April 2005 Ensign - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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54 Now and then in a quiet garden, or amid the fires and thunders of Sinai, or inside a sepulchre that cannot be sealed, . . . the Lord intervenes in the affairs of men and manifests His will relative to their salvation. O nce or Twice in a Thousand Years BY ELDER BRUCE R. MCCONKIE (1915–85) Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles Bruce R. McConkie was born on July 29, 1915, at Ann Arbor, Michigan, to Vivian Redd and Oscar Walter McConkie. He was sustained to the First Council of the Seventy on October 6, 1946, and was ordained an Apostle on October 12, 1972. He died on April 19, 1985, at Salt Lake City, Utah. This eloquent testimony of the Restoration was delivered in general conference. Once or twice in a thousand years— perhaps a dozen times since mortal man became of dust a living soul—an event of such transcendent import occurs that neither heaven nor earth [is] ever thereafter the same. Once or twice in a score of generations the hand from heaven clasps the hand on earth in perfect fellowship, the divine drama unfolds, and the whole course of mortal events changes. Now and then in a quiet garden, or amid the fires and thunders of Sinai, or inside a sepulchre that cannot be sealed, or in an upper room—almost always apart from the gaze of men and seldom known by more than a handful of people—the Lord intervenes in the affairs of men and manifests His will relative to their salvation. One such event took place six millennia ago in a garden which was planted eastward in Eden when the man Adam and the woman Eve fell that men might be. Another such event altered the course of history when an aged prophet believed God and built an ark wherein he and seven others, out of all the inhabitants of the earth, were saved from a watery grave. The most transcendent of all such events occurred in a garden called Gethsemane, outside Jerusalem’s walls, when the Chief Citizen of planet Earth sweat great drops of blood from every pore as He in agony took upon Himself the sins of all men on conditions of repentance. Yet another of these events, destined to affect the life and being of every living soul, happened in the Arimathean’s tomb when the sinless spirit
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