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The paragraphs in the index’s own groups, a chapter to each, in the order the index prints them, and in the order of the book within each. A paragraph read in an earlier chapter is named in one line.

icebergs sliding off into ocean 1 paragraph

61:5.8Away from the ice the land and wa­ter life of the world was lit­tle changed. Be­tween the ice in­va­sions the cli­mate was about as mild as at pres­ent, per­haps a lit­tle warmer. The glaciers were, af­ter all, lo­cal phe­nom­ena, though they spread out to cover enor­mous ar­eas. The coast­wise cli­mate var­ied greatly be­tween the times of glacial in­ac­tion and those times when enor­mous ice­bergs were slid­ing off the coast of Maine into the At­lantic, slip­ping out through Puget Sound into the Pa­cific, and thun­der­ing down Nor­we­gian fiords into the North Sea.

prayer for delivery from curse of 1 paragraph

63:6.6“O Breath of Life, give us this day our daily food, de­liver us from the curse of the ice, save us from our for­est en­e­mies, and with mercy re­ceive us into the Great Be­yond.”

young Jesus contemplated 1 paragraph

124:1.8This win­ter and the next were the cold­est in Naz­a­reth for many decades. Je­sus had seen snow on the moun­tains, and sev­eral times it had fallen in Naz­a­reth, re­main­ing on the ground only a short time; but not un­til this win­ter had he seen ice. The fact that wa­ter could be had as a solid, a liq­uid, and a va­por—he had long pon­dered over the es­cap­ing steam from the boil­ing pots—caused the lad to think a great deal about the phys­i­cal world and its con­sti­tu­tion; and yet the per­son­al­ity em­bod­ied in this grow­ing youth was all this while the ac­tual cre­ator and or­ga­nizer of all these things through­out a far-flung uni­verse.