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dconrad000 wrote: ↑August 17th, 2019, 4:38 pm As sent to me via e-mail from Lundbaek. Thanks for putting this together, Lundbaek.

THE SPECIAL IMPORTANCE OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION TO LATTER-DAY SAINTS.

Below is the Introduction, or Section 1, of a series of 5 articles I have compiled using recorded statements of the Lord, Jesus the Christ, and latter-day prophets that address THE SPECIAL IMPORTANCE OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION TO LATTER-DAY SAINTS. If you find this interesting and would like to receive the following 4 sections, please let me know. I will send them one at a time, a day or so apart, so as not to burden you with a long read on a monitor screen. Also, that way it will be easier for you to share part or all of it with family and friends. I realize this is not a popular subject with most people, although to some folks it is an important concern. I do not want to annoy anyone with this, hence I'm asking you to let me know by reply email if you would like to get the other sections, or articles. It's important to me to know how this is received and how I can better motivate/encourage other Latter-day Saints to have the desire to learn, uphold, and abide by the principles of the US Constitution. In other words, I'm trying this out on you few people first.

Each section is fairly short, comprised of some of the most significant statements by the Lord and latter-day Prophets about the U.S. Constitution.
Sect. 2: What the Lord Jesus the Christ Has Told Us About the U.S. Constitution
Sect. 3: What Latter-day Prophets Have told Us About the U.S. Constitution
Sect. 4: The Constitution is in Danger
Sect. 5: Responsibility of Latter-day Saints to the U.S. Constitution

THE SPECIAL IMPORTANCE OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION TO LATTER-DAY SAINTS
Introduction
In October of 1941 the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints received letter of September 30, 1941 from a William C. FitzGibbon, Defense Savings Staff, Treasury Department, Washington, D. C., requesting that the Church endorse and support the Defense Savings Program. The reply of the First Presidency, signed by Presidents Heber J. Grant, J. Reuben Clark, and David O. McKay, to Mr. FitzGibbon outlining its position in declining the request, a little-known but lengthy and powerful letter, emphasizes a tenet of the Latter-day Saint faith that is very seldom discussed in church now, namely the special importance of the United States Constitution to Latter-day Saints. The following statements within that letter that address this and related tenets are quoted below.

"The people therefore believe that the President of the Church, his counselors, and the Council of the Twelve Apostles have a right to the revelations of the Lord as to the conduct of the Church and the members thereof; that the Lord actually speaks through them as the result of the revelations which He gives them; and that therefore the members are under obligation, when the President of the Church speaks, to follow his advice and counsel."

“In the first place, we should tell you that it is a part of the doctrine of the Latter-day Saints, as much a part as any other tenet of our religion, that the Lord Himself “established the Constitution of this land, by the hands of wise men whom I raised up unto this very purpose, and redeemed the land by the shedding of blood”, and that this Constitution “should be maintained for the rights and protection of all flesh, according to just and hole principles.” Our people believe that they have a special relationship to the Constitution and its preservation.”

"We believe that governments were instituted of God for the benefit of man; and that he holds men accountable for their acts in relation to them, both in making laws and administering them, for the good and safety of society.”

"We believe that no government can exist in peace, except such laws are framed and held inviolate as will secure to each individual the free exercise of conscience, the right and control of property, and the protection of life.”

"Now we have said all of the foregoing with a complete understanding in our own minds that we have said nothing or little of anything that may now be of practical value, but this much we feel we can definitely say, that unless the people of America forsake the sins and the errors, political and otherwise, of which they are now guilty and return to the practice of the great fundamental principles of Christianity, and of Constitutional government, there will be no exaltation for them spiritually, and politically we shall lose our liberty and free institutions."

A draft of the complete subject letter can be read at http://www.connorboyack.com/blog/images/fp_1941.pdf Brother Connor Boyack, whom I met while my wife and I were on a family history mission at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City in 2006, ferreted this letter out from a collection of documents he found tucked away at a library at the University of Utah.

_________________________________________________________________________
Important health and safety information for your loved ones, here:

http://www.drdaveconrad.com/bio.html

dconrad000 wrote: ↑August 17th, 2019, 4:39 pm

dconrad000 wrote: ↑August 17th, 2019, 4:38 pm As sent to me via e-mail from Lundbaek. Thanks for putting this together, Lundbaek.

THE SPECIAL IMPORTANCE OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION TO LATTER-DAY SAINTS.

Below is the Introduction, or Section 1, of a series of 5 articles I have compiled using recorded statements of the Lord, Jesus the Christ, and latter-day prophets that address THE SPECIAL IMPORTANCE OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION TO LATTER-DAY SAINTS. If you find this interesting and would like to receive the following 4 sections, please let me know. I will send them one at a time, a day or so apart, so as not to burden you with a long read on a monitor screen. Also, that way it will be easier for you to share part or all of it with family and friends. I realize this is not a popular subject with most people, although to some folks it is an important concern. I do not want to annoy anyone with this, hence I'm asking you to let me know by reply email if you would like to get the other sections, or articles. It's important to me to know how this is received and how I can better motivate/encourage other Latter-day Saints to have the desire to learn, uphold, and abide by the principles of the US Constitution. In other words, I'm trying this out on you few people first.

Each section is fairly short, comprised of some of the most significant statements by the Lord and latter-day Prophets about the U.S. Constitution.
Sect. 2: What the Lord Jesus the Christ Has Told Us About the U.S. Constitution
Sect. 3: What Latter-day Prophets Have told Us About the U.S. Constitution
Sect. 4: The Constitution is in Danger
Sect. 5: Responsibility of Latter-day Saints to the U.S. Constitution

THE SPECIAL IMPORTANCE OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION TO LATTER-DAY SAINTS
Introduction
In October of 1941 the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints received letter of September 30, 1941 from a William C. FitzGibbon, Defense Savings Staff, Treasury Department, Washington, D. C., requesting that the Church endorse and support the Defense Savings Program. The reply of the First Presidency, signed by Presidents Heber J. Grant, J. Reuben Clark, and David O. McKay, to Mr. FitzGibbon outlining its position in declining the request, a little-known but lengthy and powerful letter, emphasizes a tenet of the Latter-day Saint faith that is very seldom discussed in church now, namely the special importance of the United States Constitution to Latter-day Saints. The following statements within that letter that address this and related tenets are quoted below.

"The people therefore believe that the President of the Church, his counselors, and the Council of the Twelve Apostles have a right to the revelations of the Lord as to the conduct of the Church and the members thereof; that the Lord actually speaks through them as the result of the revelations which He gives them; and that therefore the members are under obligation, when the President of the Church speaks, to follow his advice and counsel."

“In the first place, we should tell you that it is a part of the doctrine of the Latter-day Saints, as much a part as any other tenet of our religion, that the Lord Himself “established the Constitution of this land, by the hands of wise men whom I raised up unto this very purpose, and redeemed the land by the shedding of blood”, and that this Constitution “should be maintained for the rights and protection of all flesh, according to just and hole principles.” Our people believe that they have a special relationship to the Constitution and its preservation.”

"We believe that governments were instituted of God for the benefit of man; and that he holds men accountable for their acts in relation to them, both in making laws and administering them, for the good and safety of society.”

"We believe that no government can exist in peace, except such laws are framed and held inviolate as will secure to each individual the free exercise of conscience, the right and control of property, and the protection of life.”

"Now we have said all of the foregoing with a complete understanding in our own minds that we have said nothing or little of anything that may now be of practical value, but this much we feel we can definitely say, that unless the people of America forsake the sins and the errors, political and otherwise, of which they are now guilty and return to the practice of the great fundamental principles of Christianity, and of Constitutional government, there will be no exaltation for them spiritually, and politically we shall lose our liberty and free institutions."

A draft of the complete subject letter can be read at http://www.connorboyack.com/blog/images/fp_1941.pdf Brother Connor Boyack, whom I met while my wife and I were on a family history mission at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City in 2006, ferreted this letter out from a collection of documents he found tucked away at a library at the University of Utah.

_________________________________________________________________________
Important health and safety information for your loved ones, here:

http://www.drdaveconrad.com/bio.html