[Apostle Abraham H. Cannon Journal] A sad affair is reported as having occurred in Provo a few days since. Joseph Smoot, a son of Pres. A. O. Smoot, who is wild and addicted to the use of liquor, went into a salon and after getting a glass of whiskey mockingly consecrated it, as is customary in the consecration of oil in the Church. No sooner had he finished this sacrilegious act than he was struck with paralysis and fell helpless on the floor. His Gentile companions were horrified at his act, and its result, and carried him home where he has since laid in a very precarious condition. A horrible warming to scoffers!
[Source: Abraham H. Cannon Journal Excerpts, http://www.amazon.com/Apostles-Record-Journals-Abraham-1889-1896/dp/B000MFD1K4]
"And when I had said this, the Lord spake unto me, saying: FOOLS MOCK, but they shall mourn; and my grace is sufficient for the meek, that they shall take no advantage of your weakness;" (Ether 12:26)
ReplyDelete2 Peter 3:
ReplyDelete[3] Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days SCOFFERS, walking after their own lusts,
[4] And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
[5] For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
[6] Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
[7] But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
The prime example of scoffers are the serpents and vipers that spew their anti-Christian venom on the Salt Lake Tribune LDS comment board.