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I love ldsscriptureteachings.org. Here is great information on D&C 38-42 "I have made the earth rich", and it also includes the story of someone who became a true disciple of the Lord, Jesse Knight.https://www.ldsscriptureteachings.org/2 ... arth-rich/ Inspiring instruction on how to help the poor is found through out the scriptures(it is not communism or socialism).

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To understand Jesse Knight’s motivation, it is important to have some context from his life. Though the Knight family’s association with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints dated back almost to its founding, Jesse Knight had not always been a practicing member of the church, nor was he born into wealth. Knight believed he was led to his fortune by a voice from heaven. According to his son, J. William Knight, one day Jesse Knight was prospecting in Utah when he sat down by a tree and heard a voice. He told his son that, “we are going to have all the money that we want as soon as we are in a position to handle it properly … I have never had any [impression] come to me with greater force.”6 In 1896 he found the ore deposit that would make him rich. J. William Knight said as soon as his father made the discovery he remarked, “I have done the last day’s work that I ever expect to do … I expect to give employment and make labor from now on for other people.”7 Knight felt his money was divinely appointed to him and came with a “responsibility for doing good and building up the church.”8 His feeling of stewardship was strengthened and clarified when the presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints sent the following message to members of their church:

Men and women of wealth, use your riches to give employment to the laborer! Take the idle from the crowded centers of population and place them on the unfilled areas that await the hand of industry. Unlock your vaults, unloose your purses, and embark in enterprises that will give work to the unemployed, and relieve the wretchedness that leads to the vice and crime which curse your great cities, and that poison the moral atmosphere around you. Make others happy, and you will be happy yourselves.9https://mormonsettlement.com/2022/04/mr ... bitionist/

kirtland r.m. wrote: ↑February 4th, 2020, 8:03 pm I love ldsscriptureteachings.org. Here is great information on D&C 38-42 "I have made the earth rich", and it also includes the story of someone who became a true disciple of the Lord, Jesse Knight.https://www.ldsscriptureteachings.org/2 ... arth-rich/ Inspiring instruction on how to help the poor is found through out the scriptures(it is not communism or socialism).

He is an ancestor of my wife's. I've never paid much attention to the books she has on him, but I will now!