Something POSITIVE about the internet

Something POSITIVE about the internet January 19, 2017

 

Chorley's LDS temple
The Preston England Temple is actually located in the town of Chorley.
(Photo from theLDS Media Library)

 

Yesterday, I posted a rather sardonic comment about the idiocy and aggressive hostility that run rampant in many portions of the internet.

 

However, there are very positive aspects to the internet, as well.  In response to yesterday’s comment and in that context, Alex Barclay, of Chorley, England, shared two marvelous quotations that I hadn’t seen before.  I pass them on here:

 

Quote from Nephi Anderson on 6 October 1912
“In conclusion, let me suggest the future of this work. I see the records of the dead and their histories gathered from every nation under heaven to one great central library in Zion – the largest and best equipped for its particular work in the world. Branch libraries may be established in the nations, but in Zion will be the records of last resort and final authority. Trained genealogists will find constant work in all nations having unpublished records, searching among the archives for families and family connections. Then, as temples multiply, and the work enlarges to its ultimate proportions, this Society, or some organization growing out of this Society, will have in its care some elaborate, but perfect system of exact registration and checking, so that the work in the temples may be conducted without confusion or duplication. And so throughout the years, reaching into the Millennium of peace, this work of salvation will go on, until every worthy soul that can be found from earthly records will have been searched out and officiated for; and then the unseen world will come to our aid, the broken links will be joined, the tangled threads will be placed in order, and the purposes of God in placing salvation within the reach of all will have been consummated.”

Quote from Archibald F. Bennett on 20 December 1947
“A universal system of intelligent cooperation will bring together on a record sheet every fact in existence regarding a particular family. This wealth of data will insure accuracy and banish error. Expensive and time-consuming duplications in research and repetitions in ordinances will be eliminated. No sooner will a new fact be uncovered in any part of the world by a researcher than it will be communicated to the Archives center and be assigned to its proper place, on some family record.”

 

I find both predictions quite striking.

 

 


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