Saints: The Illustrated Book of Days: 365 Days of Inspiration from the Lives of Saints

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Photius promised everything, and was accordingly consecrated, but by the very same Gregory, and took possession of the See. Six months had not yet passed over, since his consecration, and he had broken all his oaths and promises; he persecuted St. Ignatius, and all the ecclesiastics who adhered to him; he even got some of them flogged, and by promises and threats induced several to sign documents, intended for the ruin of his sainted predecessors. Not being able to accomplish his design, he laid a plot, with the assistance of Bardas, that the Emperor should send persons to take information, to prove that St. Ignatius was privately conspiring against the state.' And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison and will come out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea. And they marched up over the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, but fire came down from heaven and consumed them. [14] Plot [ edit ]

Add in the current conflict in Ukraine, and the stories told in the volume feel more relevant now than when the project started, Hales said. The books include both divine truth and stories of imperfect people trying to become Saints through the Atonement of Christ, he pointed out. “Taken together, the four volumes tell the story of the Lord’s Church striving to fulfill its mandate to perfect the Saints.” Virgins who have the happiness of dedicating them selves to the love of Jesus Christ by consecrating to him the lily of their purity, are, in the first place, as dear to God as his angels. . . a certain virgin, called Georgia, was at the point of death a great multitude of doves was seen hovering about her; that when her body was brought to the church they flew to that part of the roof which corresponded to the place where the corpse had been put, and remained there till after the interment. By all who saw them, these doves were regarded as angels paying respect and homage to the body of the virgin.' Saints: The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days: Volume 2: No Unhallowed Hand: 1846–1893 (LDS Church, February 12, 2020.) Elder Snow noted that additional in-depth material on selected topics will be published online to support each volume. This is indicated in the endnotes, where the word Topic is printed in boldface to indicate additional information online at saints.ChurchofJesusChrist.org.In the book, the media, the church, the UN, and human-rights groups are all villains corroding the West from within, sapping the West of its will to fight for its survival in the face of a wave of millions of nonviolent Third-World refugees who end up on the shores of Europe. The book’s villains espouse an anti-racist ideology, a utopian brotherhood of man vision that (in the book’s worldview) leaves the West helpless to preserve its way of life, its traditions, its racial purity. The “White Genocide” that’s presented as an apocalypse in the book is the slow, nonviolent mingling of races. So we ought to love our heavenly Father and say to him over and over again: "Our Father who art in heaven" - Thou who dost fill heaven and earth with the immensity of thy being, Thou who art present everywhere: Thou who art in the saints by thy glory, in the damned by thy justice, n the good by thy grace, in sinners by the patience with which thou dost tolerate them, grant that we may always remember that we come from thee; grant that we may live as thy true children; that we may direct our course towards thee alone with all the ardour of our soul.' Noting that Saints was prepared in response to the Lord’s commandment in Doctrine and Covenants 47:3 to “keep the church record and history continually,” Elder Snow explained that it is unlike past histories of the Church. By the end of the book you may find yourself focused more on culture than ethnicity. In fact, as the story climaxes, one of the more heroic defenders of France against the invaders is a Frenchman of Indian ethnicity. He is simply a French patriot defending his country, and the fact that he has dark skin matters naught because he is French first. And why should he not defend his country against an invasion (even an unarmed one?) Most white Frenchmen could never do this, of course, feeling a weird racial guilt at the very idea of fighting poor third world people (even if they are conquering France.) The author uses the term "The Beast" to describe this moral-duced inability to confront something like an unarmed invasion, even when it is evident the result will be much worse than what the Nazis brought with their panzers and Luftwaffe.

We put in the twelfth place solitude, which is the surest guardian of innocence. Nothing so powerfully preserves it, and it is this which all at once cuts off the occasion of all sins, since it banishes from our eyes and our senses all the objects which may give them birth. This remedy is so certain, that heaven sent no other to the blessed Arsenius, when he heard that voice which said to him, "Arsenius, fly, keep silence, and be quiet." If you will then become true servants of God, endeavour to retire into yourselves, do all that possibly you can to free yourselves from all visits, compliments, and worldly conversations. For what can you hear in companies, but detractions, lies, or flatteries? Or, if they are exempt from these things that are sins, which rarely happens, they are not from abundance of others less criminal indeed, yet such as will render your souls void of devotion, and so fill them with the images and remembrance of what you shall have seen and heard, that will never fail to present itself before you at the time of prayer, and hinder it from being so free and pure as it ought to be. But if you are looked on as uncourteous, and if worldly men take it ill that you pay them not these civilities, trouble not yourselves about it, for it is far less in convenient that men should complain of you, than that you should displease God; cast your eyes on the martyrs, and so many other saints who have done so great, and suffered so terrible things to obtain heaven.' But now I shall tell you God's will in this matter; for I gave birth to God himself. . . that if some pope concedes to priests a license to contract carnal marriage, God will condemn him to a sentence as great, in a spiritual way, as that which the law justly inflicts in a corporeal way on a man who has transgressed so gravely that he must have his eyes gouged out, his tongue and lips, nose and ears cut off, his hands and feet amputated, all his body's blood spilled out to grow completely cold, and finally, his whole bloodless corpse cast out to be devoured by dogs and other wild beasts. Similar things would truly happen in a spiritual way to that pope who were to go against the aforementioned preordinance and will of God and concede to priests such a license to contract marriage. For that same pope would be totally deprived by God of his spiritual sight and hearing, and of his spiritual words and deeds. All his spiritual wisdom would grow completely cold; and finally, after his death, his soul would be cast out to be tortured eternally in hell so that there it might become the food of demons everlastingly and without end. Yes, even if Saint Gregory the Pope had made this statute, in the aforesaid sentence he would never have obtained mercy from God if he had not humbly revoked his statute before his death.'

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In any case, don't compare this to The Turner Diaries or something like that. I've read The Turner Diaries and there is not even remote comparison between these works. The Camp of Saints is poetic, sublime, a product of Enlightened tought, and a masterpiece. You may feel a bit like Pandora if you choose to open it up. But then, who could ask for more of any book?

The Camp of the Saints initially received a positive reception in France, [18] with most critics focusing on the "prophetic" nature of the story. [2] It was praised by journalist Bernard Pivot and intellectuals such as Jean Anouilh, Hervé Bazin, Michel Déon, Jean Cau, Thierry Maulnier, and Louis Pauwels. [5] [19] [4]The global reach of the restored gospel since then and the Lord’s command to keep the history continually ‘for the good of the church, and for the rising generations’ ( D&C 69:8) signal that it is time to include more Latter-day Saints in the story,” Elder Snow wrote in his article.