Friday, December 3, 2010

Gathering The Poor - The Perpetual Emigration Fund - Ingratitude. delivered in the tabernacle at General Conference, October 6, 1853 pg 322-237

-the Perpetual Emigration Fund was a process of loaning (?) to enable the poorer Saints to emigrate to Utah
-you have been helped and in turn you ought to help others
-remember what it was like when you were in trouble or a bad situation and now help others out of their trouble and bad situations
"If you can remember your own feelings then [when first learning about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints], you can know how others feel, you can realize how thousands... feel at this present moment. There is no hardship they would refuse to undergo,... if they could assemble with us here today." pg 323
"If you started on your journey with the influence of the Spirit warming your hearts, who prevented you from retaining it every day of your life? You may say it was the devil that robbed you of it. But what business had you with the devil?" pg 323
-if you get tempted you don't need to submit to it
"My advice to you is, go and be baptized for the remission of sins, and start afresh, that the temptation may not overcome you again; pause and reflect, that you be not overcome by the evil one unawares." pg 324
"When the Lord Almighty opens the vision of a person's mind, He shows him the things of the Spirit - things that will be." pg 324
-don't be ungrateful, if someone has helped you out of bad circumstances, be grateful and gracious to them.
-always be grateful