3/23/2017 - Section 5:1-10
March 23, 2017 Section 5:1-10 Repentance Effect Of, Judge Not, Gifts of the Spirit, Martin Harris, Gift of Discernment, Charity Tolerance Love Insight, Conversion Process Of, Goals My , Martin Harris’ behavior surprises me. After breaking his covenant with Joseph Smith, showing the 116 pages to more people than the ones he had promised he would, thus loosing the pages—that he would come to Joseph with the request that he be allowed to see the gold plates. But upon my looking farther into this, I find that I am judging too harshly and am not forgiving. (For when I read v 1 and learned of Martin’s request to see the plates, I wanted to say, “No way, Martin! Not with your track record!” This is what I learned: John Widtsoe wrote: “Martin Harris was a religious minded, prosperous farmer. He appears to have been a rather willful but honest man, who wanted to be sure of everything he undertook.” From my difficult experiences with (1) Sister Evelyn on our mission in Japan and (2)...