Interlude
"Safety For The Soul"
[Jeffrey R. Holland]
When Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum started for Carthage to face what they knew would be an imminent martyrdom, Hyrum read these words to comfort the heart of his brother:
“Thou hast been faithful; wherefore … thou shalt be made strong, even unto the sitting down in the place which I have prepared in the mansions of my Father
A few short verses from the 12th chapter of Ether in the Book of Mormon. Before closing the book, Hyrum turned down the corner of the page from which he had read, marking it as part of the everlasting testimony for which these two brothers were about to die. I hold in my hand that book, the very copy from which Hyrum read, the same corner of the page turned down, still visible. Later, when actually incarcerated in the jail, Joseph the Prophet bore a powerful testimony of the divine authenticity of the Book of Mormon. Shortly thereafter pistol and ball would take the lives of these two testators
In this their greatest—and last—hour of need, I ask you: would these men blaspheme before God by continuing to fix their lives, their honor, and their own search for eternal salvation on a book (and by implication a church and a ministry) they had fictitiously created out of whole cloth?
Never mind that their wives are about to be widows and their children fatherless. Never mind that their little band of followers will yet be “houseless, homeless and friendless” and that their children will leave footprints of blood across frozen rivers and an untamed prairie floor. Never mind that legions will die and other legions live declaring in the four quarters of this earth that they know the Book of Mormon and the Church which espouses it to be true. Disregard all of that, and tell me whether in this hour of death these two men would enter the presence of their Eternal Judge quoting from and finding solace in a book which, if not the very word of God, would brand them as impostors and charlatans until the end of time? They would not do that! They were willing to die rather than deny the divine origin and the eternal truthfulness of the Book of Mormon
The Book of Mormon is true, and was given to bring happiness and hope to the faithful in the travail of the latter days. Brothers and sisters, God always provides safety for the soul, and with the Book of Mormon, He has again done that in our time. Remember this declaration by Jesus Himself: “Whoso treasureth up my word, shall not be deceived” —and in the last days neither your heart nor your faith will fail you. Of this I earnestly testify in the name of Jesus Christ, amen
[Paramore]
Don't try to take this from me...
Don't try to take this from me...
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Don't try to take this from me...
Don't try to take this from me...
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Feels like I'm waken from the dead and everyone's been waiting on me...
Least now I'll never have to wonder what it's like to sleep a year away...
But were we indestructible?
I thought that we could brave it all...
I never thought that what would take me out was hiding down below...
Lost the battle, win the war...
I'm bringing my sinking ship back to the shore...
(Whoever you are...)
We're starting over, or head back in...
There's a time and a place to die but this ain't it...
(You can be forgiven...)
If there's a future, we want it...
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If there's a future, we want it...
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If there's a future, we want it...
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Don't try to take this from me...
Don't try to take this from me...
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Don't try to take this from me...
Don't try to take this from me...
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Wish I could find a crystal ball for the days I feel completely worthless...
You know I'd use it all for good, I would not take it for granted...
Instead, I'd have some memories for the days I don't feel anything...
At the least they will remind me not to make the same mistakes again...
Lost the battle, win the war...
I'm bringing my sinking ship back to the shore...
(Whoever you are...)
We're starting over, or head back in...
There's a time and a place to die but this ain't it...
(You can be forgiven...)
If there's a future, we want it...
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If there's a future, we want it...
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If there's a future, we want it...
[Jeffrey R. Holland]
We are at war, and for these next few minutes I want to be a one man recruiting station...
Of course the great thing about this call to arms is that we ask not for volunteers to fire a rifle or throw a hand grenade...
No, we want battalions who will take as their weapons...
Every word that proceedeth forth from the mouth of god...
[Angel]
When what has to be has been, I've learned to grin...
When light is dim, life is grim, life in sin, I can look too Him just like the men of Helaman...
Now is the time for this to end, a grand omen…
We're going in, this for him, for our friend, and all of our kin, amen for the final battle hymn...
So let the flames begin again...
Ignite the flame within ...
I'd rather never win, to last forever without sin...
So sign me up now for the war...
Our coup de main, we can come to fore...
Our time is Now, atwo by two, 2 Timothy 2: 3 and 4...
If there's a future, we want it...
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If there's a future, we want it...
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If there's a future, we want it now..
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