The Church Will Fill the World
Frank M. Thomas (1939– )
- Medium
United States
ca. 2009
Acrylic on canvas
"In Kirtland, Ohio, Church leaders learned about their infant Church. President Wilford Woodruff recorded: 'The Prophet called on all who held the Priesthood to gather into the little log school house they had there. It was a small house, perhaps 14 feet square. But it held the whole of the Priesthood of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who were then in the town of Kirtland. . . . The Prophet said, ‘Brethren, I have been very much edified and instructed in your testimonies here tonight, but I want to say to you before the Lord, that you know no more concerning the destinies of this Church and kingdom than a babe upon its mother’s lap. You don’t comprehend it. . . . This Church will fill North and South America—it will fill the world’ ” (in Conference Report, Apr. 1898, 57).