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A thought from the scriptures

Published: Saturday, Nov. 1, 2003

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Succor the weak, lift up the hands which hang down, and strengthen the feeble knees. — Doctrine and Covenants 81:5

"Each of us has the charge to be not a doubter but a doer; not a leaner but a lifter," noted President Thomas S. Monson, then second counselor in the First Presidency, in the First Presidency Message in the January 1995 Ensign. "There are those within the sphere of our own influence who, with outstretched hands, cry out: 'Is there no balm in Gilead?' Each of us must answer."