famine

176:1.1In an­swer­ing Na­than­iel’s ques­tion, Je­sus said: “Yes, I will tell you about the times when this peo­ple shall have filled up the cup of their in­iq­uity; when jus­tice shall swiftly de­scend upon this city of our fa­thers. I am about to leave you; I go to the Fa­ther. Af­ter I leave you, take heed that no man de­ceive you, for many will come as de­liv­er­ers and will lead many astray. When you hear of wars and ru­mors of wars, be not trou­bled, for though all these things will hap­pen, the end of Je­ru­sa­lem is not yet at hand. You should not be per­turbed by famines or earth­quakes; nei­ther should you be con­cerned when you are de­liv­ered up to the civil au­thor­i­ties and are per­se­cuted for the sake of the gospel. You will be thrown out of the syn­a­gogue and put in prison for my sake, and some of you will be killed. When you are brought up be­fore gov­er­nors and rulers, it shall be for a tes­ti­mony of your faith and to show your stead­fast­ness in the gospel of the king­dom. And when you stand be­fore judges, be not anx­ious be­fore­hand as to what you should say, for the spirit will teach you in that very hour what you should an­swer your ad­ver­saries. In these days of tra­vail, even your own kins­folk, un­der the lead­er­ship of those who have re­jected the Son of Man, will de­liver you up to prison and death. For a time you may be hated by all men for my sake, but even in these per­se­cu­tions I will not for­sake you; my spirit will not desert you. Be pa­tient! doubt not that this gospel of the king­dom will tri­umph over all en­e­mies and, even­tu­ally, be pro­claimed to all na­tions.”

169:1.8“One day, when he was very hun­gry, he came to him­self and said: ‘How many hired ser­vants of my fa­ther have bread enough and to spare while I per­ish with hunger, feed­ing swine off here in a for­eign coun­try! I will arise and go to my fa­ther, and I will say to him: Fa­ther, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no more wor­thy to be called your son; only be will­ing to make me one of your hired ser­vants.’ And when the young man had reached this de­ci­sion, he arose and started out for his fa­ther’s house.

66:5.3Great ad­vances were made in meth­ods of food stor­age. Food was pre­served by cook­ing, dry­ing, and smok­ing; it thus be­came the ear­li­est prop­erty. Man was taught to pro­vide for the haz­ards of famine, which pe­ri­od­i­cally dec­i­mated the world.