7/23/2017 - Section 53:1-7
July 23, 2017 Section 53:1-7 Gospel Changes, Converts, Missionary Changes, Growth, Draw Near Unto Me, Weaknesses To Overcome, Prayers Work, Labor for the Lord, Grow Better Grow Brighter Grow Stronger, Born Again, The historical background for this section is quite interesting to me. There is evidently little information about Algernon Sidney Gilbert before he was introduced to the gospel in 1830. But we know he was then the senior partner in the successful mercantile firm of Gilbert and Whitney in Kirtland. In this section we learn he was to be ordained an elder to (v3) “ preach faith and repentance and remission of sins…and the reception of the Holy Spirit by the laying on of hands.” In v 4 he is called to serve as a bishop’s agent. In section 57 we learn that as an agent he was to receive monies for the Church and to buy land. He was to assist Edward Partridge in managing the temporal affairs of the Church in Missouri. The other things we know from History of the Chur...