Harold B. Lee

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Harold B. Lee a modern day prophet of The Church of Latter-day Saints said the following:

This, our day, was prophesied of as a day when "there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and . . . many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of." (2 Peter 2:1-2.) So the Church of Jesus Christ declares with a boldness that is always characteristic of truth. "We believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God." (Article of Faith 9.) And again, ". . . We believe all things, we hope all things. . . . If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things." (Article of Faith 13.) Indeed, the Church of Jesus Christ does not ask us to give up any truth that we may learn from science or philosophy, law or medicine. Rather, the Church has commanded -- [quotes D&C 88:78-79]

If we will carefully analyze that commandment of the Lord, we will find broadly enumerated many of the studies outlined in scholastic courses: astronomy, the physical sciences, mineralogy, history, current events, political science, law, medicine, world history, and so on through the entire school curriculum. What the Church does ask of us in all our worldly studies are these two things:

First, that we measure every teaching to be found in the world of book learning by the teachings of revealed truth, as contained in the gospel of Jesus Christ. If we find in school texts claims that contradict the word of the Lord as pertaining to the creation of the world, the origin of man, or the determination of what is right or wrong in the conduct of human souls, we may be certain that such teachings are but the theories of men; and as men improve their learning and experimentation, the nearer will their theories coincide with the truths that God has given to His church. And second, that there are, beyond the things we can discern by the physical senses of "the natural man," things of a spiritual nature: [Quotes 1 Corinthians 2:11-14] [Stand Ye in Holy Places (Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 1974)]

See http://www.byu.edu/fc/ee/q_ldsp2.htm for the complete text! Wonderful words of wisdom.

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"[Mothers] should not neglect the cares and duties in the home, particularly in the education of the children. Today I feel that women are becoming victims of the speed of modern living. It is in building their motherly intuition and that marvelous closeness with their children that they are enabled to tune in upon the wavelengths of their children and to pick up the first signs of difficulty, of danger and distress, which if caught in time would save them from disaster." [Harold B. Lee, "Maintain Your Place As a Woman," Ensign, Feb. 1972, 48]

Last update: November, 2006

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