A year after their dreams they lived in a more modest home, and their children had learned to live without many luxuries, and most of their old friends spoke of them with the same sort of mournfulness that they used when speaking of the dead. "How they've come down in the world," said their old friends, their voices full of pity and scorn.

Yet this man and woman, these dreamers, had found true brotherhood and sisterhood, true fellowship with the Saints, because for the first time in their lives they did not allow the world's corrupt values to make a division between them and other Saints. They truly believed that all their possessions belonged to the Lord and, through him, to all God's children; and so they used the money the world gave them to bless others. By the world's standards they had moved downward in social class. By the Lord's standards they had finally become full partakers in the work and the glory of the Lord.

And they were not alone. For many people had received the same dreams, had come to yearn for the same freedom and goodness. And when the chronicler wrote the scriptural account of that time, it ended like this:

Where is Zion? said the Lord, Yea, where is the people ready to receive me at my coming?

47. And the people of the church heard his voice, and repented.

48. They repented of their covetousness, and they brought their surplus to the Lord.

49. Those who had large houses gave them to those who had large families.

50. They were not ashamed to go down and live in small houses among the laborers and the poor.

51. And their children learned to despise the rewards of the world, and instead valued the rewards of the spirit, and so the rising generation was pure in heart, and not corrupted.

52. The bishops of the church were astonished at the great wealth that suddenly poured into their storehouses.

53. And they sent forth the money gathered in America so it could bless Saints all over the world, helping feed and clothe and educate a righteous generation.

54. And when the Saints discovered that all their brothers and sisters had their rightful portions of the wealth of the world, and none were hungry or naked or homeless, none were untrained or uneducated, and none were afraid or ashamed, they asked each other,

55. How did this happen? What made us change?

56. Then they realized that nothing had compelled them to change;

57. The Lord had given them no new commandment;

58. The Spirit of God had only invited them to live more fully the law they already had, and they answered with the righteous yearning of their own hearts.

59. Thus they became an ensign to all nations, for although none of them had wealth as the world measured it, they all had enough.

60. And that is the one thing which the covetous world can never have.