Richard Ballantyne Richard Ballantyne, convert to the Church, pioneer of Utah and founder of the first Latter-day Saint Sunday School, was born in Whitridgebog, Scotland, on August 26, 1817. When Richard was eleven years of age, his father died, and the boy had to find employment to assist in supportingContinue Reading

Edwin Rushton meets the Prophet Joseph Smith 1843 Account Told by His Son After sailing from England, our immigrant company reached Nauvoo, April 13, 1843. Father was very anxious to find the members of his family already established there, and hurried towards the town in search of them. He hadContinue Reading

First, adults need to understand, and our children should be taught, that private choices are not private; they all have public consequences. “There is a popular notion that doing our own thing or doing what feels good is our own business and affects no one but us. The deadly scourgesContinue Reading

Man is but a tenant of his physical body Man is but a tenant of his physical body. This view was very impressively expressed by ex-President of the United States John Quincy Adams. He was accosted on the streets of Boston by a friend who inquired how he was feeling,Continue Reading

The temporal salvation of man Taken from an address at a Church Welfare Meeting, Salt Lake Tabernacle, General Conference, Saturday, April 5, 1941. In 1897 when I was on my first mission, I found myself, one morning, distributing tracts in a little undesirable district in Stirling, Scotland. I approached oneContinue Reading

A prompting saves David O. McKay and others from certain death This incident is detailed by Virginia Budd Jacobsen. It happened in 1921, while President McKay and Elder Hugh Cannon were making a tour of the missions of the world. After a day of inspiring conference meetings in Hilo, Hawaii,Continue Reading

The faith of Catherine and Orson Spencer One such was Catherine Spencer. When she joined the Church, her parents became embittered and angry, disowning her and refusing to allow her to ever return to their home or even to correspond with them. During the Saints’ final days in Nauvoo, CatherineContinue Reading

Major Michael Duncan Jones U.S. Army Afghanistan, September 2004–February 2005 In addition to serving as brigade flight surgeon on Bagram Air Base, I also worked in the base hospital’s emergency room and as the physician for the detainee facility. There were roughly six hundred prisoners in that holding facility. SomeContinue Reading