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10/7/09
“Now in our efforts to teach the word of
the Lord we perhaps overlook the spirit, and we gradually begin to draw away
from the language of the scriptures and give our instructions in our own
language, any language which we believe will be most suitable to the
understanding of the children, until now we have ceased almost wholly to
memorize important passages of holy writ; and I suspect that we have gone
already too far in the other direction. We are too greatly substituting or have
been substituting explanations of the scriptures for the scriptures themselves;
and one idea that the brethren have is that the children and also the older
members in the theological class should drink from the fountain head of
inspiration as it comes to us direct from holy writ, and not depart entirely
from the original text for the information which we desire to impart to the
children.” - Joseph M. Tanner, “Conference Report,” April 1901, Deseret
Sunday School Union, p. 78