So did Heber C. Kimball—he was tried to the core. I believe there are those even in the Church who would say in their hearts that the test of Abraham is too much; that a loving God would not require such a thing of any man, least of all someone as faithful as Abraham. Those who have such thoughts had better think again. Modern revelation indicates at least three times that each of us who seeks eternal life must one day be tried, even as Abraham.
Brown, when we were in Israel: Why was Abraham commanded to go up on that mountain traditionally Mount Moriah in Jerusalem and offer as a sacrifice his only hope for the promised posterity? Heber C. At the time of his baptism a voice had spoken to him, giving him some insight into his origins, his genealogy, and also whispering of things yet future. One thing he was told by the Spirit even then was that he and his wife would never be separated.
Filled with anxiety, Heber spent much of his nights pacing the floor. Finally, she in faith and desperate need went to her room and poured out her soul to God. How can I help my beloved? Heber, who had been supplicating the Father at the same time as she had, embraced her with comparable joy. Heber passed the test. Later the Prophet, in tears, took him and his wife Vilate upstairs in his own store and blessed them personally and sealed upon them blessings that only come to those who have come up through affliction.
Instead he saw his role, a difficult one, as putting his finger on the real need. Another example was recalled by a man named Jesse Crosby, who one day accompanied a woman on a visit to the Prophet. She felt she had been maligned unjustly by gossip. But this sister had been troubled, and she came and asked for redress: she wanted the Prophet now to go to the person who was the source of the story and properly take care of it.
And there wells up in me a forgiveness of the person who has told that story, and a resolve that I will never do that thing again. One of the great qualities of the Prophet Joseph, not always characteristic of others, is that when he was wrong he acknowledged it.
The Lord rebuked him several times. Those revelations are published alongside the revelations in which he is given promises and blessings. Parley P. Pratt records a time when he was much troubled because of a severe censure from a Church leader that he felt was unjustified.
He came to the Prophet and laid it on him. There are listeners who are weak as water, not listening at all, not hearing, not interpreting from the center self. Joseph listened powerfully.
And to Elder Pratt he now listened sympathetically. Joseph may have learned that principle from the inspiration of his retranslation of the Sermon on the Mount. There are verses there that clearly have to do with forgiving, with going the second mile—some of them specially directed to the Twelve. They were told not to appeal to law, not to exact their just due, even if in fact it was just. They were to get on with the work of the ministry. There are those of us who seem to think that our calling is to draw a line and then spend our lives seeing that no one steps over it.
Not so. Not a disciple of Christ. I was anxious to learn from Joseph and the spirit of God. Now Brigham Young has been criticized as a temporally minded man, a money-minded man—even, some have said, an autocrat. Well, he had a capacity for earning and for spending, and he was a man who understood basic principles of economics.
But the Prophet Joseph well knew that. He knew that when Brigham consecrated his efforts, far from that being a weakness to be blindly condemned, it would be, in the hands of the Lord, a blessing.
I treasured up the things of God, and this is the key that I hold today. Brigham Young never claimed he was a great leader independent of Joseph Smith. Much of what he knew about how to command a body of men in the spirit of Israel he learned firsthand and in that laboratory with Joseph Smith. In sum, then, Joseph Smith was, whatever his natural gifts, supernaturally blessed to teach, to speak, and to counsel. This was a major component in his unusual power. I am the only man in the world whom it would be safe to trust with it.
All rights reserved. For personal, educational use only. No part of this work may be reproduced in any form or by any means outside of your personal digital device without permission in writing from Deseret Book Company at permissions deseretbook. It was also interpreted to require carrying the gospel abroad see journal of Jonathan H. Hale, p. Joseph took all the male portion of our family into the. At that time I was on the farm a short distance from the place where the meeting was held, and my children being anxious that I should enjoy the meeting, sent a messenger in great haste for me.
I went without delay, and shared with the rest, the most glorious out-pouring of the Spirit of God that had ever before taken place in the Church. We felt that we had gained a decided victory over the adversary. Once the Prophet was pacing back and forth in the hallway of his home. Two of his sons were imitating him, trying to take steps as long as his, and often stumbling and scuffling. The Prophet was apparently unaware, or in any case unperturbed.
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