Hyrum said, “This is the place”

Hyrum Smith

During a blessing of healing given to Lorenzo Young in Kirtland, Ohio in 1836, Hyrum stated the end destination of the Saints would be where?

 a.      Vancouver Island in Canada

b.      Russia

c.       The Rocky Mountains

d.      Mexico

Yesterday’s answer:

 C)   To leave a monument of the Saints virtue and industry

As the Latter-day Saints made final preparations to leave the city, many asked “Why?” Parley P. Pratt addressed that persistent question:

“The great amount of expense and labor we have been at to purchase lands, build houses, the temple, etc., we might ask, why is it that we have been at all this outlay and expense, and then are called to leave it? [The Lord] would answer that the people of God always were required to make sacrifices, and if we have a sacrifice to make, He is in favor of its being something worthy of the people of God. We do not want to leave a desolate place, to be a reproach to us, but something that will be a monument of our industry and virtue. Our houses, our farms, this temple, and all we leave will be a monument to those who may visit the place of our industry, diligence, and virtue. There is no sacrifice required at the hands of the people of God but shall be rewarded to them an hundred fold, in time or eternity.”

History of the Saints, Harley, William G., ed. (American Fork, Utah: Covenant Communications, 2012), 11.