"We are at a time in the history of the world and the growth of the Church when we must think more of holy things and act more like the Savior would expect His disciples to act," said President Howard W. Hunter at the October 1994 general conference.

"We should at every opportunity ask ourselves, `What would Jesus do?' and then act more courageously upon the answer. We must be about His work as He was about His Father's. We should make every effort to become like Christ, the one perfect and sinless example this world has ever seen."President Hunter emphasized the personal blessings of temple worship as one means to help members pattern their lives after the Savior. The temple, he said, is the house of the Lord, a place of revelation and peace. As members attend the temple, they learn more richly and deeply the purpose of life and the significance of the atoning sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ.

"Let us make the temple, with temple worship and temple covenants and temple marriage, our ultimate earthly goal and the supreme mortal experience," he said. "Let us share with our children the spiritual feelings we have in the temple. And let us teach them more earnestly and more comfortably the things we can appropriately say about the purposes of the house of the Lord.

"Let us prepare every missionary to go to the temple worthily and to make that experience an even greater highlight than receiving the mission call. Let us plan for and teach and plead with our children to marry in the house of the Lord. Let us reaffirm more vigorously than we ever have in the past that it does matter where you marry and by what authority you are pronounced man and wife.

"All of our efforts in proclaiming the gospel, perfecting the Saints, and redeeming the dead lead to the holy temple. This is because the temple ordinances are absolutely crucial; we cannot return to God's presence without them. I encourage everyone to worthily attend the temple or to work toward the day when you can enter that holy house to receive your ordinances and covenants.

"May you let the meaning and beauty and peace of the temple come into your everyday life more directly in order that the millennial day may come, that promised time when `they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more . . .

but shallT walk in the light of the Lord.' " (Isa. 2:4-5.)