Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow: One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsSnow, Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey)
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Biography and Family Record of Lorenzo Snow: One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Snow, Eliza R. (Eliza Roxey)
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Snow family; Snow, Lorenzo, 1814-1901
With a people of one heart and mind, possessed of the same feelings and
aspirations as we were when we first embraced the Gospel, in connection
with our present knowledge and experience in the practical workings of
building up the kingdom, how easy it would be to establish our home
industries or mercantile institutions, and carry them on successfully.
Every one would be on hand, like Israel when in the desert, and
journeying to the land of Canaan, they were required to build a
movable tabernacle for certain sacred purposes, and the people brought
their offerings, etc., even more than were sufficient, and Moses had
to cry out to the people to stop. So it could be with us, as far as
willingness on the part of the people was concerned to take an active
part in any general movement that might be projected. Whatever means or
time or property might be devoted by the community for the establishing
of any certain enterprise, would be done in good faith, for every heart
would be inspired with confidence, every one considering his interest
identified with that of the whole.
But it takes time to get the people into this condition. Here, in this
southern country, we understand that the people have been endeavoring
to work together in the United Order, meeting with more or less
disappointment. Because of reverses or failures in our attempts to
successfully operate in our temporal affairs, we should not allow such
disappointment to detract from the principle itself, but rather let us
attribute our misfortunes to human weakness, regarding the principle
as divine, revealed for our special benefit and blessing, and in every
instance of apparent failure, let us be resolved to "try again."
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