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President Gordon B Hinckley on Blacks amp the LDS Priesthood
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• How to Learn More about the LDS (Morm... is a video describing how to learn more about the Mormon Church. • • In 1978, an official declaration of the First Presidency reported that a revelation had been received by Mormon Church President Spencer W. Kimball directing that all worthy men be allowed to receive the priesthood. Until 1978, men of African descent had not been permitted to receive the LDS priesthood, although they could become members and serve within the church. • • Elder David B. Haight was present when President Kimball received the revelation. Years later he bore this testimony in general conference: • • I noticed an edition of the Chicago Tribune on the newsstand. The headline in the paper said, Mormons Give Blacks Priesthood. And the subheading said, President Kimball Claims to Have Received a Revelation. I bought a copy of the newspaper. I stared at one word in that subheading—claims. It stood out to me just like it was in red neon. As I walked along the hallway to make my plane connection, I thought, Here I am now in Chicago walking through this busy airport, yet I was a witness to this revelation. I was there. I witnessed it. I felt that heavenly influence. I was part of it. Little did the editor of that newspaper realize the truth of that revelation when he wrote, ... Claims to Have Received a Revelation. Little did he know, or the printer, or the man who put the ink on the press, or the one who delivered the newspaper—little did any of them know that it was truly a revelation from God. Little did they know what I knew because I was a witness to it (David B. Haight, This Work Is True, Ensign, May 1996, 22). • • Another leader in the Mormon Church related the following about one of the early Mormon converts in Africa: • • Moses Mahlangu, of Soweto, South Africa, patiently but persistently waited sixteen years for baptism. When he speaks of his long wait to join the Church, Brother Mahlangu compares himself to Cornelius [the first Gentile to join the early Christian Church after Peter received revelation that the gospel was spread to the Gentiles], who he says was very good in waiting to receive the word of God or to be a member of the Church until the angels came and told him what to do. (See Acts 10:1--7) Today, at age sixty-three, Moses is a grounds-keeper at the Johannesburg South Africa Temple, which he regularly attends. He is also the elders quorum president in the Soweto Branch. (E. Dale LeBaron, Gospel Pioneers in Africa, Ensign, Aug. 1990, 40) • Since 1978, the Mormon Church has grown extensively in Africa and currently has temples in Nigeria, Ghana, and South Africa. As of 2004, there were over 220,000 members of the Mormon Church in Africa. • • For more information, visit http://www.blacklds.org
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