Journal of Discourses 5:32; “There are men and women in this congregation of that stamp. I wish I had some stones; I want to pelt your cursed heads, for you lie like hell. Are you valiant to stand by the work of God, and by your brethren? If you are not, you had better put out, you poor curses.
There is a poor curse who has written the bigger part of those lies which have been printed in the States; and I curse him, in the name of Israel’s God, and by the Priesthood and authority of Jesus Christ; and the disease that is in him shall sap and dry up the fountain of life and eat him up. Some of you may think that he has not the disease I allude to; but he is full of pox from the crown of his head to the point of its beginning. That is the curse of that man; it shall be so, and all Israel shall say, Amen. [The vast congregation of Saints said, “Amen.”]” – Heber C Kimball, Salt Lake City, July 12, 1857
Luke 6:27-28; “But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, 28 Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.”
Did the people in the congregation say amen because of fear or because they truly agreed with Kimball’s statement?
Why would other people’s opinion of you matter if you’re following God?
Is this a statement you’d make in Jesus’ presence? If not, then why make it at all?
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