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The Latter Day Saints' Millennial Star 91, no. 21 (23 May 1929)
Widtsoe, John A.
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Book of Mormon Studies (23 May 1929)
Title
Book of Mormon Studies (23 May 1929)
Magazine
The Latter Day Saints' Millennial Star
Publication Type
Magazine Article
Year of Publication
1929
Editors
Widtsoe, John A. (Secondary)
Pagination
325–326
Date Published
23 May 1929
Volume
91
Issue Number
21
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Abstract
This is a series of articles intended for Relief Society course study. It discusses the importance of the Book of Mormon, its coming forth (i.e., the translation, the witnesses, the publication, Joseph Smith), brief overview of its contents, and explains the text from 1 Nephi 1 through Alma 58. Each article features several questions that are helpful in synthesizing and applying the Book of Mormon to daily life.
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RELIEF SOCIETY
BOOK OF MORMON STUDIES
For the first lesson in June
The "words contained in these chapters—Third Nephi, chapters 15 to 22—are words of truth and life that give joy to the souls of honest men. In reading this account "who can fail to see mentally the great love and compassion and mercy of the Christ? Who cannot visualize the multitude in tears? Who cannot in a weak human way feel the deep sorrow of the Christ for the weakness and wickedness of the people, for whose sins He groaned within Himself?
One picture alone, however, more than justifies the existence of the Book of Mormon—that of Jesus blessing the children of the Nephites while angels from heaven encircled them.
Can you not appreciate the helplessness of the writer when words failed him and he uttered: “The eye hath never seen, neither hath the ear heard, before, so great and marvelous things as we saw and heard Jesus speak unto the Father; And no tongue can speak, neither can there be written by any man, neither can the hearts of men conceive so great and marvelous things as we both saw and heard Jesus speak; and no one can conceive of the joy which filled our souls at the time we heard him pray for us unto the Father.”
Even weak humans may experience inexpressible joy. What language of earth then could convey the communion of God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ?
QUESTIONS
- Why was the Saviour able to tell more to the people of Nephi than He was to the people on the Eastern hemisphere? Who were the “other sheep” referred to by Him?
- Why was the Gospel to be taken from them? Discuss this in connection with Third Nephi 16:9-10.
- To whom was the Sacrament administered by the Saviour and His Disciples? Can Priests righteously partake of the Sacrament for the people? Why must each individual covenant in this respect with the Lord Himself?
- How did the works of the Saviour on the Western continent compare with those in the East? Why was he able to do more?
- The coming forth of the sacred record is forshadowed in chapter twenty-one. Discuss it, and the conditions under which it was to come forth.
- How do the frequent Biblical quotations in the Book of Mormon corroborate both the Bible and the Book of Mormon?
R.L.E.
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Subject Keywords
Testimony
Book of Mormon
Study Helps
Book of Mormon Translation
Smith, Joseph, Jr.
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