Rameumptom: A Cautionary Tale

Alma Chapter 31 records the odd story of a people known as the Zoramites who were reportedly “perverting the ways of the Lord” (verse 1). Alma took seven companions to preach to them. They were astonished to see the method of worship the Zoramites had adopted. One day a week, they would gather into their … Read more

Interpreters

In Mosiah Chapter 8 king Limhi tells the visiting Ammon about an expedition that: discovered a land which was covered with bones of men, and of beasts, and was also covered with ruins of buildings of every kind, having discovered a land which had been peopled with a people who were as numerous as the … Read more

“Are we not all beggars?”

Today’s Gospel Doctrine class was Lesson 16 covering Mosiah chapters 4-6. It seemed to me that the class was unusually silent as the instructor read parts of King Benjamin’s sermon — especially his admonition to “not suffer that the beggar putteth up his petition to you in vain.” (Mosiah 4:16). Who among us has NOT … Read more