The Holy Ghost is [the Father and the Son's] minister to bring truths
to our remembrance, to reveal new truths to us, and teach, guide, and
direct the course of every mind, until we become perfected and prepared
to go home, where we can see and converse with our Father in Heaven
(DBY, 26).
Provenance:
- DBY, 26 reads:
Our faith is concentrated in the Son of God, and through him in the Father; and the Holy Ghost is their minister to bring truths to our remembrance, to reveal new truths to us, and teach, guide, and direct the course of every mind, until we become perfected and prepared to go home, where we can see and converse with our Father in Heaven. 6:98.
- DBY, 26 is taken from the Journal of Discourses, November 29, 1857.
Relevant scriptures:
- D&C 130:22 reads:
The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man's; the Son also; but the Holy Ghost has not a body of flesh and bones, but is a personage of Spirit. Were it not so, the Holy Ghost could not dwell in us.
Brian Madsen's occasionally opinionated observations:
(Please read this disclaimer.)
- The Journal of Discourses reads "to bring truths to us",
DBY changes to read "to bring truths to our remembrance.
I can't imagine what the significance of this change is.
- The Journal of Discourses includes an additional sentence, which I feel
is significant, and whose omission I regret. It reads:
That is what we want to attain -- that we can all the
time have the word of the Lord of ourselves.
Brian C. Madsen