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A thought from the scriptures

Published: Saturday, July 22, 1995

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Let all the people of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and those who journey with them, be organized into companies, with a covenant and promise to keep all the commandments and statutes of the Lord our God. - D&C 136:2

"Our Mormon forebears covenanted their lives - and not a few gave them," President Ezra Taft Benson of the Quorum of the Twelve said during the October 1976 general conference. "They came - with indomitable faith and courage, following incredible suffering and adversity. They came - with stamina, with inspired confidence for better days. Today we live in a choice land. . . . We live amid unbounded prosperity - this because of the heritage bequeathed to us by our forebears, a heritage of self-reliance, initiative, personal industry, and faith in God, all in an atmosphere of freedom."