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Show - .. . . . . .. , . , , - which grew 04 upon ground." ' ' ' And Abrabam looked toward IP :':, s,2 . ',,r Sodom and Gomorrkh and the smoke of the country went up , as the smoke of a furnace. S.1,711L1,!,ntt Why was Sodom Destroyed? Why was Gomorrah destroyed? How could they be so completeI .1 ly annihilated? Was it an atom-lik- e .., , it? bombor something By ELDER SPENCElt W. KIMBALL came down Fire from . the' Twelve of the Of the Council .A ' ,,,, , ,. i'. ' ,- 4 p'''j..4 heaven. Some strange kind of 1 1 0 Address given before the students of the Brigham Young ,. .. ' ' : ,,' ' r' ; combustipnwas permitted to '''''''( , i destroy these cities. No one University at Provo, at devotional exercises, Feb. 13, 1951. knows where they were, now. , Even the ruins cannot be found. '' , , ., , i t, , ',want le shake hands ,, AS I SAW this large audience of WE SAW NEAR MEXICO CITY t ' 'Not she Then this i yet? said, lyou.' young people gathered ''',' '' t the other day, a structure , ; ,t, morning, there came over me a On her hands and knees she which archaeologists claim WZIS i over the Icrawled as from had few I have such gartien feeling 'built 2.00,,years beforernfist. timesan intense feeling of to the house. Picking up a Undoubtedly it was tonstruct- ' the , hope, that I might be able to spade she crawled from ed by the Jaredites..lt is still in-- I 1.rotise a in definite and direction, say something helpful ' 1. ..,:' standing, but Sodom and Gomshe as ' the is a &tedious space pri- measuring apirational. It ,,,Ifi orrah, so far as we know, have vilage, my youog brothers and went. The spade struck someno trace left. They were totally ' sisters, to be attending this, the thing hard. With her hands she razed. Well, perhaps it wasan uncovout soil and the lifted" in the all greatest university 1 atomic bomb, or something akin :World. 'There is no other one ered a fruit jar. From the fruit I to one. but why were they deI 1 that can compare with it. There jar she took New Zealand fr'l 1 1001 to stroyed? Because of the wickwith about univcrstws are many 'inoney equivalent c A ' t edness of, the people. They had greater enrollment, larger fac- and handed it to me saying:I can elaboratis Now is This facilitithrrig. forgotten more why they came into-thand tny i ulty 11 Priest--hoo- d 'world. hands the sliarke which with They thought key institutions develop ties, ' de-- came Into the world just to of God.' I said: 'You do the mindbut this one have a good time and to yield signed to teach the mind, the, not owe that much tithing? to' every urge., appetite and 1, heart and the spirit liere you And she said; 'I know it I do I ,,A.,"'s."." , passion, end then they lost their have the privilege not only of not owe it now, but I am paying lives. ; I, ,,,,,ea ,,, following the regular academic some in advance, for I do not ' of ''" Priesthood the when Go back to the beginning of know sr .,, evenhow to learn but , subjects, , ' ' ..,..1,5-..,,, this way the world and you'll find it has tually to exalt yourselves and God will get around to help yourselves to become again.' And then I leaned over always been the. same. When Daniel with all the other of his Gods. It is a glorious privilege and pressed my nose and fore 4,' :::, , kinsmen were taken captive to , to attend Brigham Young, Uni- head against hers, and tears , from my eyes son down per Babylon, Daniel was wise be-' versity. 3 ' i cause he was faithful and clean This institution has no justi- cheeks Those coins that were in Itrkt and beeause he' was so close to fication for its existence tini his Heavenly andI he reJess it builds character, creates fruit jar in New Zealand came ceived revelations from the ELDER SPENCER W.' KIMBALL and develops faith, and 'makes to Salt LakeuCity, and part of Father. Belshazzar, the unholy men and women of strength them Were appropriated to this and courage, fortitude snd se- University and have helped to times. And king, called for "the golden and so, when we crossed and the ashes went into the rvice,men and women who pay theI cost of your education. the, border of France into Italy, sky for miles and milesmill- silver vessels which his father juswill become stalwarts in the Again repeat, there Nebuchadnezzar, had taken out for the Brigham one of my greatest anticipa- ions of tons of them. The lava of the temple which was in Kingdom and bear witness of tification flowed down the edge of that Jerusalem"2 and a thousand of the Restoration and the divini- Young University to exist un- tions was to see Pompeii. After spending some days conical structure, and pushed his lords, their wives and misare less is not young of the you people It justiGospel. ty we of it the before ruins Rome, everything in its path. tresses, sat in the great courts, growing spiritually as well as among 4ied on an academic basis only, VeIt burned the Vineyards, the in the fabulous for all your folks pay taxes- to mentally, to become the leaders went dawn to Naples,Weto city which was went orchards, and the home, It de- then so to of the Church tomorrow, to be suvrus and Pompeii. as they support state institutions indestructible, mountain on we as in the its wake, thought. stroyed everything its Prophets, seers and revela- as high . ,Vahich you are eligible. This inAnd he called for these n stitution has been established tors, to be its general board could go in a taxi, and then and some little cities were comclimbed the rest of the way to pletely burned or covered out to the and be devout vessels fdr a a of God which members, .,,Were very Prophet by out of the house 'of God, and fathers and mothers of an on- the top. We stood in the triter of existence. specific purpose. a yard of our feet, 'RUT POMPEII did not burn. It which had been consecrated for and I was in Mexico City a month coming. righteous generation. was not in the way of the sacred purposes, and they drank or so ago, and while I was in SISTER KIMBALL and I spent was that boiling, seethilig mass. our holidays this year down We could feel its fiery breath- -- Java flow, but the cinders and wine from'these vessels. "And the mission home there came in 'through the door, a Mexican in Maya land. We used some of we could see its rich color. Ve- ashes went into the air and drunkeness and adultery and And member- - about forty years of our hard earned savings of the suvius was still active. And then gradually settled, covering debauchery, followed. age, Ills clothes were common. long years ago When 1 was then we remembered that back the city completely. The people while they were in this sinful lie was most bumble. And af- making money. (Laughter.) We In 79 A. D., the Lord permit- in these buildings were choked state, there upon the wall Belter he' had talked to the presi- spent two weeks in Chieben ted it to "blow its top," literally to death. Their bodies were shazzar could see the fingers of found clasping each other in a man's hand, and there apdent of the mission a little Itza and Uxmal climbing the and figuratively. w bile, the president nip, old pyramids and the ruins of THIS CITY OF POMPEII was, deadly embrace. Cats and dogs peared writing on the wall. And as we came to know by first-har- e were found in the buildings. then the degenerate king, in 'Would you like to meet this an a cient civilization. And 'brother, Elder Kimball?" And as we 'loped those steep steps, experience, a city of the They were found as they died deep concern, offered to his ascovered with ashes, se. that trologers and soothsayers as I, shook his hand he showed felt o r way through thtise' world. The politiCians, the any price if they could 'me a tithing receipt. He had ,dark g4assages, and looked out wealthy, the socialites, came when the excavation was done come forty miles to pay his over tlat vast area, the thought from Rome to Pompeii near the the houses and contents were read what it was. It Was a coast of the Mediterranean, and in place. There had been no frustrating experience for him. 'tithing. It was not many pesos, contint4ed to come to me" h whlch would be aboot Why Why aren't these Mayan there spent their money in lay- general flie, bet many of the But even though they were roofs had been burned off. And promised to be draped in scaras many dollars, but he Indians still building temples ish and riotous living. had made a considerable sac- and other magnificent strucWe went through the City of then again I came to realize let and have, gold chains about rifice to come to pay his tithing., tures? We went into some of Pompeii which now has been why Pompeii was destroyed their necks, and to be third in Part of that man's tithing came the little MaY41 homes of to- excavated. The stone roads because of its wickedness and importance in the kingdom, here to build these buildings, day. They are little houses with show the marks of chariot depravity. I think Pompeii none of them could decipher it. Daniel was .recommended by pay these instructors and give Inc) corners, elliptical in shape, wheels. The roads are lower must have been in much the twice as long as vvidedirt than the sidewalks and we same position as Sodom had the queen who had heard of his to opportunity. , WHEN I WENT to settle my floors. They", are ,made of see where the hubs of the been long before it. You re- strange power; Daniel revealed tithing just before the end of sticks plastered with mud. chariots. bad .worn into , the member the story of Sodom and Interpretation" to them - thefirst line said: 'God hath numthe year, a father and his little They have thatched roofs made stones at the corners of the Gomorrah. son were just ahead of me. As from the grasses that grow in blocks. We went. into their There came to Abraham a thy kingdom, and finthey went iota the bishop's of- the ubiquitous jungles. Again bakeries where the fond was threat of destruction of Sodom ished it; The net line: 'Thou fice I Saw the boy fondling's wonderedwhy, do they prepared. We went into their and Gomorrah because "their art weighed in the balances and fifty-cePiece. .A hitle later grovel hi the earth today when homes where they lived. We sin is very grevious." Then art found wanting.' The third: in the be came out 'with a tithing theythad went into their theaters, and Abraham said to his Heavenly 'Thy kingdom is divided, and Pereeipt for - fifty cents. Part of their observatories, and looked into their 'baths.' Their empty Father: "Wilt thou also destroy given to the Mode!: and came . that fifty- tents will go to help into the heavens. And then the brothels and houses of prostitu- the righteous with the wicked?" sians.' and destruction ' '' answer comes ringing hack tion Were locked with padlocks He said, "If there were eaucate yoti young people. upon them. only ' You have the story with .great forcebecause .thiy and carried signs - in Italian, fifty wouldn't you' save the BABYLON is no more. Why? Because of unrighteousness Brother Cowley gave In Gen- forgot the purpose of life! They 'For Men Only.' city?" The Lord- - said, yes, if eral Conference, I am sure, of forgot the thing for which they These 'places of - shame stand he could find fifty righteous in We because of unrighteousnesst could"continue for hours the Maori woman who lived came to earth and they dwelt after 19 cente,iea- witnessi to this city it would be saved. and the stories of Jerusalent, tell In the outskirts and whom be in the earth and lived an earthy their degradation, and on the Doubts came to Abraham's time - life. And the time came: when visited. There were few- - mis-walls in these buildings, in color mind because he asked again with its temple destroyed after of Rome whele we sionaries because of the:,,,w- ar God would not tolerate it Is still time; two for would if be saved if there it preserved nearly in the and It had been long since he longer and be permitted them millennia, of every weren1 quite fifty? And then spent interesting days the the been visited. Brother Coly,-4- , to be decimated and destroyed. vice that couldpictures Coliseum, had through going be committed the Lord said if there were five noted' In 1937 Sister Kimball and underground the arches, ley states: sU less than human the being,-fifty He would still the "I went and greeted her (2 bad another.,Interestilig'.. trip. by vicious sins that have accumu- Save the city.Ior the righteous' passages, the, catacombs, bathhouses the great mansiont, blind woman SO years old) in Wit always enjoyed travel lated since Cain then he tame down in which the Romans.. found began his evil sake.-Anthe Maori fashion. She was out ing, stre ld that' time we went to ways. to forty, thirty, twenty, ten, le 'her-litttheir, fate in debauchery.24e in the backyard by ' Eurepee,Among the Interesting And then I came to realize and when ten rightenus could could go back to Nineveh and fire. dached forth int hand things we saw In Italy was the whi Pompeii was, destroyed. not be found destruction came. Babylon. ,We could visit many was to shake with her and I was city of PompeltWhen 41Tben There came a time when it the Lord rained places where the Jaredites and goingto, !Nib noses with her,, still a boy in my early teens, had to be destroyed. And so just VeSodom and Gomorrah upon the Nephites dwelt,' and every but she said, Me not shake I read from my father's library suvius brimstone and tire from the time, brothers and sisters, yUtt erupted, this high mounhands with me. I said; 'Oh, "The Last Days of Pompeii." no farther from the iitY I Lord out of heaven. And He would find that there! was one Is clean dirt on your hands. It intrigued me. I read It many tain, suppose, than this mounfain I overthrew those titles and all path which lead them- - to de, can see through the windows is the 'plain, and all the inhabiDESERET .141WS struction. 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