Becoming White
RaceLesson 19, A white and Blessed People:[footnote]Manual for the Priests’ Quorum, Nephi Jensen – Deseret News Press, 1927 [/footnote]
LESSON NINETEEN
A WHITE AND BLESSED PEOPLE
(a) Activity Period: (About 15 minutes.) Prayer.—Roll Call—Consider ways of getting attendance of absent members.—Report of assignments performed.—Assignments for ensuing week.—Social and fraternal activities.—Instructions by Bishop.
(b) Lesson Period: (15 to 30 minutes.) Report of number who have read lesson.
Statement of Facts.
- The Lamanites, because of the iniquity of their fathers, were cursed with a skin of darkness.
- They became an idle and a loathsome people, shut off largely from the blessings of the Lord.
- Prayers have been offered by servants of the Lord for their restoration.
- It has been prophesied that they shall one day become a white and delightsome and blessed people.
- Whenever they have obeyed the Gospel in the past, their dark skin has been removed, and they have become fair and beautiful and civilized.
Argument.
When the Indians or Lamanites receive and obey the Gospel in our day and from henceforth, they shall become as white and blessed a people as any in the Church today. This will take place before many generations have passed.
A WHITE AND BLESSED PEOPLE
For their rebellion and iniquity in hardening their hearts against the Lord and his chosen spokesmen, the Lord caused a curse to come upon the Lamanites, and those who intermarried with them. Before thy had…
