My wife
tells me I’m a week late on the Christmas stories. If this blog was up to my
youngest daughter, you would be getting Christmas stories from the 1st
of November. Anyways, this next week will be devoted to Christmas.
A favorite
past time for many families living in northern Utah is to visit the lights at
Temple Square during the Christmas season. My family has done it on a number of
occasions and when we do, I’m impressed by both the beauty, but more especially
by the number of people with the same idea as ours. It’s incredible the number
of people that squeeze into Temple Square to enjoy the lights. The first such
occasion when lights were brought to Temple Square was during December of 1965.
It was thought that the Church had to do more to share its beliefs during the
Christmas season. But it almost didn’t happen—Why?
A. The idea was proposed too late to
actually get the lights up
B. The head gardener believed the lights
would harm the trees
C. The First Presidency almost backed
out of the idea when told the estimate cost of the power bill
D. President David O. McKay stated,
“This isn’t Vegas.”
Yesterday’s answer:
1.
C. During the 1930’s
2.
A. After the death of Joseph
Smith, when it seemed as if every trouble and calamity had come upon the
Saints, Brigham Young, who was president of the Twelve, then the presiding
quorum of the Church, sought the Lord to know what they should do and where
they should lead the people for safety, and while they were fasting and praying
daily on this subject, President Young had a vision of Joseph Smith, who showed
him the mountain that we now call Ensign Peak, immediately north of Salt Lake
City, and there was an ensign fell upon that peak, and Joseph said, “Build
under the point where the colors fall and you will prosper and have peace.”
Journal of Discourses 13:85-86.
3.
A. The full temple
ceremony developed gradually, and the Kirtland Temple is referred to in LDS
history as the “Elias of temples,” a forerunner to later temples.
Gilbert
W. Scharffs, Mormons and Masons (Orem,
Utah: Millennial Press, 2006), 6.
4.
D. 50%
In 1857, United State President James
Buchanan sent 2,500 troops, about one-half of the U. S. Army . . .
Gilbert W. Scharffs, Mormons and Masons (Orem, Utah:
Millennial Press, 2006), 32.
5.
C.
Magic shows
In nearly all cities or towns of an
extensive population there are certain vices, or crimes, not exactly tolerated
by law, but yet, borne with by the people as a kind of unavoidable or necessary
evil: such, for instance, as gambling, drunkenness, vain and wicked amusements
and allurements, directly calculated to corrupt the morals of the people and
lead them from the paths of virtue and truth. Among the most conspicuous and
fashionable of these we might mention, balls, dances, corrupt and immodest
theatrical exhibitions, magical performances, etc.
History of the Church 2:282
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