As I read the scriptures, Satan’s plan required one of two things: Either the compulsion of … man, or else saving men in sin. I question whether the intelligence of man can be compelled. Certainly men cannot be saved in sin...
If we have truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not truth, it ought to be harmed.
I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost!
“I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost!”
My point is that we are not equal at the beginning as intelligences; we were not equal in the Grand Council; we were not equal after the Grand Council.
By the word of the Lord the sole mandate to care for and the sole discretion in caring for, the poor of the Church is lodged [with] the bishops…It is his duty and his only to determine to whom, when, how, and how much shall be given to any member of his ward from Church funds...