Who Will Win the War
Elder Richard R. Lyman
- Of the Council of the Twelve Apostles
📅 April 1942
📖 general conference
Benjamin Franklin's intervention during the Constitutional Convention.
Benjamin Franklin arose in our Constitutional Convention and said, 'Mr. President,' and he looked into the face of the chairman, George Washington: Mr. President, our blood is hot. I see we are not going to be able to agree. It looks as if we may not be able to devise a satisfactory Constitution. I move you, therefore, Mr. President, that we do now adjourn for a period of five days, and that when we reconvene we appoint a chaplain, and I am astonished, Mr. President, that no one has thought of t ... (continued)
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Repentence
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"'Tis Not Vain to Serve the Lord"
Elder Spencer W. Kimball
- Of the Council of the Twelve
📅 0
📖 general conference
A sister questions why those who seem to do the least in building the kingdom of God appear to prosper more, comparing her modest lifestyle with that of her wealthy neighbors.
Sometime ago a sister said to me 'Why is it, Brother Kimball, that those who do the least in the building of the kingdom seem to prosper most? We drive a Ford; our neighbors drive a Cadillac. We observe the Sabbath and attend our meetings; they play golf, hunt, fish, and play. We abstain from the forbidden while they eat, drink, and are merry and are unrestrained. We pay much as tithing and for other Church donations; they have their entire large income to lavish upon themselves. We are tied hom ... (continued)
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"'Tis Not Vain to Serve the Lord"
Elder Spencer W. Kimball
- Of the Council of the Twelve
📅 0
📖 general conference
The speaker reassures the sister by reminding her of the parables and scriptures that promise ultimate justice and rewards for the faithful, contrasting the temporary prosperity of the wicked with the eternal blessings for the righteous.
Then I said to her: 'As I remember, Job in his great distress made a statement which parallels yours.'... And the Prophet Jeremiah asked the same question... And again Malachi quotes the Lord as saying... The parable of the wheat and tares is the Lord's answer... And the interpretation of the parable given by the Lord himself makes clear that the books are not balanced daily but at the harvest-time... Then I said to the disconsolate sister, 'You have many blessings today. For many rewards you ne ... (continued)
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"...Always Be a Missionary"
Elder LeGrand Richards
- Of the Council of the Twelve Apostles
📅 0
📖 general conference
A prominent attorney, after investigating many churches, found that "Mormonism" answered all of his seeking and expressed that the more he knew about it, the more wonderful it became.
I had a letter from a man recently, a prominent attorney who had investigated many churches, and when he found 'Mormonism,' as it is known to him, he said he had found an answer to all of his seeking. And some years ago, in my missionary work, we brought an attorney into the Church. He was an intelligent man. We asked him to talk in one of our conferences, and he said something like this—we had asked him to tell what he had found in Mormonism that appealed to him. He said, 'If you have hu ... (continued)
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"...Always Be a Missionary"
Elder LeGrand Richards
- Of the Council of the Twelve Apostles
📅 0
📖 general conference
A lady wrote to the Bureau of Information seeking knowledge about the Church and after investigating various institutions and churches for fifty-three years, she joined the Church and found inner peace and joy.
I have a testimony here, copied from a letter from a lady who wrote in to the Bureau of Information for information about the Church. She said she had hunted for fifty-three years to find the truth, and then she told about the various institutions and churches she had investigated, and after getting our literature, she finally joined the Church, and after so doing this is what she wrote: 'I now have a serenity and composure and inner strength and an inward joy which I never before possessed. Do ... (continued)
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"...Always Be a Missionary"
Elder LeGrand Richards
- Of the Council of the Twelve Apostles
📅 0
📖 general conference
A young man, after hearing a request to bring someone into the Church, invited a colleague and his wife to dinner, discussed the Church, and later joyfully reported that the couple had joined the Church.
I repeated that request in a stake conference a few months ago, and a few weeks thereafter, I received a two-page typewritten letter from a young man who was in that conference. He was a son of the stake president. He was only there visiting on an assignment. He said, 'Brother Richards, I heard you request each of us to try to bring someone into the Church. I believed that you meant me, so I wrote my wife and said, "When I come home I have a proposition to make to you,"' and the proposition was ... (continued)
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"...Always Be a Missionary"
Elder LeGrand Richards
- Of the Council of the Twelve Apostles
📅 0
📖 general conference
A former minister of thirty years met Mormon elders, realized he needed to be baptized by them, and expressed a desire to share the fullness of the gospel he found with his friends, who now consider him an apostate.
In closing I leave you a testimony of a man who sat in my office recently, who spent thirty years as a minister of the gospel. Then he met the Mormon elders. He said, 'I had always thought I had as much authority as any man to perform the ordinances of the gospel, until I met the Mormon elders and then I knew that I must accept baptism at their hands.' And then he added: 'Brother Richards, when I think of how little I had to offer my people as a minister of the gospel compared to what I now have ... (continued)
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"...and if Ye Receive Not the Spirit Ye Shall Not Teach"
President Joseph Fielding Smith
- Of the Council of the Twelve Apostles
📅 0
📖 general conference
The speaker recounts receiving a letter from a trusted friend and teacher expressing concern about false doctrines being taught to young people in the Church by certain instructors.
About three days ago I received a letter from one of my very dearest friends, a brother who is a teacher and who has been a teacher for nearly a half century, one who sat in the councils of the Church in stakes of Zion and in whom I have a great deal of confidence. He expressed in his letter his solicitation for our young people, and in fact, for all the members of the Church and the need of giving them proper protection and guidance in the teachings that are placed before them.
I copied from h ... (continued)
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"...and if Ye Receive Not the Spirit Ye Shall Not Teach"
President Joseph Fielding Smith
- Of the Council of the Twelve Apostles
📅 0
📖 general conference
The speaker advises Church leaders to be cautious in selecting teachers, emphasizing the importance of choosing those with faith and testimony over those with just worldly education.
That remark of his I fully endorse, and so I am expressing these thoughts particularly to our bishops, presidents of stakes, superintendents of Sunday Schools and Mutuals, and those who have charge of priesthood quorums, and the other organizations of the Church, to see to it that in the choosing of teachers they use wisdom and seek for the guidance of the Spirit of the Lord that these men spoken of here in this communication, brilliant, outstanding personalities, but without faith, are not call ... (continued)
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"...and if Ye Receive Not the Spirit Ye Shall Not Teach"
President Joseph Fielding Smith
- Of the Council of the Twelve Apostles
📅 0
📖 general conference
The speaker references early Church members who brought worldly religious notions with them, prompting the Lord to clarify how the gospel should be taught and received by the Spirit of truth.
In the early days of the Church men came out of the world and received the testimony of the gospel, but they had been trained in the traditions of the world, the religious world, and they brought in with them some of those religious notions. The Lord had to correct them, and he said:
"Let us reason even as a man reasoneth one with another face to face.
"Now, when a man reasoneth he is understood of man, because he reasoneth as a man; even so will I, the Lord, reason with you that you may unders ... (continued)
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"...as Pertaining to Our Salvation"
Elder Eldred G. Smith
- Patriarch to the Church
📅 0
📖 general conference
The speaker emphasizes the necessity of sealing families together for eternity and the responsibility of living members to perform ordinances for their deceased ancestors.
This family unit is so important that the Lord has made it known to us that all the families of the earth must be sealed together. By the time of the end of the millennium all of Adam's posterity who accept the gospel must be sealed together as one family by the power of the priesthood, which is the power to seal earth and it shall be sealed in heaven, and to bind on earth, and it shall bound in heavenD&C 132:46
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"...as Pertaining to Our Salvation"
Elder Eldred G. Smith
- Patriarch to the Church
📅 0
📖 general conference
The speaker discusses the process of sealing and the importance of performing temple ordinances for both the living and the dead, citing scripture to support the practice.
Those who have died without this law may have the privilege of receiving these blessings by proxy. That is where our responsibility comes in. We must first teach the gospel to the living, and then for those of our families who died without the law we must gather their records that this great and important work can he done for them.
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"...as Pertaining to Our Salvation"
Elder Eldred G. Smith
- Patriarch to the Church
📅 0
📖 general conference
The speaker offers encouragement to those around the world, suggesting that they may be in their specific location to fulfill a unique role in gathering records or missionary work.
To those scattered around the world, may I say a word of encouragement? Be of good cheer, be diligent, trust in the Lord, and he will help you. You were probably placed where you are to do a special work in gathering records or to fulfil a special missionary assignment. If you will let him, the Lord will give you success in your work and much happiness in so doing.
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"...as Pertaining to Our Salvation"
Elder Eldred G. Smith
- Patriarch to the Church
📅 0
📖 general conference
The speaker endorses the comments made at the conference and shares a belief in the importance of the family unit as established by God with Adam and Eve.
In the very beginning, God placed Adam on the earth, and he gave him dominion over the fish and the fowl and the cattle and over all the earthGen. 1:26Now this would seem like a pretty exalted position for some people today, but even though he had dominion over all the earth, God said, 'It is not good that the man should be alone'Gen. 2:18and he gave unto him the woman Eve to be a companion and helpmeet. Then God gave unto them the first great commandment to multiply and replenish the earthGen. ... (continued)
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"...as Pertaining to Our Salvation"
Elder Eldred G. Smith
- Patriarch to the Church
📅 0
📖 general conference
The speaker explains the enormity of the task of performing baptisms for the dead and the sealing of families, and the role of converts in this process.
At the rate we are baptizing for the dead in our temples today, plus the baptisms of the living, it is estimated that it would take over four thousand years to baptize the two billion four hundred million who are now living on the earth, without counting the dead. Are there as many righteous dead as there are people living today? If so, how is this work going to be accomplished? It is a task which must be done. All of God's children who will accept the gospel must become welded into one great ... (continued)
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"...as Pertaining to Our Salvation"
Elder Eldred G. Smith
- Patriarch to the Church
📅 0
📖 general conference
The speaker emphasizes the importance of genealogy work and the responsibility each person has to perform temple ordinances for their ancestors, regardless of their life choices.
Then we need to gather all the records of our ancestors that we possibly can. I do not mean just a halfhearted attempt. Seek diligently, constantly, and prayerfully. Do not wait for a convenient time"”it will never come. Do not put it off until old age when we not able to do anything else. We never know what tomorrow will bring, and we must see that the work is done, completing the sealing of each family group. There is no one who can escape the responsibility of this work. We will not be e ... (continued)
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"...by the Name of Jesus Christ"
President J. Reuben Clark, Jr.
- Second Counselor in the First Presidency
📅 0
📖 general conference
Paul thanks God for baptizing only two Corinthians, Crispus and Gaius, and emphasizes the importance of Jesus Christ and His resurrection.
Paul, speaking to the Corinthians, in the beginning of his First Epistle, thanked God that he had only baptized two of them in Corinth, Crispus and Gaius1 Cor. 1:14and he more or less repudiated the rest of them because of their paganism and their unbelief. Very early in his First Epistle he told them about how he felt about this. He said: 'For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified'1 Cor. 2:2 And if you would read in this connection, and I hope you ... (continued)
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"...by the Name of Jesus Christ"
President J. Reuben Clark, Jr.
- Second Counselor in the First Presidency
📅 0
📖 general conference
Peter heals a beggar at the Gate Beautiful and proclaims the power of Jesus Christ to the Jewish rulers.
I recall, also, in this connection, those words of Peter at the time he and John had gone to visit the Temple. As they started inward from the Court of the Gentiles to the Court of the Women, there at the Gate Beautiful, which was the entrance, they came to a beggar who seemingly had been brought there for years. He made his living by what he got begging from those who went in. Peter and John stopped a moment, said to him: 'Look on us,' and he, expecting to receive alms from them, looked up, an ... (continued)
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"...by the Name of Jesus Christ"
President J. Reuben Clark, Jr.
- Second Counselor in the First Presidency
📅 0
📖 general conference
Jesus Christ's life, death, and resurrection are central to the plan of salvation, and He was chosen before the world was to perform this service.
Modern revelation has revealed this to us. I have not time, this is not the place, to undertake to discuss the Fall and the Atonement, more than to say a few words. We know of the Grand Council, we know of the determinations there made, we know that the world was created in order that the spirits from the spirit world might come here and be tabernacled. We know of the placing of Adam in the Garden and the instruction which was given to him regarding the two treesGen. 2:16-17We know of the disob ... (continued)
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"...by the Name of Jesus Christ"
President J. Reuben Clark, Jr.
- Second Counselor in the First Presidency
📅 0
📖 general conference
Jesus Christ's divinity is demonstrated through His miracles, control over elements, and His ultimate victory over death.
You know, I think that all through his life, he gave evidences of his divinity, his divine powers and authority. It is true that frequently other prophets who were not divinely begotten had done some of his works. If you run it over in your mind, you will remember that by walking on the water he defied gravity. You will remember his control over the elements, the winds, and the waves, and the storm. You will remember the exercise of his creative powers, for he created food when he fed the fiv ... (continued)
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