#427: Promise: "Even to Your Old Age"

4 And even to your old age I am He; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.

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Old Testament | Isaiah 46:4

#426: The Voice of Roger Williams*

Let us, with urgency, repeat and live the words of Roger Williams. Perhaps this advice from 1839 AD could apply to this earlier voice from the dust of 1600s New England: “Let no man count [these words] as small things; for there is much which lieth in futurity, pertaining to the saints [and to all the world -sms], which depends upon these things.” (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 123:15)

Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained. And whenever men have attempted any thing by this violent course, whether openly or by secret means, the issue has been pernicious, and the cause of great and wonderful innovations in the principallest and mightiest kingdoms and countries... **

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*Roger Williams (c. 1603 – March 1683)[1] was an English-born New England Puritan minister, theologian, and author who founded Providence Plantations, which became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and later the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. He was a staunch advocate for religious freedom, separation of church and state, and fair dealings with the American Indians.[2] | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Williams
● "The most fascinating figure of America's formative seventeenth century," Roger Williams has now gained general acceptance as a symbol of a critical turning point in American thought and institutions. He was the first American to advocate and activate complete freedom of conscience, dissociation of church and state, and genuine political democracy. From his first few weeks in America he openly raised the banner of "rigid Separatism." In one year in Salem he converted the town into a stronghold of radical Separatism and threw the entire Bay Colony into an uproar. Banished for his views, after being declared guilty of "a frontal assault on the foundations of the Bay system," he escaped just as he was to be deported to England.
He settled in Providence with thirteen other householders and in one year formed the first genuine democracy, as well as the first church-divorced and conscience-free community in modern history. Williams felt that government is the natural way provided by God to cope with the corrupt nature of man. But since government could not be trusted to know which religion is true, he considered the best hope for true religion the protection of the freedom of all religion, along with non-religion, from the state. | Cyclone Covey in The Gentle Radical: Roger Williams (1966) | from https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Roger_Williams_%28theologian%29 (Section: Quotes about Williams)
**"A Plea for Religious Liberty" an excerpt from The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution, for Cause of Conscience (1644)" (Address to Parliament)

#425: The Voice of Roger Williams*

Let us, with urgency, remember and live the words of Roger Williams. Perhaps this warning from 1839 AD could apply to this voice from the dust of 1600s New England: “Let no man count [these words] as small things; for there is much which lieth in futurity, pertaining to the saints [and all the world -sms], which depends upon these things.” (Doctrine and Covenants | Section 123:15)

Enforced uniformity confounds civil and religious liberty and denies the principles of Christianity and civility. No man shall be required to worship or maintain a worship against his will.**

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*Roger Williams (c. 1603 – March 1683) ... was an English-born New England Puritan minister, theologian, and author who founded Providence Plantations, which became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and later the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. He was a staunch advocate for religious freedom, separation of church and state, and fair dealings with the American Indians.[2] | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Williams
● "The most fascinating figure of America's formative seventeenth century," Roger Williams has now gained general acceptance as a symbol of a critical turning point in American thought and institutions. He was the first American to advocate and activate complete freedom of conscience, dissociation of church and state, and genuine political democracy. From his first few weeks in America he openly raised the banner of "rigid Separatism." In one year in Salem he converted the town into a stronghold of radical Separatism and threw the entire Bay Colony into an uproar. Banished for his views, after being declared guilty of "a frontal assault on the foundations of the Bay system," he escaped just as he was to be deported to England.
He settled in Providence with thirteen other householders and in one year formed the first genuine democracy, as well as the first church-divorced and conscience-free community in modern history. Williams felt that government is the natural way provided by God to cope with the corrupt nature of man. But since government could not be trusted to know which religion is true, he considered the best hope for true religion the protection of the freedom of all religion, along with non-religion, from the state. | Cyclone Covey in The Gentle Radical: Roger Williams (1966) | from https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Roger_Williams_%28theologian%29 (Section: Quotes about Williams)
** As quoted in The Great Quotations on Religious Freedom (1991) edited by Albert J. Menendez and Edd Doerr

#424: Promise: “My People Will I Preserve”

60 And the Lord said unto Enoch: As I live, even so will I come in the last days, in the days of wickedness and vengeance, to fulfil the oath which I have made unto you concerning the children of Noah;
61 And the day shall come that the earth shall rest, but before that day the heavens shall be darkened, and a veil of darkness shall cover the earth; and the heavens shall shake, and also the earth; and great tribulations shall be among the children of men, but my people will I preserve;*

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*Pearl of Great Price | Moses 7:60-61