Let us have the courage to live righteously and to do what is expected of us in our various responsibilities and positions. Let us have the courage to repent daily, the courage to accept God’s will and obey His commandments. Let us have the courage to do what is right even when it is unpopular-the courage to defend our faith and to act by faith.

Courage, brethren and on, on to the victory!” ( Doctrine and Covenants 128:22). In modern scripture, we read the inspired words of the Prophet Joseph Smith reflecting the Lord’s encouragement to us: “Brethren, shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward and not backward. In the recent General Conference, Elder Alfred Kyungu of the Quorum of the Seventy quoted this scripture:

What does it mean for the “knowledge of God” to descend “as the dews of Mt.Iowa State University, Department of Agronomy, “Dew” That was the first rain known, by some accounts, in that part of the earth. Then it started to rain and flooded them. In some accounts, all moisture that would ever accumulate was dew up until the time of Noah and the Ark. The dew supports a heavy vegetation for an arid area which does not have rain. It does not rain or create fog very often, but heavy dew forms on the side of that mountain.

Carmel in the Israel, Palestine area are produced by moist air from the Mediterranean which comes in almost every night. The Bible in the Old Testament says, “As the dews upon Mt. One that has been known for thousands of years was written about in the Bible. There are places in the world where it seldom rains. What does that metaphor about the dews upon Mt.

What excites you about the gospel of Jesus Christ?.

What was Joseph Smith so excited about in these verses?.

Let the woods and all the trees of the field praise the Lord and ye solid brocks weep for joy! And let the sun, moon, and the cmorning stars sing together, and let all the sons of God shout for joy! And let the eternal creations declare his name forever and ever! And again I say, how glorious is the voice we hear from heaven, proclaiming in our ears, glory, and salvation, and honor, and dimmortality, and eternal life kingdoms, principalities, and powers! Let the amountains shout for joy, and all ye valleys cry aloud and all ye seas and dry lands tell the wonders of your Eternal King! And ye rivers, and brooks, and rills, flow down with gladness. Let the cdead speak forth anthems of eternal praise to the dKing Immanuel, who hath ordained, before the world was, that which would enable us to eredeem them out of their fprison for the prisoners shall go free. aCourage, brethren and on, on to the victory! Let your hearts rejoice, and be exceedingly glad. A voice of the Lord in the wilderness of Fayette, Seneca county, declaring the three witnesses to dbear record of the book! The voice of eMichael on the banks of the Susquehanna, detecting the fdevil when he appeared as an angel of glight! The voice of hPeter, James, and John in the wilderness between Harmony, Susquehanna county, and Colesville, Broome county, on the Susquehanna river, declaring themselves as possessing the ikeys of the kingdom, and of the dispensation of the fulness of times!Īnd again, the voice of God in the chamber of old aFather Whitmer, in Fayette, Seneca county, and at sundry times, and in divers places through all the travels and tribulations of this Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints! And the voice of Michael, the archangel the voice of bGabriel, and of Raphael, and of divers cangels, from Michael or dAdam down to the present time, all declaring their edispensation, their rights, their fkeys, their honors, their majesty and glory, and the power of their priesthood giving line upon line, gprecept upon precept here a little, and there a little giving us consolation by holding forth that which is to come, confirming our hhope!īrethren, shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward and not backward. How beautiful upon the mountains are the dfeet of those that bring glad tidings of good things, and that say unto Zion: Behold, thy God reigneth! As the edews of Carmel, so shall the knowledge of God descend upon them!Īnd again, what do we hear? Glad tidings from aCumorah! bMoroni, an angel from heaven, declaring the fulfilment of the prophets-the cbook to be revealed. Now, what do we hear in the gospel which we have received? A voice of agladness! A voice of mercy from heaven and a voice of btruth out of the earth glad tidings for the dead a voice of gladness for the living and the dead glad tidings of great cjoy. In Doctrine and Covenants 128:19-23, we read from a September 1842 letter from Joseph Smith to members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) some of the most joyous, exultant and downright perky verses in our canon:

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