You'll want to read this.
I
wrote my Thursday, June 6, 2013 post ("D&C 93:1 [Cometh Unto Me, Part 3] -- Today...You Will Hear God") a few weeks before it was
posted. The day before -- on Wednesday, June 5th -- I took one last look at the post before it went out.
It seemed incomplete. It wasn't starting off right.
I
felt drawn to research the composers I listed in the bullet points. I
read a bit about them, and noted their birth and death dates. Soon, it
became apparent to me that the works of these great composers roughly coincided
with the works of the Prophet Joseph Smith. Hence, I wrote a new
section on that blog ("The Other Restoration You've Probably Never Heard Of").
After I posted that entry to this blog, I received an email from a friend, Yvonne, who referred
me to an Ensign Magazine article. It tells the story of Albert
Roustit, a musicology student in France, who discovered the Restoration
of the Gospel through the study of music theory. He went on to write a remarkable
book called Prophecy in Music. Here is a link to the Ensign Magazine article written by John Green in 1974 about Roustit and his research, and here is a link to Roustit's book.
The
interesting thing is, I never knew about Roustit -- and his discovery of
the Restoration through researching music history -- until after I had posted my thoughts about
it above.
I do love a good confirmation.
"A man can get nearer to God by music than any other method except prayer." (Pres. J. Reuben Clark)
Amen, Pres. Clark. Amen.
I thought of this book during your last posts. I am pleased to see it referenced here. Thank you.
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