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		<title>&#8220;The Song of Solomon is Biblical Trash&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 01:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elder Bruce R. McConkie offered his opinion about the worth of some of the books of the Bible: In the Old Testament, Genesis is the book of books &#8211; a divine account whose worth cannot be measured.  Exodus and Deuteronomy are also of surpassing worth.  Numbers, Joshua, Judges, the Samuels, the Kings, and the Chronicles [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefairestgem.com&#038;blog=7513962&#038;post=274&#038;subd=thefairestgem&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil is Figurative</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 02:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As to the Fall itself we are told that the Lord planted “the tree of knowledge of good and evil” in the midst of the garden. (Moses 3:9.) To Adam and Eve the command came: “Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat, But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it, nevertheless, thou mayest choose for thyself, for it is given unto thee; but, remember that I forbid it, for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” (Moses 3:16–17.) Again the account is speaking figuratively. What is meant by partaking of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is that our first parents complied with whatever laws were involved so that their bodies would change from their state of paradisiacal immortality to a state of natural mortality. (Bruce R. McConkie, Ensign, June, 1982)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefairestgem.com&#038;blog=7513962&#038;post=270&#038;subd=thefairestgem&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>US Mormon population distribution 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>A Day of God&#8217;s Power With The Prophet Joseph</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 02:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the journal of Wilford Woodruff. &#160; While I was living in this cabin in the old barracks, we experienced a day of God&#8217;s power with the Prophet Joseph.  The large number of saints who had been driven out of Missouri were flocking into Commerce [afterwards named Nauvoo]; many were sick through the exposure they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefairestgem.com&#038;blog=7513962&#038;post=262&#038;subd=thefairestgem&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vision of the Saviour in a Dream of Orson F. Whitney</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 00:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born July 1, 1855 in Salt Lake City, Orson F. Whitney, a poet, historian and apostle, was the grandson of one of the original twelve apostles under Joseph Smith, Jr., Heber C. Kimball.  At twenty-one he was called to serve a mission to preach in Pennsylvania, the first of his many mission fields over the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefairestgem.com&#038;blog=7513962&#038;post=259&#038;subd=thefairestgem&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Optimism versus Pessimism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 00:07:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[﻿“The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or pessimistic spirit drags men down and away from God, looks on the dark side, murmurs, complains, and is slow to yield obedience. We should honor the Savior’s declaration to be of good cheer. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefairestgem.com&#038;blog=7513962&#038;post=256&#038;subd=thefairestgem&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Testimony of Phoebe W. Carter Woodruff</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 02:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phoebe W. Carter Woodruff, 1807-1885 Autobiography in Edward W. Tullidge, The Women of Mormondom, New York, 1877 pp. 399-400, 411- 414. SELECTIONS FROM THE WRITINGS OF PHOEBE W. CARTER WOODRUFF [Phoebe W. Carter was born in Scarboro, in the state of Maine, March 8th, 1807. Her father was of English descent, connecting with America at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefairestgem.com&#038;blog=7513962&#038;post=248&#038;subd=thefairestgem&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wilford Woodruff&#8217;s Wife Has a Near-Death Experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 02:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In October 1838, Wilford Woodruff began to lead 53 new Saints from his missionary labors in Maine to Nauvoo, Illinois.  It took them three months traveling in wagons.  Wilford took his wife and only child on this journey.  Early in his travels, he became sick as did his wife, their child, and several others.  In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefairestgem.com&#038;blog=7513962&#038;post=244&#038;subd=thefairestgem&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wilford Woodruff Sees a Sign in the Winter Skies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 02:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is an account recorded by Wilford Woodruff while on his missionary journeys in Bangor, Maine in 1838 with James Townsend. &#8220;On the evening of the 21st of February, as we came out of the schoolhouse [where he had preached that day], a light appeared in the northeastern horizon, and spread to the west [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefairestgem.com&#038;blog=7513962&#038;post=242&#038;subd=thefairestgem&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Remarkable Sign in the Heavens Seen by Wilford Woodruff</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This event took place on the North Fox Island off the coast of Maine on 21 February 1838: &#8220;On the evening of the 21st of February, as we came out of the schoolhouse, a light appeared in the northeastern horizon, and spread to the west and soon rolled over our heads.  It had the appearance [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thefairestgem.com&#038;blog=7513962&#038;post=236&#038;subd=thefairestgem&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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