"After quoting Joseph Smith's instructions concerning snakes on the Zion's Camp march, a lesson for the Melchizedek Priesthood in 1929 referred to Doctrine and Covenants 49:21 and gave a lengthy quote from 'Taoist Teachings' on animals. The lesson concluded with the Taoist remark that, 'in mind and understanding,' there was no 'wide gulf between any of the living species endowed with blood and breath, and, therefore, knowing this was so . . . the Taoist taught the animals wisdom.'"
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Other Writings of Mormons | Animals and the Church (2003) [Page 86, footnote: In the Realm of Quorum Activity Suggestions for Quorums of the Melchizedek Priesthood (Independence, Mo.: Zion's Printing and Publishing Co., 1929), 78-9.]
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