#529: "Of Their Own Free Will"

27 And again Alma commanded that the people of the church should impart of their substance, every one according to that which he had; if he have more abundantly he should impart more abundantly; and of him that had but little, but little should be required; and to him that had not should be given.
28 And thus they should impart of their substance of their own free will and good desires towards God, and to those priests that stood in need, yea, and to every needy, naked soul.
29 And this he said unto them, having been commanded of God; and they did walk uprightly before God, imparting to one another both temporally and spiritually according to their needs and their wants.*

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*Book of Mormon | Mosiah 18:27-29

#528: "Yielding Pacifieth Great Offences

Have we learned this lesson yet?

4 If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.*

[Read in: "the spirit of the ruling elite"]

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*Old Testament | Ecclesiastes 10:4

#527: "This Unarmed Faith"

"The centralized atheism before whose armed might the whole world trembles still hates and fears this unarmed [Christian] faith as much today as it did 60 years ago. Yes! All the savage persecutions loosed upon our people by a murderous state atheism, coupled with the corroding effect of its lies, and an avalanche of stultifying propaganda — all of these together have proven weaker than the thousand-year-old faith of our nation. This faith has not been destroyed; it remains the most sublime, the most cherished gift to which our lives and consciousness can attain."

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https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn ... (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) ... was a Russian novelist, philosopher, historian, short story writer, and political prisoner. One of the most famous Soviet dissidents, Solzhenitsyn was an outspoken critic of communism and helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union (USSR), in particular the Gulag system. | From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn