He retreated to a lonely room where he did some great mental struggling within himself. 218 University Press Building I also recall an incident that ties into the subject Id like to lead into in a minute. As a giant tide came in between the Pillars of Hercules, unable to resist the terrible temptation, he threw himself into the incoming tide and sank beneath the crestnever to rise again in this life. You have to have a lot of faith because each of you is someone special. Could it possibly be civilized to love myself above all? In my own studies of Elder Featherstones messages, which I love, I have found that, like anyone, he could extemporaneously misquote scripture badly and got various things wrong on occasion. Is there any doubt of their devotion . When he got into the new class, he said to his teacher, Well, what is a moron?, His teacher said, Well, Timmy, I guess a moron is someone who doesnt know quite as much about something as someone else., He said, Oh, Im in the right place then. He had had BYU and Utah State University and the University of Utah check it out. He said he had never seen or heard of it. A person nearby saw him and asked, Whats the matter? Ive-prayed-and-God-has-sent-me-to-you., The little girl went running to her mother and said, Mother, come quick. I remember the story of a famous artist who painted a beautiful portrait. I was heartsick. Collected copies of the white horse prophecy, circa 19021970, Church History Library. https://byui-media.ldscdn.org/byui_ft/devo_audio/15_10_2013_Devo.mp3. All those years that I took care of and supported my brothers and sisters, I had a health problem. Nobody knows who the Angel was and thats okay. Many among Montemayors audience have come away with the impression that Elder Featherstones letter received the official sanction of the Churchs leadership. I want to talk to him. Finally the bus driver opened the door, and the policeman went in to talk to the driver and the people on the bus. My teacher didnt look. The Savior said that of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only (Matthew24:36). Have you talked to her?, Yes, weve tried to talk her out of it many times., He said, Well, I hate to tell you this, but we told her that, if she would come to see you and talk to you, and if she still wanted to be excommunicated after she had the interview with you, wed let her be excommunicated., I answered, Thanks. Then I got humble inside and said, Of course Ill see her. We made an appointment, and I want to tell you that I came to that interview with a great deal of prayer and a very humble heart. In 1 Kings, chapter 3, we read, And Solomon said, Thou hast shewed unto thy servant David my father great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that . If anyone were to ask me the day and the hour of the Second Coming, Icould only answer that Ido not know. Then at the meeting he was just as nervous as he could possibly be until they finally called on him to speak. Iam called as one of the apostles to be aspecial witness of Christ in these exciting, trying times, and Ido not know when He is going to come again. Let me tell you just one other thing about Douglas Snarr, because I know that his ability to speak is a miracle. I believe my bishop, and hes a great man, and I believe in the stake presidency and the president of the First Council of the Seventy. And then one little gal came up, stood back and looked at me, and said, You know, you really dont have a big nose.. Enslen, To Any Who May Be Interested., 16. Youve put a time limit on the Lord. Emmawas born on October 18 1909, in Mammoth, Juab, Utah. Get personalized recommendations, and learn where to watch across hundreds of streaming providers. By Elder Vaughn J. Featherstone Of the First Quorum of the Seventy My beloved brothers and sisters, it has been my privilege through the past years as a stake president, a mission president, and a General Authority to serve as a common judge in modern Israel. Learn how . King Arthur didnt want to believe it, so he kept it submerged and wouldnt believe it. I love them, and they answer me with pain and torment. He reached down into the water and pulled a huge stone out. Then he came forward and went right on with the next chapter. I dont care what the problem is. Vaughn J. Featherstone | Beggar's Bread Home About Beggar's Bread Essential and Non-Essential Doctrines of the Christian Faith Moderation Policy Beggar's Bread Beggars sharing the bread that they've so freely and graciously received Stay updated via RSS Recent Posts The 10 Myths Mormons Believe About Christianity: Epilogue [Page 314]Importantly, when areworked version of AHaven in aWorld of Turmoil was published as part of his 1995 book,The Incomparable Christ, Featherstone modified the language to state simply, There are among our youth today who will be someday called to the holy apostleship. While his statement was still surrounded by descriptions of the Second Coming, he no longer emphasized his belief that those who would serve as the last prophet and apostles were already living. Anything in Elder Featherstones letter that is wrong, is simply that, wrong. I went back home that summer and, although there was a girl I was interested in [apparently the same little gal], I didnt go on one date. I think thats what happens when someone begins to have an inner beauty. He was granted emeritus status in 2001, and was called to be the president of the Logan Utah Temple from 2002 to 2005. I wanted to pray, but the words wouldnt come. Her father came to the door and said, What do you want, young man?, Douglas explained how he felt at the time: I tried to say what I wanted, but I couldnt. I think I learned the greatest lesson I have ever learned in my life that day. As I made my way back to my seat, no one wanted to look at me because they didnt want to embarrass me. If only the desire of it makes your aim strong enough never to tire of it; In our day we have many things that come into our lives that seem to be great obstacles and great handicaps. They talk about hard work and long hours. He also said, Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. Michelangelo said, If people knew how hard I work to get my mastery, it wouldnt seem so wonderful at all. And Paderewski said, A genius? Its just a rock that I found out in my stream here.. Jeremiah31:34, quoted in Hebrews8:11. There would be drunks and others lying on benches out in the park, but Id go out and put the newspaper over my arm while reading or talking to myself, with my arm moving back and forth under the paper with every syllablepracticing! Maybe their noses are bigger, or maybe their ears are a little bigger. I dont believe in a God like that. Then the little fellow said to him, Isnt there some kind of guff youdogive that Icantake?. He just cannot believe that anyone cant succeed if he wants to succeed. No food in the house, nothing. Vaughn J. Featherstone was second counselor of the Presiding Bishopric of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when this fireside address was given at Brigham Young University on 3 February 1974. Elder Vaughn J. Featherstone felt the blessings of the gospel deeply in his own life and dedicated himself to sharing those blessings with everyone around him. to me, or to our Table? One of President RussellM.Nelsons key messages to the Saints seems to be the significance of the Restoration leading to the Second Coming. Both Lund and McConkie, however, acknowledge the problems of assuming we can pinpoint when the Millennium would begin. It is totally wrong, and I cant imagine that they couldnt see that themselves. 10. I remember that on payday my mother would go over and stand against the mantel and look out the window up the street. That whole meeting just seemed to stop and wait until I moved, so I had to move. She has since joined and been through the temple, but then she wasnt even a member of the Church. The man who bought the farm from Ali Hafid went out to water his camel one day in the little stream that ran through the white sands of the farm. (This is the part I am embarrassed even to tell you.) Then I said, But you know, you need to develop a Job-like attitude. S.Umapathi Financial Advisor. Pray with all your strength for it; The Version table provides details related to the release that this issue/RFE will be addressed. They had all told him that the teacher was a quack, and that he really couldnt do anything, and that the course was just a waste of money. Enslen had only acquired this letter the week previous.9However, Enslen, who was serving in an Alabama stake presidency in 1983, recalled that he had heard Featherstone read this letter at ameeting in Alabama ashort time after the letters date.10We have no way of knowing whether Featherstone shared his letter with other general authorities, but its inclusion in the Church History Library does not imply it came with any official approval. Elder McConkie would not have said what he did, in is final inspired address, unless he believed he was correct, but he was familiar enough with church policy to know that it was not his place to declare his views as those of the Church, spoken in general conference. M.RussellBallard, When Shall These Things Be? BYU Devotional, March 12, 1996. President Lee said, The greatest test we have in this life is the loss of a loved one, and the greatest burden we carry [and I repeat for emphasis], thegreatestburden we carry, is sin. You may have a problem like that. At one time the bishop felt impressed to give me a blessing, and he promised me that I would have a man child, that he would be a priesthood holder, and that he would do a great service for the Church. 21. Most experienced readers know this. Anyway, the branch president invited me in, we talked for a while, and he said, Go out and send the taxi away. If life seems all empty and useless without it, It has been cross-posted with permission. He started in the Mountains of the Moon, and then he went down into Palestine, and finally over into Europe. Instead, he began working as a head trainer for Albertsons supermarket. Others can help us be attractive on the surface, and I think its important to look attractive. Im telling you because I hope that in some small way you will get the message that Im going to leave with you in this story. Vaughn Featherstone, is that you? Your parents were married in the temple, and so you are born in the covenant. It was found in a baking powder can wired to the handle of an old pump that offered the only hope of drinking water in a very long, seldom-used trail across the Armagosa Desert. One day a Buddhist priest came by Ali Hafids home, and together they sat by the fire. When I find somebody who isnt enthusiastic, I try to get within four or five feet of him so some of those wavelengths will carry right on through. Why, at that very instant God had been answering her prayer, but she didnt even know it. I remember it was Saturday, and I thought, Ive got to go to church. Not one of them looked at me. The video presents alast days timeline that places the Second Coming in the very near future. We dont know what we can really do for you, Doug, but I will tell you this: we can teach you how to live with the problem.. Unresolved: Release in which this issue/RFE will be addressed. You should be extremely wary of anyone who claims to be an exception to divine decree.27, Though Ihave questioned the significance VaughnJ.Featherstones letter should play into our sense of the nearness of last days events, that does not mean we dont have reason to prepare and enthusiastically look forward to the Lords return. No portion of this site may be reproduced without the express written consent of The Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research, Inc. Any opinions expressed, implied, or included in or with the goods and services offered by FAIR are solely those of FAIR and not those of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They found others who were artists and could see the shape of her face and its contours. When I was eighteen my mother died, and I had four younger brothers and sisters. That isnt so. Featherstone spoke on the importance of temple attendance in the last dispensation, when "Satan has unleashed every evil." He was also quoted as saying, "I believe we may well have living on the earth now, or very soon, the boy or babe who will be the prophet of the Church when the Savior comes. I didnt think the Lord would be pleased with my working, and we really didnt need both incomes, so I stopped working. Stephenwas born on June 9 1901, in American Fork, Utah, Utah, United States. Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. I know every bird in the forest. We now have more than 110,000 members of the Church in this area. He has been a general authority of the church since 1972. I can affirm the general correctness of this article from my own experience. All year long that teacher told me things I didnt know a thing about. But he also said, There are a lot of things I do know about. Elder JohnE.Enslen, To Any Who May Be Interested, (letter, February 15, 2010). I dashed over to church half an hour early, and it worked. Would you please do that?, I would look up at her, and Id say, Mother, why do I always have to go? He pulled up to a red light and waited. This is Douglas Snarrs business. I went through school that year, and then one day when I was sitting in a barber chair, I saw a little ad in the paper about a man back in Chicago who would guarantee speech correction in a course costing one thousand dollars. My goal is not to criticize ElderFeatherstone or to disparage sincere Latter-day Saints among them presumably this videos creator who like myself are eager to be present for our Saviors coming. M.RussellBallard made asimilar comment in his own BrighamYoung University devotional on March 12, 1996. I surely dont know as much as all those people in that other class. I am nobody. The competition is so keen here at BYU. I closed the door, went over and sat at the desk, and cried. The views and opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of FAIR, its officers, directors or supporters. Doug asked, Whats going on here?, The driver answered, I guess this guy doesnt like blacks. The taxi driver slowed down, and the bus went on down the street. It shines through and makes him beautiful from within and without. We started speaking slowly, but then we picked up pace. There are several copies on the internet. A bishop from a ward in a distant city came to see me one day and said, Weve got a woman in our ward who would like to be excommunicated., I said, All right. Cross-posted from Truth Will Prevail. They need to hear it.. Featherstone graduated from South High in Salt Lake City in 1949. You swim and swim and finally get there, but when you reach out to take hold of it he pulls it away from you again. 2. [Alan Jay Lerner,Camelot, 1.11.1137]. In 1972 he was called to the Presiding Bishopric, where he served for four years before being called as a general authority seventy and presiding over the Texas San Antonio Mission. For example, there are[Page 312]several copies of the White Horse Prophecy aprophecy traditionally credited to JosephSmith but denounced by the president of the Church, JosephF.Smith, at the October1918 General Conference on the website and many more at the archives.11To avoid anyones thinking the prophecy was legitimate, Church Historian (and future president of the Church) Joseph FieldingSmith marked copies donated to the archives with phrases like not true, not to be accepted, and not aword of truth in it.12This is an exception. I knew I couldnt for fear that someone would see my shoes. I think youre getting the message. So I think we ought to stop worrying and being concerned about those things. He came to a class, a very large class, and sat in the middle of the back row, where surely no one would call him to answer questions or do anything. You know, there are those few people who just seem to lift right up to the top, above everyone else, and you think, If only I had their talent. In this essay, Iexamine this document to understand its limitations for the argument Montemayor makes. On March 12, 2020, the video 7 Year Tribulation in the SEVENTH Seal TIMELINE was released on YouTube.1Six weeks later it had 375,000 views and had made the rounds on various Facebook groups, including one devoted to discussion among seminary teachers. Juli 2022 Iknow that the spirit of the Lord is brooding over the South. Each of us oftentimes thinks: I have problems. Then I also recall the Scotchman who bought his wife an X ray of his chest for their anniversary. Then, one Sunday about nine weeks later, I had a regression. If she needed braces, I guess they did this. The videos creator, Masayoshi Montemayor, makes his points largely through official Church sources, including the Churchs website, institute manuals, and conference reports. Resolved: Release in which this issue/RFE has been resolved. How to say Vaughn J Featherstone in English? Oh what ablessed generation you are and must be.2, Featherstone notes that in his own time the Church was facing great adversity. MS22631. A short time after that I went one day to see my sweet mother. Something went wrong. Iam not interested in refuting this idea, but it is based on aspeculative calculation of scripture rather than an independent revelation. Cant you ask one of the other kids? Then the pressure got more intense. Featherstone was born in Stockton, Tooele County, Utah. Whats the problem? The passengers agreed that the driver had been trying to force the black cabbie off the road. You can overcome the problem and someday youll speak as I am speaking. I started to cry because somebody had told me I didnt have to live with the problem I had. To add more books, click here . I felt like a freak. When you git watered up, fill the bottle and put it back like you found it for the next feller. Somebody else said, Nighttime demands from the overburdened soul the things that daylight denies.. It might be seven years, or fifteen years, or maybe not in this life. They were a pair of womens nurses shoes. BYU Speeches His family then settled in Salt Lake City when he was five. He decided he would try to find a speech correction school. Those of you who read this letter have witnessed the second coming of Christ, the day for which we have long awaited. (I should mention that we met in a little shabby roomgray, dull, dingyand one of the women who taught us was about the same age as the man and was blind.) I didnt know what to do, so I knelt down. Hermanos del sacerdocio, hermanas de la Sociedad de Socorro, el presidente Henry D. Moyle siempre recomendaba que cuando alguien habla deberamos sacar tres conclusiones de su mensaje. What if a short time later your health comes? When Montemayor speaks of Church headquarters, he is referring to the Church History Library, which does in fact house acopy of the letter. John E. Enslen, Journal Manuscript, January 25, 2010, in possession of author. According to Doctrine and Covenants77:7, the seven seals opened by the Lamb in Revelationchapter5 represent things relative to this earth during the seven thousand years of its continuance, or its temporal existence. If we are to understand these thousand-year periods as exact and literal, and we hold that the Savior was born on 1 CE, then it would reason that the Millennium was scheduled to begin at 2000 CE. People Projects Discussions . His parents divorced when he was growing up . He grew up in a home with an abusive alcoholic father. Dont go drinking up the water first. I heard a while ago of a contest to find the ugliest girl in America. It was too late; church was out; the building was all locked up. During that time I learned a great many tricks to avoid speaking. Proposition: Im a king, not a man. If only I had their skill. We wouldnt suppose that a king would have problems, but do you suppose that any physical ailment could be near the hurt of having the one you love most dearly on this earth be unfaithful to you? IMDb is the world's most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content. She didnt give up on us; she stuck with us. Strength and sagacity; faith, hope, and confidence, stern pertinacity; Then I decided that before I did that I had better be worthy. Were proud. Id have given anything, but they still wouldnt come. Its the end of the drought! This fellow was just a little incensed at this, and so he got out of his car, walked back to the Volkswagen and said, I dont take that kind of guff out of nobody. The door opened, and the other fellow started getting out, and he kept getting out and kept getting out, and when he was all the way out he was six feet five inches and 240 pounds. His name is Douglas Snarr. BYU Speeches Official items meant for members are approved by Correlation and have an approval date (like 6/2020) on them (and now we are seeing the new Christus symbol also). Find signed collectible books by 'Vaughn J Featherstone' The Aaronic priesthood and you. Then he stood about six inches in front of the bus. A man would become mighty, and a woman powerful. [FairMormon has received several questions about this recently, so we were pleased to see Interpreter publish this essay by Christopher J. Blythe. VaughnJ.Featherstone, The Incomparable Christ: Our Master and Model (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1995), 45. Be it sin or not sin, they betray me in their hearts, and thats far sin enough. He said, Your name is Douglas Snarr. You recall the scene where King Arthur finally, after many months, received reports and innuendos and whatever that Lancelot and King Arthurs wife, Guinevere, had had an affair and were having an affair at that time. I told a group of Aaronic Priesthood holders out in the congregation tonight, if they are pure in heart, they may . When I was invited to accept this assignment, I looked to it as a great honor and one to which hopefully I can contribute something. This was incorrect, since it was Michael, or Adam, that Elder McConkie is on record as teaching as the identity of this angel.
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