![]() We still have those kernels, no matter who considers the rest of it chaff. It's worth noting that whatever happens to Miracle of Forgiveness, excerpts from it comprise an entire chapter of current curriculum (perhaps the key word there is excerpts). Other books will replace it and the scriptures are better in any case. To the tender and those more prone to self-incrimination the book sometimes comes across as unduly harsh. ![]() I think the book was intended for the people you can talk to all day long and they still do not get it so President Kimball was harsh. Some you may talk to all day long, and they do not know what you are talking about. You must not chasten them severely you must chasten according to the spirit that is in the person. There are others, if you speak a word to them, or take a straw and chasten them, whose hearts are broken they are as tender in their feelings as an infant, and will melt like wax before the flame. "You may, figuratively speaking, pound one Elder over the head with a club, and he does not know but what you have handed him a straw dipped in molasses to suck. ![]() In his position as apostle and a leader in the church President Kimball dealt with a lot of "hard cases" and saw a rising tide of immorality and a trivializing of sin. ![]()
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