Doctrine and Covenants 51β57
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For Church members in the 1830s, gathering the Saints and building the city of Zion were spiritual as well as temporal works, with many practical matters to address: Someone needed to purchase and distribute land where the Saints could settle. Someone needed to print books and other publications. And someone needed to run a store to provide goods to those in Zion. In the revelations recorded in Doctrine and Covenants 51β57, the Lord appointed and instructed people to handle these tasks, and He identified Independence, Missouri, as βthe center placeβ of Zion (Doctrine and Covenants 57:3).
But while skills in such things as purchasing land, printing, and running a store are valuable to the temporal work of building Zion, these revelations also teach that the Lord desires His Saints to become spiritually worthy to be called a Zion people. He calls each of us to be βa faithful, a just, and a wise steward,β having a contrite spirit, βstand[ing] fastβ in our appointed responsibilities (see Doctrine and Covenants 51:19; 52:15; 54:2). If we can do thatβregardless of our temporal skillsβthe Lord can use us to build Zion, and He βwill hasten the city in its timeβ (Doctrine and Covenants 52:43).
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