TrendZion

Passages drawn from the sermons and published works that carry this theme forward.

1. 1857·Brigham Young·Apostle
   You who understand the process of preparing mortar, know that it ought to lay a certain time before it is in the best condition for use. Now, suppose that our workmen should work over a portion and prepare it for use, and when it is rightly tempered, suppose some one should throw into the mixture a large quantity of unslacked lime, this would at once destroy its cementing quality, and you would have to work it all over and over again.
2. 1909·James E. Talmage·Apostle
   2. Evidence that the apostasy occurred as had been predicted is found in the sacred scriptures and in the records of history other than scriptural. From certain utterances of the early-day apostles it is made plain to us that the great "falling away" had begun even while those apostles were living. The preaching of false doctrines and the rise of unauthorized teachers were referred to as conditions then actually existing in the Church, and not as remote developments of the distant future.--(See Note 1, end of chapter.)
3. 1917·Joseph F. Smith·Prophet
   That was true when this revelation was given, in the year 1832. It is true today, and perhaps these words can be expressed with greater force regarding the conditions that prevail in the world in this day than could be the case, speaking of the people in the day when the revelation was given. I
4. 1930·Richard R. Lyman·Apostle
   That tells you something of conditions which prevailed before prohibition, something of the standards of those who are engaged in the liquor business.
5. 1939·Rudger Clawson·Apostle
   The great majority of Latter-day Saints are making a gallant fight. Some are putting more effort into it than others and therefore accomplish more than others. Surely the second estate is a great school of experience ; a variety of conditions are encountered — sickness, disease, misfortune, disappointment, sins of commission, sins of omission, days of happiness and days of sorrow.
6. 1946·Matthew Cowley·Apostle
   In calling attention to these conditions, and in my comments later, I would not have you think that young people generally do not merit our confidence. It is the few, not the many, of whom we now speak.