Lucky me--I get to teach a lesson to the young women this Sunday about the restoration. I have been reading (for my enjoyment and interest--I can't fit it all in during the lesson) about the restoration these past few weeks. Elder Bruce R. McConkie gave a talk in General Conference in 1985 titled "Once or Twice in a Thousand Years" and here are some wonderful lines from that talk:
Once or twice in a thousand years--perhaps a dozen times since mortal man became of dust a living soul--an event of such transcendent import occurs that neither heaven nor earth is ever thereafter the same.
Once or twice in a score of generations the hand from heaven clasps the hand on earth in perfect fellowship, the divine drama unfolds, and the whole course of mortal events changes.
Almost always apart from the gaze of men and seldom known by more than a handful of people--the Lord intervenes in the affairs of men and manifests His will relative to their salvation.
Once or twice in a score of generations a new era dawns: the light from the east begins to drive the darkness of the earth from the hearts of men.
Now and then in a peaceful grove, apart from the gaze of men, heaven and earth share a moment of intimacy, and neither is ever thereafter the same. Such a moment occurred on that beautiful, clear morning in the spring of 1820 in a grove of trees near Palmyra, New York.
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