Love one another with pure love of Christ
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"We need to love one another with the pure love of Christ, with genuine charity and compassion and, if necessary, shared suffering, for that is the way God loves us," declared President Howard W. Hunter in the April 1992 general conference.
President Hunter explained that this "love that we should have for our brothers and sisters in the human family, and that Christ has for every one of us, is called charity or 'the pure love of Christ.' (Moro. 7:47.)
"Out of the abundance of His heart, Jesus spoke to the poor, the downtrodden, the widows, little children; to farmers and fishermen, and those who tended goats and sheep; to strangers and foreigners, the rich, the politically powerful, as well as the unfriendly Pharisees and Scribes.
"He ministered to the poor, the hungry, the deprived, the sick. He blessed the lame, the blind, the deaf and other people with physical disabilities. He drove out the demons and evil spirits that had caused mental or emotional illness. He purified those who were burdened with sin. He taught lessons of love, and repeatedly demonstrated unselfish service to others. All were recipients of His love."
President Hunter added: "We are called upon to purify our inner feelings, to change our hearts, to make our outward actions and appearance conform to what we say we believe and feel inside. We are to be pure disciples of Christ."
President Hunter admonished Church members to so "live that one day we will hear the King of kings say to us:
" 'For I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.' "
