The Lord preserved land for his purposes
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President Ezra Taft Benson, at the October 1987 general conference, spoke of how the Lord had preserved the land of America for His own purposes. President Benson said:
"For centuries the Lord kept America hidden in the hollow of His hand until the time was right to unveil her for her destiny in the last days. `It is wisdom that this land should be kept as yet from the knowledge of other nations,' said Lehi, `for behold, many nations would overrun the land, that there would be no place for an inheritance.' (2 Ne. 1:8.)"In the Lord's due time His Spirit `wrought upon' Columbus, the pilgrims, the Puritans, and others to come to America. They testified of God's intervention in their behalf. (See 1 Ne. 13:12-13.) The Book of Mormon records that they humbled `themselves before the Lord; and the power of the Lord was with them.' (1 Ne. 13:16.)
"Our Father in Heaven planned the coming forth of the Founding Fathers and their form of government as the necessary great prologue leading to the restoration of the gospel. Recall what our Savior Jesus Christ said nearly two thousand years ago when He visited this promised land: `For it is wisdom in the Father that they should be established in this land, and be set up as a free people by the power of the Father, that these things might come forth.' (3 Ne. 21:4.) America, the land of liberty, was to be the Lord's latter-day base of operations for His restored Church."
