Thomas B.
Marsh- Murmuring Neal A. Maxwell
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Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball tried to discourage Thomas B. Marsh's
murmuring, but to no avail. A repentant Brother Marsh later said of
that time: I must have lost the Spirit of the Lord out of my heart ...
I became jealous of the Prophet ... and overlooked everything that was
right, and spent all my time in looking for the evil; ... I thought
I saw a beam in Brother Joseph's eye, but it was nothing but a mote,
and my own eye was filled with the beam; ... I got mad and I wanted
everybody else to be mad. I talked with Brother Brigham Young and Brother
Heber C. Kimball, and I wanted them to be mad like myself; and I saw
they were not mad, and I got madder still because they were not mad.
Brother Brigham Young, with a cautious look, said, "Are you the
leader of the Church, Brother Thomas?" I answered "No."
"Well then," said he, "Why do you not let that alone?"(Neal A. Maxwell, CR, Oct. 1989 p. 105; also JD 5:207) |
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