“LDS church provides place for displaced Muslim community to pray”

This story pleases me very, very much:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865671591/LDS-church-provides-place-for-displaced-Muslim-community-to-pray.html

What doesn’t please me is that I’ve forgotten who called it to my attention yesterday.  (I was slow in blogging about it.)  I apologize.

But it reminds of a statement from the Prophet Joseph Smith.

He said many wonderful things, of course.  Among my favorites is this, from a 15 December 1840 letter that he wrote to the Twelve from Nauvoo, Illinois.  It was published in Times and Seasons (1 January 1841, p. 258) and now appears in History of the Church, 4:227:

“Love is one of the chief characteristics of Deity, and ought to be manifested by those who aspire to be the sons of God. A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.”