Gems of Reminiscence: Seventeenth Book of the Faith Promoting Series, Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints
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Gems of Reminiscence: Seventeenth Book of the Faith Promoting Series, Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day Saints
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Missions
When I was a boy, playing upon the floor in a Relief society
meeting,--my mother being the president of a Relief society, (I grew
up in the Relief society, and I have often said I am entitled to be
a member, a charter member almost)--in that meeting I heard Grandma
Whitney sing some of the most beautiful songs I have ever listened to,
and they were all sung in an unknown tongue. After she finished Sister
Eliza R. Snow (who wrote the famous "Mormon" hymn, "O My Father,"
which refers to our heavenly mother) gave a blessing to each of those
present. I heard President Smith say that he attended a concert given
by our Tabernacle choir at the World's fair, in Chicago; and one of the
songs, "O My Father," was sung by Robert C. Easton. When it came to the
part, "Truth is reason, truth eternal, Tells me I've a mother there," a
man sitting by, said, "I have believed that all my life, but I daren't
say so." Well, we dare say it and have said it all over the world. The
sister who, by the inspiration of the Spirit of God, wrote that hymn,
gave to each one of the good sisters in that Relief society meeting a
blessing. Zina D. Young gave the interpretation. After this blessing
had been given to each of the good sisters, Sister Snow turned to the
child on the floor and gave him a blessing, and Aunt Zina interpreted
it, and the blessing was a prediction that I should live to occupy the
position that I am occupying here today as one of the leaders in the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I am the recipient of a
blessing predicted by the gift of tongues and fulfilled twenty years
afterward. I could go on and relate incident after incident of a like
character.
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