The Truths of the Gospel Will Ultimately Triumph

Again, continued from the lesson:

God’s power is greater than any evil, and the truths of the gospel will ultimately triumph.

“I beg leave to say unto you, brethren, that ignorance, superstition and bigotry placing itself where it ought not, is oftentimes in the way of the prosperity of this Church, like the torrent of rain from the mountains that floods the most pure and crystal stream with mire, and dirt, and filthiness, and obscures everything that was clear before, and all rushes along in one general deluge; but time weathers tide; and notwithstanding we are rolled in the mire of the flood for the time being, the next surge peradventure, as time rolls on, may bring to us the fountain as clear as crystal, and as pure as snow (emphasis added, kind of timely with the weather!); while the filthiness, flood-wood and rubbish is left and purged out by the way.

“How long can rolling water remain impure? What power shall stay the heavens? As well might man stretch forth his puny arm to stop the Missouri river in its decreed course, or to turn it up stream, as to hinder the Almighty from pouring down knowledge from heaven, upon the heads of the Latter-day Saints. [This paragraph is also found in D&C 121:33.]

The manual asks the following questions:

• Review Joseph Smith’s assurances to the Saints that the enemies of the Church could do nothing to hinder the power of God. Why do we sometimes forget this truth? What can we do to remember it?