Passages drawn from the sermons and published works that carry this theme forward.
1857·Brigham Young·Prophet
Let me tell you one thing, husbands; determine this year that you will stop buying these things, and say to your wife, "Here is some wool; knit your own stockings, or you will not have any: you will have to prepare the cloth for yourselves and children: I will provide the wool, the wheels, &c.; and if you will not make the cloth, you may go without." Also raise flax, and prepare it. for the women to manufacture into summer clothing.
1924·Heber J. Grant·Prophet
I bear my witness to you here today that God lives, that Jesus is the Christ, the Savior of the world, the Redeemer of mankind, that Joseph Smith was a prophet of the true and the living God, and that each man, woman and child who lives the gospel of Jesus Christ shall find life eternal in the presence of our heavenly Father.
1948·George Albert Smith·Prophet
May the Lord add his blessing. I pray that he will bless every one of you fine men, you teachers in the schools, you men in the wards and stakes, those of you who are working in companionship with men and boys and women in different parts of the world, I pray the Lord to bless you that you will not lose an opportunity to help uplift and develop and bring them to be what our Father would have them to be, and they will be your companions, then, throughout the ages of eternity.
1951·Ezra Taft Benson·Apostle
We express appreciation also to the sisters and to all who are laboring in the auxiliaries — in the Relief Society, the Sunday School, the Young Men's and Young Women's Mutual Improvement Association, and in the Primary. Time will not permit to elaborate, but these general boards and stake boards and the officers and teachers on the firing line are rendering to you parents and to the Church generally a wonderful service. God will reward them.
1968·Hugh B. Brown·Apostle
President McKay has said, "Character is the aim of true education. . . . True education seeks to make men and women not only good mathematicians, proficient linguists, profound scientists, or brilliant literary lights, but also honest men, with virtue, temperance, and brotherly love. It seeks to make men and women who prize truth, justice, wisdom, benevolence, and selfcontrol as the choicest acquisitions of a successful life." (Era, Vol. 70 [September 1967], p. 3.)
1988·Ezra Taft Benson·Prophet
We see wise bishops and stake presidents calling you single adult sisters to leadership responsibilities in wards and stakes. We see you in the presidencies of Relief Society, Young Women, and Primary organizations, where your talents and abilities are being fully utilized.
