A Missionary and His Message
Elder Hugh B. Brown
- Of the Council of the Twelve
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📖 general conference
Ten years after his mission, the speaker met the same woman in England, now a soldier, and she thanked him for bringing the message of the Church to her door, as she and her daughters had joined the Church and were planning to move to Utah.
Ten years later I was in England again, this time as a soldier, and at the end of the meeting a lady came up with two grown daughters. She said, "I do thank God and thank you that you came to my door with that message many years ago. I and my daughters joined the Church and we are going to Utah in a short time, and we thank God that you had the courage, the fortitude, and the faith to come to me with that divine message and to leave it with me in the name of the Lord."
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A Missionary Opportunity
Elder Carlos E. Asay
- Of the First Quorum of the Seventy
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The speaker recounts a meeting with a Protestant minister who sought advice on missionary work due to his own reluctance to accept a mission call, and the speaker explained the success of the LDS missionary program.
As I elaborate a bit on my testimony, perhaps an experience might help. While serving as a mission president, I had occasion to discuss the gospel and to discuss missionary work with a Protestant minister. He was troubled because he had received a call to preside over a mission for his church, and because he had had a prior poor experience, he was seeking help. He came to my office in Dallas and said that he really didn"™t want to accept the mission call, but he felt he had to. He said he knew ... (continued)
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A Modern Sacrifice
Elder Theodore M. Burton
- Assistant to the Council of the Twelve Apostles
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📖 general conference
Jesus explains the scriptures concerning himself to the two followers on the road to Emmaus.
Then Jesus said to them: 'O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.'
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A Modern Sacrifice
Elder Theodore M. Burton
- Assistant to the Council of the Twelve Apostles
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📖 general conference
Paul teaches about the resurrection and that Christ's death allows all to be made alive again.
Jesus died for all men, that all men might be made alive again as taught by Paul: 'But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.'
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A Modern Sacrifice
Elder Theodore M. Burton
- Assistant to the Council of the Twelve Apostles
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📖 general conference
Jesus gave his ministry the charge to teach all nations and baptize them, promising to be with them always.
This doctrine was to extend worldwide and be valid throughout all time as shown by the charge Jesus gave his ordained ministry: 'Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.'
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A Modern Sacrifice
Elder Theodore M. Burton
- Assistant to the Council of the Twelve Apostles
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📖 general conference
Paul uses the practice of baptism for the dead as evidence of the resurrection, questioning why it would be done if the dead do not rise.
That this practice was used by the early Christians is made clearly evident when Paul used this ordinance work as an additional evidence of the actuality of the resurrection from the dead, for Paul argued: 'Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?'
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A Modern Sacrifice
Elder Theodore M. Burton
- Assistant to the Council of the Twelve Apostles
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📖 general conference
Peter teaches about the mercy of Jesus and the need for repentance and keeping the covenant with God.
Peter referred to the mercy of Jesus for the individual person. Even a person's personal sins could be forgiven in mercy, if he would fully repent, turn from his sinful ways, and keep the covenant with God to become his child through Jesus Christ.
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A Modern Sacrifice
Elder Theodore M. Burton
- Assistant to the Council of the Twelve Apostles
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📖 general conference
Two followers of Jesus discuss his crucifixion and encounter the resurrected Lord on the road to Emmaus, but do not recognize him.
Following the resurrection of Jesus, two followers of Jesus traveled along the road to Emmaus discussing his crucifixion. The resurrected Lord drew near and joined them, but since their spiritual eyes were closed, they did not recognize him. He walked along the way with them, listening to what they said, then asked them to explain what they were talking about. One of them named Cleopas answered him, telling him how Jesus of Nazareth had been taken by the chief priests and rulers and slain before ... (continued)
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A Modern Sacrifice
Elder Theodore M. Burton
- Assistant to the Council of the Twelve Apostles
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📖 general conference
A program was initiated in 1965 for compiling data for temple ordinance work for three generations, leading to spiritual and familial connections.
It was with this personal priesthood responsibility in mind that in 1965 a program of compiling data for temple ordinance work for three generations in each individual family was given to the priesthood of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This program has been continued into 1966 for those who did not complete this work. By following this program themselves, the priesthood can lead the members of the whole Church into a charitable work for themselves, their families and their imm ... (continued)
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A Modern Sacrifice
Elder Theodore M. Burton
- Assistant to the Council of the Twelve Apostles
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The three-generation program is a step towards fulfilling the prophecy related to Elijah's return and the turning of hearts of the children to their fathers.
This three-generation program is the first practical step in compiling a record that each individual family must present as its sacrifice in the temple, as given in the following words from the scripture: 'Behold, I will reveal unto you the Priesthood, by the hand of Elijah the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. And he shall plant in the hearts of the children the promises made to the fathers, and the hearts of the children shall turn to their fathers. If it we ... (continued)
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A Modern Sacrifice
Elder Theodore M. Burton
- Assistant to the Council of the Twelve Apostles
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📖 general conference
The compilation of family records for temple work is an individual responsibility that leads to spiritual growth and family unity.
The compilation of an individual family record is a duty of such sacred importance that it cannot be wholly entrusted to others to do for us. We cannot just hope that an aunt or an uncle or a cousin will do this work for the whole family. Relatives and friends can help and assist us. All members of the family should help one another in assembling this information and passing it on to others. The responsibility for compiling a record for our own family, however, rests with each one of us in our i ... (continued)
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A More Excellent Way
President Howard W. Hunter
- President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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📖 general conference
Joseph Smith taught the Saints in Nauvoo to love others, including enemies, and to cultivate friendship and unity.
In an important message to the Latter-day Saints in Nauvoo just one year before his tragic and untimely martyrdom, the Prophet Joseph Smith said: “If we would secure and cultivate the love of others, we must love others, even our enemies as well as friends. … Christians should cease wrangling and contending with each other, and cultivate the principles of union and friendship in their midst.†(History of the Church,5:498–99.)
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A More Excellent Way
Elder Robert E. Sackley
- Of the First Quorum of the Seventy
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📖 general conference
The speaker reflects on the conversion of the great prophet Alma, who repented of his sins and was redeemed by the Lord, becoming born of the Spirit.
The great prophet Alma, speaking of his own life and his conversion, said: "I have repented of my sins, and have been redeemed of the Lord; behold I am born of the Spirit.
"And the Lord said unto me: Marvel not that all mankind, yea, men and women, all nations, kindreds, tongues and people, must be born again; yea, born of God, changed from their carnal and fallen state, to a state of righteousness, being redeemed of God, becoming his sons and daughters;
"And thus they become new creatures; and ... (continued)
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A More Excellent Way
Elder Robert E. Sackley
- Of the First Quorum of the Seventy
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The speaker cites King Benjamin's teachings about the natural man being an enemy to God and the need to become a saint through the atonement of Christ.
I believe we ought to remember what King Benjamin said so long ago. He said:
"For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a chil ... (continued)
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A More Excellent Way
Elder Robert E. Sackley
- Of the First Quorum of the Seventy
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📖 general conference
The speaker shares a personal anecdote about how his life was changed more than forty years ago when he read the Book of Mormon, which has profoundly influenced him.
I also want you to know that my life was changed more than forty years ago as I read the Book of Mormon. There is nothing on earth that has influenced me more profoundly than my testimony of this sacred record and the work to which it belongs. It has burned within my soul over the years with ever-increasing brightness, and I find great joy and satisfaction in walking in "newness of life" in my search for the "more excellent way."
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A More Excellent Way
President Howard W. Hunter
- President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
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Vern Crowley learned a lesson of love when his father, despite being ill, taught him to show kindness to a young thief caught stealing from their family wrecking yard.
As a young man, Brother Vern Crowley said he learned something of the crucial lesson the Prophet Joseph had taught the early Saints in Nauvoo when he told them to “love others, even our enemies as well as friends.†This is a good lesson for each of us.
After his father became ill, Vern Crowley took responsibility for running the family wrecking yard although he was only fifteen years of age. Some customers occasionally took unfair advantage of the young man, and parts were disappeari ... (continued)
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A Most Vital Principle"”Marriage
Elder Joseph Fielding Smith
- Of the Council of the Twelve Apostles
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Brigham Young counsels members on the importance of marrying within the Church and the consequences of not doing so, emphasizing the eternal nature of such marriages and the blessings for children born within them.
President Brigham Young, in giving a counsel to the members of the Church said:
When a man and woman have received their endowments and sealings, and then had children
born to them afterwards, those children are legal heirs to the kingdom and to all its blessings
and promises, and they are the only ones that are on this earth. There is not a young man in
our community who would not be willing to travel from here to England to be married right,
if he understood things as they are; there is not a ... (continued)
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A Most Vital Principle"”Marriage
Elder Joseph Fielding Smith
- Of the Council of the Twelve Apostles
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Joseph F. Smith expresses his preference for marrying within the Church and the new and everlasting covenant, warning of the grief that often comes when members marry outside the Church.
Now this from President Joseph F. Smith:
I would rather go myself to the grave than to be associated with a wife outside of the bonds
of the new and everlasting covenant. Now, I hold it just so sacred; but some members of the
Church do not so regard the matter. Some people feel that it does not make very much
difference whether a girl marries a man in the Church, full of the faith of the gospel, or an
unbeliever. Some of our young people have married outside of the Church; but very few of
those ... (continued)
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A Most Vital Principle"”Marriage
Elder Joseph Fielding Smith
- Of the Council of the Twelve Apostles
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Orson Pratt, endorsed by Brigham Young, advises unmarried females in the Church to marry a righteous man within the Church to secure a fulness of glory and warns of the consequences of marrying outside the Church.
This from Elder Orson Pratt, which was delivered by appointment and endorsed by President
Brigham Young:
We cannot feel justified in closing this article on the subject of marriage without saying a few
words to unmarried females in this Church.
(May I pause at this point long enough to say that while he is speaking to females, it is just as
true of males, and we could insert that term just as well as to speak of females, so keep that
in mind.)
You will clearly perceive, from the revelation which ... (continued)
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A Most Vital Principle"”Marriage
Elder Joseph Fielding Smith
- Of the Council of the Twelve Apostles
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📖 general conference
The speaker reflects on the sorrow that awaits those who marry outside the Church, as their marriages will not endure beyond this life, and laments that some parents encourage such marriages.
There is much more here, and you are acquainted with it. I do not need to read it, but I want
to call your attention to the fact that a great many of our beautiful girls and our fine young
men that have been born under the covenant are being married out of the Church and out of
the temple of God. Furthermore, I have discovered by reading the newspapers that the parents
of many of these young people seem to rejoice in it, and so they put big articles and fine
pictures in the papers in regard to t ... (continued)
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