The following excerpts are from a work by Deseret Sunday School Union:
Deseret Sunday School Union Leaflets: Lessons 1 to 136 Inclusive (Salt Lake City: George Q.
Cannon and Sons Company, 1898)
Lesson
11.—CHRIST CALMS THE STORM.
WHAT WE LEARN FROM THIS LESSON.
1. That Jesus had great faith. [RB: See this post to
see why Jesus having faith in God is of Christological importance]
LESSON
24.—CHRIST’S AGONY IN THE GARDEN.
That He did not pray once only, but many times, always making the
same request. So should we supplicate our Father continually. [RB: this
shows that not all repetitive prayers are “"vain repetitions"]
LESSON
47.—THE LIAHONA.
NOTES.
RIVER LAMAN.—Maps of this region show one short stream running
between two ranges of hills and emptying itself on the Arabian or eastern shore
into the Gulf of Akabah, near its southern extremity. This stream is probably
the river Laman. [RB: this is interesting as it shows that 19th
century Latter-day Saints believed the River of Laman would be discovered at or
near the Gulf of Aqabah [alt. “Akabah”]. The best candidate for the
River of Laman is situated east of the Gulf of Aqaba. See George D. Potter, A
New Candidate in Arabia for the “Valley of Lemuel" [1999] for e.g.)
THE LIAHONA.—This instrument must not be mistaken for the
mariner’s compass. The latter shows the traveler which way he is going, as
one of its needles always points to the north; but the needle, or spindle, in
the Liahona pointed the way that Lehi and his people should go, and
worked according to their faith, not according to the laws that govern the
inclinations of the needle in the mariner’s compass. The two instruments are
entirely different, the only similarity is that both are used for the same
purpose.
LESSON 48.—THE
NECESSITY OF A LATTER-DAY PROPHET
NOTES.
PROPHET.—The meaning usually attached to the term prophet is one
who foretells events. According to our ideas it has a somewhat broader
significance, denoting one who has the authority to receive the administration
of angels and of the Holy Spirit, and to stand at the head of God’s work upon
the earth. At every period of the world’s history, when God has had a
dispensation among men, He has always placed a prophet in charge of his
affairs. Prophets have been raised up, whenever special occasions demanded, to
bear a message to some particular people. A case in point is that of Jonah, who
was sent to Nineveh. Abinadi, sent to the people of King Noah, and Samuel, the
Lamanite, sent to the people in the city of Zarahemla, were prophets mentioned
in the Book of Mormon, as being raised up for the purpose of bearing special
messages. Joseph Smith, one of the greatest prophets that ever lived, has the
great honor of introducing and standing at the head of the dispensation of the
fullness of times.
LESSON 98.
JACOB’S BLESSING UPON JOSEPH.
[on Gen 49;1,
2, 22-26 and Deut 33:13-17]
EVERLASTING HILLS.—The continuous chain of mountains, known by
various local names that stretches through the entire length of North and South
America, but generally known as the Andes, in South America, and the Rocky
Mountains in the Northern Contingent. The Latter-day Saint who nearly all are
of the posterity of Joseph reside in the midst of these mountains, and thus
fulfill the words of Jacob and Moses. Millions of the Lamanites, who are also
the posterity of Joseph, dwell in the immediate neighborhood of these
“everlasting hills,” which are situated in that land which is the original home
of the human family.
