hinckley on the Book of Mormon

"I take in my hand the Book of Mormon. I read its words. I have read Joseph Smith's explanation of how it came to be. To the unbelieving it is a story difficult to accept, and critics for generations have worn out their lives writing books intended to refute that story and to offer other explanations than the one given by Joseph the Prophet. But to the open-minded, this critical writing has only stimulated them to dig deeper; and the more deeply they dig, the greater the accumulation of evidence for the validity of Joseph Smith's story. Still, as has been demonstrated for a hundred and fifty years, the truth of the Book of Mormon will not be determined by literary analysis or by scientific research, although these continue to be reassuring. The truth about the origins of the Book of Mormon will be determined today and tomorrow, as it has been throughout the yesterdays, by reading the book in a spirit of reverence and respect and prayer."
(Praise to the Man, Ensign, Aug 1983, 4)

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Day 21 - 2 Nephi 15-18

"Wo unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope." Though the focus is more on the rope, or the chains that bind, here I think of the following drawling.Too often we make life harder than it has to be. Though more often we unload the burden of sin before the Savior, and walk out without restraint, but when we take his yolk upon us, the journey is pleasant to bear.

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