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(10/6/03)
"'Cursed is the ground for thy sake' was the Divine fiat to the first
man. In contrast, note the assurance given to Israel that by
faithfulness the seasons should be made propitious, that nurturing
rains should come, bringing such harvests that the people would lack
room to store their products. (See Malachi
3:8-12)." -- James E. Talmage, "General Conference Reports,"
April 1924, p. 50
(10/9/03)
"As long as the people faithfully complied with the law of the tithe
they prospered; and when they failed the land was no longer sanctified
to their good. Hezekiah (2
Chron. 31: 5-10) and Nehemiah (Neh.
13:10-13) reproved the people for their negligence in the matter
and awakened them to the jeopardy that threatened; and, later, Malachi
voiced the Word of Jehovah in stern rebuke, forceful admonition, and
encouraging promise, relative to the payment of the Lord's tenth..."
-- James E. Talmage, "The Vitality of Mormonism," [Boston: The
Gorham Press, 1919], p. 206
6/22/04
"The Lord deals with individuals; and salvation is an individual
affair; but, nevertheless, he deals also with nations. for he is the
God of nations, which are set up or put down, are preserved or
destroyed, according to their fitness; and all this is done in the
Lord's due time and way. 'Blessed is the nation whose God is the
Lord,' sang the psalmist. 'Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is
a reproach to any people,' declared the author of the book of
Proverbs." - James E. Talmage, "Conference Report," October 1923,
p. 52
(9/13/05)
"I sometimes think we pay a little
undue attention to technicalities, and to questions that cannot be
fully answered with respect to the Book of Mormon. It matters not to
me just where this city or that camp was located. I have met a few
of our Book of Mormon students who claim to be able to put a finger
upon the map and indicate every land and city mentioned in the Book
of Mormon. The fact is, the Book of Mormon does not give us precise
and definite information whereby we can locate those places with
certainty. I encourage and recommend all possible investigation,
comparison and research in this matter. The more thinkers,
investigators, workers we have in the field the better; but our
brethren who devote themselves to that kind of research should
remember that they must speak with caution and not declare as
demonstrated truths points that are not really proved. There is
enough truth in the Book of Mormon to occupy you and me for the rest
of our lives, without our giving too much time and attention to
these datable
matters." - James E. Talmage, "Conference Report," April 1929,
Afternoon Meeting p. 44
7/16/09
“The idols that
man makes and which he sets up and worships are the workmanship of his
hands or mind. The God of our spirits, verily the Father of our
spirits, is no God of man's creation. He created us, and calls upon us
to worship him and to obey his commandments. Israel was a peculiar
people of old, and has remained a peculiar people both in the gathered
and in the scattered condition, and that was one of the signs by which
they were distinguished from their heathen, pagan, idolatrous
contemporaries, and by which they are distinguished from their
heathen, pagan, idolatrous contemporaries today. For, mark you,
idolatry never was more rife, and paganism was never more widespread
than in this very year of our Lord, 1923. Men may not now put their
golden idols or their images of silver, or brass, or iron, or wood, or
stone, always up upon pedestals, and physically kneel down before them
and worship them. Gold need not always be cast in the form of a calf
after the pattern of Apis to be verily the god of man.” -
James E. Talmage, “Conference Report,” April 1923,
Closing Session, p. 141
3/23/12
Not until the
gospel was restored in the 19th century, with its ancient powers and
privileges, was the holy priesthood manifest again among men. And be it
remembered that the authority to speak and act in the name of God is
essential to a temple, and a temple is void without the sacred authority
of the holy priesthood. Through Joseph Smith, the gospel of old was
restored to earth, and the ancient law was reestablished. In course of
time, through the ministry of the Prophet, The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints was organized and established by manifestations of
divine power. - James E. Talmage, "A
History of Temples," Ensign, October 2010
11/11/12
The faith that God is concerned
with the affairs of men has been a source of comfort and strength to
the generations of mankind. It has assured puny man, infinitely small
as he appears in the midst of universal vastness, that he is under the
watch-care of his Heavenly Father. This faith has inspired him to
mighty works, and has given him courage to meet the diverse issues of
life. Without this faith, man could live only a faltering, doubting
life. With it, certainty and gladness enter the heart, as in the words
of David, "He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me
beside the still waters." - James Talmage, "An Understandable
Religion," p. 42
9/9/14
This
Church was not formed on man’s initiative, it was not called into
being because of some brilliant leader who stepped forward with a
new plan; and therefore we cannot, we have not the power nor the
authority, to make any kind of affiliation with any other church;
and let me say with equal earnestness, no other denomination, no
church, no sect can ever affiliate as such with this, the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. There have been overtures made by
some religious bodies to find out the terms under which they
probably could come in with us; and the answer has been: Come in as
every member of this Church has come in—through … the door of
baptism, that ye may receive the Holy Ghost by the laying on of
hands. - James Talmage,
Conference Report, April 1920, page 104
8/27/15
The
impress of great truths, caught ofttimes by a momentary flash of
heavenly light, are held in store within the hidden recesses of the
mind, forgotten, perhaps, for years. Then at a moment of crucial
test or painful trial, in the time of distress and affliction, the
active reagent compounded in the laboratory of memory and sensitized
by the elixir of inspiration is applied, and the picture of the past
is brought to light, attesting the truth in a way that none may
gainsay or deny. - James E.
Talmage, "The Parables of James E. Talmage," p. 17
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