Come Follow Me Doctrine & Covenants Podcast #11: “Seek for the Things of a Better World,” Doctrine and Covenants 23-26

Meridian Magazine--Come Follow Me Latter-day Saint Podcast

Scot Facer Proctor

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🗓️ 14 March 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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March 17-23

After the sacred gathering of nearly four dozen Saints in the Whitmer Home in Fayette, New York on Tuesday, April 6, 1830, this tiny band was given the commission to take the restored gospel of Jesus Christ to all the world. What an overwhelming task! How could so few bless so many? And yet, the Lord knew who He was calling and what various converts would do. One eager young man, twenty-two-year-old Samuel Harrison Smith, younger brother of the Prophet Joseph, stepped forward and volunteered to start the work. And within 100 days, a remarkable woman was called to give her gifts and talents to the kingdom—Emma Hale Smith.

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0:00.0	After the sacred gathering of nearly four dozen saints in the Whitmer home in Fayette, New York on Tuesday, April 6th, 1830 to organize the church, this little, no, this tiny band was given the commission to take the restored gospel of Jesus Christ to all the world.
0:35.6	What an overwhelming task! How could so few bless so many? And yet the Lord
0:42.6	knew who he was calling and what various converts would do. One eager young man, 22-year-old
0:49.8	Samuel Harrison Smith, younger brother of the prophet Joseph, stepped forward and volunteered to start
0:56.0	the work. And within 100 days, a remarkable woman was called to give her gifts and talents to the
1:03.1	kingdom. Emma Hale Smith. Welcome, dear friends, to Meridian Magazine's Come Follow Me podcast.
1:16.7	We are Scott and Maureen Proctor, and this week's material covers Doctrine and Covenant sections 23 through 26 and is entitled Strength in the Church.
1:22.4	We are excited to talk to you this week about two of our beloved heroes from early church history. But before we
1:29.7	talk about Samuel and about Emma, we need to tell you about one little-known early convert to the church,
1:36.4	Solomon Chamberlain. Remember, the Lord works with the weak and the simple to bring forth his
1:42.7	mighty works, and Solomon, like all of us, was among the weak and the simple to bring forth his mighty works, and Solomon, like all of us, was among
1:46.4	the weak and the simple, and his story shows that out of small things proceeded, that which is great.
1:53.8	That's right. Solomon had a vision in which he was shown that God was about to establish his
1:59.2	true church on the earth as in New Testament times.
2:02.6	Solomon was traveling on the Erie Canal in the fall of 1829 when he was directed by the Spirit,
2:09.6	or a spirit guide as he called it, at Palmyra to get off the boat and travel south.
2:16.6	The Spirit directed him to a farmhouse for the night,
2:19.8	and within a short time, the woman of the house told him about Joseph Smith and the gold Bible.
2:26.2	When the woman mentioned the gold Bible, Solomon said,
2:30.5	There was a power like electricity went from the top of my head to the end of my toes. He found that he was only
2:37.8	one half mile from the Smith cabin, and he immediately left and called on that household. I love Solomon's
2:46.2	door approach. Peace be to this house. Is there anyone here that believes in visions or revelations?
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