TrendZion

Passages drawn from the sermons and published works that carry this theme forward.

1. 1857·Heber C. Kimball·Apostle
   What an almighty influence our Father and our God will have when He has gathered all His children! Will they control the remaining portion of the human family? They will. As I said that day, and as brother Joseph has said to-day, we hold the keys—that is, brother Brigham and his brethren—they hold the keys of the living and the dead.
2. 1859·John Taylor·Apostle
   Under the circumstances, what could God do? He could not do better than he has done. Men are now wandering in darkness, like you and I were before the Gospel greeted our ears. What did we know previous to that? ]Nothing. I did not know that it was necessary to be baptized for the remission of sins until the Gospel taught it to me; yet I knew the Bible from A to Z. I could read a great many things in the prophecies, and make calculations about the Millennium and the gathering of Israel, but did not know the first principles of the Gospel of Christ; and there is not a man here that knew them.
3. 1911·Charles W. Penrose·Apostle
   President Smith, in that grand discourse he gave to us at the opening of this conference, referred to the Prophet Joseph, and to some of the glorious principles which have been revealed from heaven through him. These are but the beginning, the droppings of the shower of the great flood of truth which is to come. We are living in the dispensation of the fulness of times, and in this dispensation — the grandest and greatest of all, will be gathered in
4. 1942·George Albert Smith·Apostle
   That was a marvelous message that was received this morning from the Presidency of the Church — you can't duplicate it in any other church in the world; and you can't think of anything that would be desirable to enrich the Church and to prepare us for a place in the celestial kingdom that was not included in that message. A marvelous gathering of facts and figures and advice and counsel that we would all do well to listen to and profit by.
5. 1949·Harold B. Lee·Apostle
   And that the gathering together upon the land of Zion, and upon her stakes, may be for a defense, and for a refuge from the storm, and from wrath when it shall be poured out without mixture upon the whole earth. (D. & C. 115:6.)
6. 1968·Gordon B. Hinckley·Apostle
   We extend a hearty welcome to all television and radio audiences, and to all who are gathered in this historic Tabernacle.