7/24/2017 - Section 54:1-10
July 24, 2017 Section 54:1-10 Law of Consecration, United Order, Living with Imperfect People, Obedience Brings Blessings Beyond Our Imaginations, Patient in Tribulations, Trials, Banish Selfishness, Seek the Lord Early, Reliance on the Lord Always, Journal, Once again, very interesting background related to this section. The saints in New York were, as the Lord commanded, moving to Ohio. The Colesville Branch arrived as a group. Their coming was expected. The saints then living in Ohio were commanded to prepare for “the influx of newcomers” by giving part of the land they owned to those who were arriving. Nobody knows exactly what caused the problem, but B.H. Roberts recorded: “it is difficult to determine with exactness in what the transgressions of the Saints at Thompson consisted; but it is evident the selfishness and rebellion were at the bottom of their trouble, and that Leman Copley [who was giving the land in Ohio] and Ezra Thayre [who was the Branch President of the C...