'Be faithful unto the end'
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At the October 1983 general conference, President Gordon B. Hinckley quoted the Lord's counsel to Thomas B. Marsh:
"Be patient in afflictions, revile not against those that revile. Govern your house in meekness, and be steadfast. . . ."Go your way whithersoever I will, and it shall be given you by the Comforter what you shall do and whither you shall go. . . .
"Be faithful unto the end, and lo, I am with you. These words are not of man nor of men, but of me, even Jesus Christ, your Redeemer, by the will of the Father." (D&C 31:9, 11, 13.)
President Hinckley, then second counselor in the First Presidency, also quoted the Savior's admonition to His disciples: "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. (Matt. 5:48.)
"This is the commandment which is before us," President Hinckley said. "Regrettably we have not reached perfection. We have a great distance to go. We must cultivate the faith to reform our lives, commencing where we are weak and moving on from there in our work of self-correction, thus gradually and consistently growing in strength to live more nearly as we should.
"With faith we can rise above those negative elements in our lives which constantly pull us down. With effort we can develop the capacity to subdue those impulses which lead to degrading and evil actions.
"With faith we can school our appetites.
"We can reach out to those whose faith has grown cold and warm them by our own faith.
"Let us never forget, my brethren and sisters, that each of us is a part of the whole and that what we do mars or beautifies the magnificent panorama of the kingdom of God.
"As our fathers labored in faith with a moving vision of the destiny of this work, even so can we. There is so much to be done, so much improvement to be made, but we can do it, walking in faith."
