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10/1/07
"Today is our day, brethren and sisters. We cannot hope,
when the night comes, when the grave has demanded its own, for the development
and progress that is available to us today. These bodies of ours God has given
us for development. We are separated from them when we go into the grave. We are
not ourselves, we are only partial when the body and the spirit are separated.
Why will we loiter, instead of developing that which is perfect, the human soul.
Separated, it is a divided thing; together, it may rise to the most exalted
height. We preach to the world faith. Have we faith? We preach to the world
repentance. Do we repent? Do we place our feet each day upon the mistakes of
yesterday, using them as stepping stones to a higher life, to the new birth
symbolized by the baptism of water? Have we taken to ourselves every day the new
birth of the Spirit? Have we risen to more exalted heights? Are we in closer
communion with God than we were yesterday? If not, we have failed to take
advantage of opportunity offered in the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ." -
Brigham S. Young, "Conference Report," April 1927, Afternoon Meeting, p.60