How the early Saints learned to sing

 

Prior to the first Church hymnal no one brought song books to Church. Since this was the case, how did the Saints learn to sing?

 

a.      Singing School

b.      Sunday School

c.       Public School

d.      The School of the Prophets

           

Yesterday’s answer:

(D)    That he would be given at least five more years of life.

 

Lucy Mack Smith, the Prophet’s mother, wrote of her son’s final instructions to the brethren in Kirtland: “One evening, before finishing his preparations for the contemplated journey [to Missouri], he sat in council with the brethren at our house. After giving them direction as to what he desired them to do, while he was absent from them, and, as he was about leaving the room, he said, ‘Well, brethren, I do not recollect anything more, but one thing, brethren, is certain, I shall see you again, let what will happen, for I have a promise of life five years, and they cannot kill me until that time is expired.’”

 

Joseph Smith’s Kirtland, Karl Ricks Anderson (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1989), 235.