The
Conception of Jesus Melvin J. Ballard
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Mary
told the story most beautifully...Referring to the event, she said:
"God hath done wonderful things unto me." And the Holy Ghost
came upon her, is the story, and she came into the presence of the highest.
No man or woman can live in mortality and survive the presence of the
Highest except by the sustaining power of the Holy Ghost. So it came
upon her to prepare her for admittance into the divine presence, and
the power of the Highest, who is the Father, was present, and overshadowed
her, and that holy child that was born of her was called the Son of
God...The power of creation...It is the most sacred and holy and divine
function with which God has endowed man. Made holy, it is retained by
the Father of us all, and in his exercise of that great and marvelous
creative power and function he did not debase himself, nor debauch his
daughter. Thus Christ became the literal Son of a divine Father, and
no one else was worthy to be his father. (Melvin J. Ballard, The Deseret News, Dec. 23, 1923) |
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1 Nephi 11-12 |
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