Joseph Smith on Naturalism

Joseph Smith

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[The Gentiles] will make wonderful improvements in machinery of every kind, especially implements of husbandry for the working of the land and raising grain, saving a great deal of labor to the saints in building up the kingdom. The Lord will inspire the Gentiles to do this, but they will not acknowledge his hand in it, nor give him the glory … The benefits of all their ingenuity and inventions will be the means of advancing the building up of Zion with greater speed. The Lord will have the glory.

Statement Made by Isaac Decker, Remembering Joseph: Personal Recollections of Those Who Knew the Prophet Joseph Smith, page 466, Mark L. McConkie, Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2003

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