Comments on: Gospel Doctrine Lesson 12: How We Taught This Topic in the Past http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2009/03/15/gospel-doctrine-lesson-12-how-we-taught-this-topic-in-the-past/ Where our past is never very long ago Sat, 25 May 2013 06:15:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ardis E. Parshall http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2009/03/15/gospel-doctrine-lesson-12-how-we-taught-this-topic-in-the-past/comment-page-1/#comment-8131 Ardis E. Parshall Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:13:38 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=1114#comment-8131 Thank you for wading through all that, Hunter. Some things never change, do they? (and this time I’m not referring to the Gospel)

]]> By: Hunter http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2009/03/15/gospel-doctrine-lesson-12-how-we-taught-this-topic-in-the-past/comment-page-1/#comment-8130 Hunter Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:43:43 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=1114#comment-8130 It was interesting to see the various treatments of this topic, especially since our understanding of “gathering” has changed over time. In that light, after reading the 1896 Sunday School leaflets’ description of Joseph’s “prophetic eye” being so firmly fixed on gathering in the “west,” or Missouri, I found myself wanting to see how the 1896 writers would have dealt with the concept of the Saints gathering to the Salt Lake Valley.

And I laughed when reading the description of the Southerners in Missouri as “illiterate, frontier people . . . who partook of all the prejudices that so largely characterized the people of that section of the country.” (emphasis mine).

Last, it was a sad reminder of the seemingly never-ending Israeli/Arab conflict to read Bryant Hinckley in 1949 refer to the “bitter war” being waged at that time “between the Jews and their ancient enemies, the Arabs.”

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