The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 83: February 24, 1921 (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 83: February 24, 1921 (Classic Reprint) written by George Albert Smith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 83: February 24, 1921 The question has been asked: 'why would the Lord create worlds only in order to destroy them again and remodel or form other worlds from them The Lord said: And for my own purpose have I made these things! Just for the purpose indicated; some worlds are prepared to produce certain kinds of materials, they need not be necessarily inhabited, such as granite, marble, coal, iron, silver, gold, etc., to suit the needs, which the Creator foreknew would be essential to the inhabitants for whom the planet was designed. For instance, coal has always existed, previous to its discovery, though men did not know how to use it as they do now. And they used wood for fuel. Brigham Young tells us that it took him three days to gather a wagon load of wood and carry it down from the mountains to supply fuel for his family. Some of the brethren said, 'vhat shall we do when the wood is all used up? Well the Lord so ordained inventions by which the discovery and use of coal was brought about, and the extensive coal regions in Utah, as elsewhere, were explored and developed. Now we come to the question, How long did it take to organize this world of ours? Moses' story of the creation tells us: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is. In the book of Abraham we read: And the Lord said unto me, by the Urim and Thummim, that Kolob was after the manner of the Lord, according to its times and seasons in the revolutions thereof; that one revolution was a day unto the Lord, after his manner of reckoning, it being one thousand years according to the time appointed unto that whereon thou standest. This is the reckoning of the Lord's time, according to the reckoning of Kolob (book of Abraham, Pearl of Great Price 3. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.