“A treasure that is both hidden and inexhaustible”

It’s inexpressibly sad that such instructions even need to be given.  But they do:

“Safety in Chapels Is the Responsibility of Every Latter-day Saint: Update to security guidelines is a response to ‘changing conditions around the world’”

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But here’s a much, much more cheerful topic:

“Public Invited to Tour the Asunción Paraguay Temple”

Asunción Paraguay Temple: Video Presentations

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From The Blue & Gray Press, the student newspaper at the University of Mary Washington, which is located in the Commonwealth of Virginia:

“Students should be polite to visiting missionaries”

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And here are two interesting items from Pearl of Great Price Central:

“The Ancient Egyptian View of Abraham”

“The Ancient Owners of the Joseph Smith Papyri”

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While we’re on the topic of the Pearl of Great Price, permit me to call attention yet again to a must-read book on the subject, which you should seriously consider buying through Amazon.com:

John Gee, An Introduction to the Book of Abraham

“When the Book of Abraham was first published to the world in 1842, it was published as a translation of some ancient records that have fallen into {Joseph Smith s} hands from the catacombs of Egypt, purporting to be the writings of Abraham while he was in Egypt, called The Book of Abraham, Written by his Own Hand, upon Papyrus. The resultant record was thus connected with the papyri once owned by Joseph Smith, though which papyrus of the four or five in his possession was never specified. Those papyri would likely interest only a few specialists except that they are bound up in a religious controversy. This controversy covers a number of interrelated issues, and an even greater number of theories have been put forward about these issues. Given the amount of information available, the various theories, and the variety of fields of study the subject requires, misunderstandings and misinformation often prevail. Introduction to the Book of Abraham makes reliable information accessible to the general reader.”

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From the front page of the Pearl of Great Price Central website:

“The book that concerns us was purposely called “The Pearl of Great Price,” that term being . . . the designation of a treasure that is both hidden and inexhaustible. Being hidden, it must be searched out and dug up—brought out of the depths by the strenuous and determined efforts of whoever would possess it. Being inexhaustibly vast, it can never cease to be a source of new wonders to the inquiring mind. . . . The Pearl of Great Price is unique among scriptures in that its message is available only to that extent to which God’s children choose to make it so, but at the same time it is capable of conveying knowledge of undreamed of scope and significance. 

– Hugh Nibley, “A New Look at the Pearl of Great Price,” Improvement Era, May 1970, 94.