Aug 20, 2026 · 31 min · 9 segments
We can find answers through seeking the Holy Ghost, asking the right questions, and knowing how to proceed when we don't receive answers…
The opinions of men, so far as I am concerned, are to me as the crackling of thorns under the pot, or the whistling of the wind.
I break the ground.
I lead the way like Columbus when he was invited to a banquet where he was assigned the most honorable place at the pa-- the table and served with the ceremonials which were observed toward sovereigns.
A shallow courier present, who was meanly jealous of him, abruptly asked him whether he thought that in the case he had not discovered the Indies, there were not other men in Spain who would have been capable of the enterprise.
Columbus made no reply, but took an egg and invited the company to make it stand on end.
They all attempted it in vain, whereupon he took the egg [clears throat] and broke one end and left it standing on the broken part, illustrating that when he had once shown the way to the New World, nothing was easier than to follow it." Having been privileged to have had some rather remarkable mentors, men who have clearly marked the way, and having had a few experiences that might be worth sharing, I will take the occasion this morning to make some suggestions relative to the matter of finding answers.
Like making an egg stand on end, the principles are quite simple, and if I can articulate them well enough, it will be as though you always knew them.
The opinions of men, so far as I am concerned, are to me as the crackling of thorns under the pot, or the whistling of the wind.
I break the ground.
I lead the way like Columbus when he was invited to a banquet where he was assigned the most honorable place at the pa-- the table and served with the ceremonials which were observed toward sovereigns.
A shallow courier present, who was meanly jealous of him, abruptly asked him whether he thought that in the case he had not discovered the Indies, there were not other men in Spain who would have been capable of the enterprise.
Columbus made no reply, but took an egg and invited the company to make it stand on end.
They all attempted it in vain, whereupon he took the egg [clears throat] and broke one end and left it standing on the broken part, illustrating that when he had once shown the way to the New World, nothing was easier than to follow it." Having been privileged to have had some rather remarkable mentors, men who have clearly marked the way, and having had a few experiences that might be worth sharing, I will take the occasion this morning to make some suggestions relative to the matter of finding answers.
Like making an egg stand on end, the principles are quite simple, and if I can articulate them well enough, it will be as though you always knew them.
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