This chapter contains a very comforting scripture in verse
13 that helps me not blame the Lord when I see terrible things happen to good
people. It reads, “For the Lord
suffereth the righteous to be slain that his justice and judgment may come upon
the wicked; therefore ye need not suppose that the righteous are lost because
they are slain; but behold they do enter into the rest of the Lord their
God.” Elder David W. Patten, the first
apostle in this dispensation to be martyred, understood this concept. As he lay dying he recommended that his loved
ones not cry for him, but instead to cry for those who had apostatized from the
Church.
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