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25 years ago
President Spencer W. Kimball "admonished the students not to marry outside the Church" during a fireside at Ricks College on Feb. 5, 1978, according to the Feb. 11, 1978, Church News.
Speaking in the Hart Physical Education Building to about 5,000 members of the three campus stakes, President Kimball said: "The temple marriage is far safer and more secure than the interfaith marriage in which one of the partners is a member."
The article added that President Kimball "stressed that living a good life was not enough. 'That is one of the two important elements,' he went on, 'but righteousness alone is not sufficient. There must be both goodness and the ordinances.'
"He said if young people realized the importance of temple marriage they would 'go around the world for the sealing ordinance. No distance, no shortage of funds, no situation would ever keep you from being married in the holy temple of the Lord.' "
