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

1. 1852·John Taylor·Apostle
   Having traced out in the preceding chai)ters,the nature of man, his destiny and parentage, spiritual and temporal ; what his object is in being here ; what his relation to this earth is ; his moral agency ; and shown that God has never controlled his actions ; we will next en- quire a little about the earth ; whose right it is to govern it ; and who has governed it.
2. 1864·Brigham Young·Prophet
   God is considered to be everywhere present at the same moment; and the Psalmist says "whither shall I flee from thy presence?" He is present with all his creations through his influence, through his government, spirit and power, but he himself is a personage of tabernacle, and we are made after his likeness.
3. 1907·Joseph F. Smith·Prophet
   "We believe that all governments necessarily require civil officers and magistrates to enforce the laws of the same, and that such as will administer law in equity and justice should be sought for and upheld by the voice of the people (if a republic), or the will of the sovereign."
4. 1919·Heber J. Grant·Prophet
   The author of that paragraph wrote those sentiments before the revolution in Russia, but you who have followed the anarchy that followed the overthrowing of the autocratic form of government in that land realize how literally some men have attempted to strike at the sacredness and the perpetuity of family life.
5. 1940·Richard R. Lyman·Apostle
   Since we are living at a time when wars of the greatest known magnitude are being fought between some of the most powerful nations of the world, very naturally we are wondering what the results are going to be and particularly what part our own country will play in this intense and most disheartening conflict. We are all extremely anxious to know whether or not our government is so constituted that it can endure indefinitely, or whether the time is now approaching when government of the people and by the people and for the people is to perish from the earth.
6. 1950·David O. McKay·Apostle
   If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under pretense of caring for them, they will be happy. The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the disposition of public money. We are endeavoring to reduce the government to the practice of rigid economy to avoid burdening the people and arming the magistrate with a patron36 GENERAL CONFERENCE