BLESSINGS AND CURSINGS - PRESIDENT KIMBALL

Rhonda, a reader, had the following to say about the previous blog quote on cannibalism.  Kind of unsettling, really - until you read Josephus and other historical accounts of the siege against Jerusalem where people were eating their dead, etc in order to survive.  If they had only listened to the Prophets, their fair ones would not have fallen. 

The lamentations of the Book of Mormon were written for us, folks.  Not someone in Siberia that would never read the book.  It was written for the Gentiles that would not heed the calls of their prophets.  We, as a people, have fallen flat on our faces in this regard.

Iraq:  the quote from Spencer W. Kimball is his paraphrasing of the blessings and cursings listed in Leviticus chapter 26. He discussed this in a Conference talk from October 1961, which can be read in its entirety here: http://scriptures.byu.edu/gettalk.php?ID=1157