To think about...
"And in this mountain shall the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. (Isaiah 25:6)

"By teaching the gospel to the earth's inhabitants, we invite people to come to this feast, also called "the supper of the Lord" (D&C 58:11), the "supper of the house of the Lord" (D&C 58:9), and the "marriage supper of the Lamb" (Rev. 19:9).

"All nations" are invited—"first, the rich and the learned, the wise and the noble"—but when these reject the invitation to the feast, the Lord's representatives will invite the poor and the humble. Only those who are truly the humble followers of Christ will be able to partake of the feast. This feast will take place at or near the time of the Second Coming (D&C 58:9-11; Rev. 19:7-8; Matt. 22:2-14; Luke 14:16-24). (Understanding Isaiah by Donald W. Parry, Jay A. Parry, Tina M. Peterson)
 

 
 

GospeLink:  An Amazing Resource
by Paul Savage

Deseret Book's website, GospeLink.com is an amazing resource. You can search by any word, phrase, or random group of words, through hundreds of Church books and periodicals.

 

The world's largest LDS electronic reference library is now online!

GospeLink.com, Deseret Book's comprehensive CD-ROM reference library, is now available by subscription to anyone with internet access. This puts thousands of the most important LDS publications at your fingertips regardless of where you are or what browser you use.

Deseret Book's website, Gospelink.com is an amazing resource. It does have a small cost associated with it, currently an introductory price of $39.00 per year, around $3.25 per month. You can search by any word, phrase, or random group of words, through hundreds of Church books and periodicals. Of course, the Church's own website, www.lds.org has a great search engine for conference talks and Ensign and New Era articles.  Curriculum and many other church manuals are also available online at www.lds.org.

Between the two of these websites, I'm usually able to find great information on most subjects. Part of remembering articles is just repetition. I think most people develop a list of favorite articles or talks that they try to remember.

But sometimes, the Spirit brings a phrase from a talk to your remembrance, and that's all you need to do a search. For instance, Elder Eyring gave a great talk a few years ago in conference about how we need to be better member-missionaries, and the one story that really stuck in my mind was how he wished he had asked his boss if he would like to know more about the Church, but he never found the right moment.

Of course, I couldn't for the life of me remember which talk or what year it was in, but I remembered one phrase, "I may have been the only Mormon he ever knew well." So I went to www.lds.org and clicked "search," and used the words "Eyring only Mormon knew well".

Elder Eyring's talk, "A Voice of Warning," was the first one to come up! It turns out that it was in the November 1998 Conference Report. What was funny was that I didn't even have the quote all the way right. It should have been "I may have been the only Latter-Day Saint he ever knew well." But since my search words were close enough, I still found what I wanted. These two great resources are much better than any filing system I could ever develop!

[Editor's note] You will be amazed at what the Lord has done in preparing a such mighty feast for his Saints of the latter days.  To see a full list of the books in GospeLink, visit www.gospelink.com/contents.  From the website at Deseret Book, here is a sample of the kinds of books you'll find in the GospeLink.com library:

  • The Standard Works, the Joseph Smith Translation, and the Topical Guide to the Scriptures.
  • Volumes containing the teachings of every prophet from Joseph Smith to Gordon B. Hinckley (86 vols.).
  • Books by James E. Faust, Thomas S. Monson, Boyd K. Packer, L. Tom Perry, David B. Haight, Neal A. Maxwell, Russell M. Nelson, M. Russell Ballard, Dallin H. Oaks, Joseph B. Wirthlin, Jeffrey R. Holland, and Henry B. Eyring.
  • Books by other church leaders: B. H. Roberts (26 vols.), Bruce R. McConkie (12 vols.), John A. Widtsoe (10 vols.), George Reynolds (10 vols.), James E. Talmage (7 vols.), Parley P. Pratt (5 vols.), J. Reuben Clark (2 vols.), Gerald N. Lund (2 vols.), George Q. Cannon (2 vols.), and more. Books by gospel scholars including Truman G. Madsen, Sidney B. Sperry, Robert L. Millet, Robert J. Matthews, Daniel H. Ludlow, Joseph Fielding McConkie, and many more.
  • The writings of Hugh Nibley (22 vols.). Works of inspiration by Sheri Dew, Lloyd D. Newell, Stephen R. Covey, John Bytheway, Ardeth G. Kapp, and many others. Biographies of all church presidents and of other prominent Church members.
  • Conference Reports from 1897 to 1971.
  • Historical works by Dean C. Jessee, Leonard J. Arrington, Richard Lloyd Anderson, Milton V. Backman, Susan Easton Black, Susan Arrington Madsen, Carol Cornwall Madsen, Lyndon W. Cook, James B. Allen, and many others.
  • The Journal of Discourses (26 vols.) and The Collected Discourses (5 vols.). Church periodicals spanning over 130 years including the Evening and Morning Star, Messenger and Advocate, Times and Seasons, Millennial Star, Contributor, Improvement Era, Church News, BYU Studies, and Journal of Book of Mormon Studies. Reports from several BYU Women's Conferences and Sperry Symposia.
  • Relevant works by non-LDS authors including Louis Ginzberg, Alfred Edersheim, Flavius Josephus, Frederic Farrar, Edward Gibbon, John Foxe, John Bunyan, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Aristotle, Plato, and many more. American history documents including the Declaration of Independence, U. S. Constitution, and speeches and writings of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, and more.
  • New and Old Testament apocrypha and pseudepigrapha (including the King James Version Old Testament Apocrypha).
    A collection of early Christian writings including works by Origen, Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria, Papias, Ignatius, Irenaeus, Clement of Rome, Hegesippus, Tatian, Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, and many others.
  • Reference works including the Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Webster's 1828 Dictionary of American English, Smith's Bible Dictionary, and more.

Come to the feast of the Lord!  If you would like to try Gospelink.com, a one month subscription is available for $3.99. You really don't want to miss out on the tremendous wealth of gospel knowledge that exists - literally at your fingertips. Visit www.gospelink.com today. 

Meet the author...
Paul Savage is a dedicated seminary teacher and gospel scholar.  He lives in California with his wife and five children. He is an independent business consultant who specializes in executive coaching and personnel development.