Welcome to our Sunday Classics discussion: The Mission of Lay Members. We are not exactly sure when this address was given, but believe it to have been, originally, perhaps in 1911. There seems to be a few versions, as weve run into near the same talk under different titles, twice. LDS.org printed excerpts from it as recent as 2009 and titled it: Unspotted From the World. Wordsworth once wrote of Milton, “Thy soul was like a star and dwelt apart.” It seems to me, after listening to the brethren testify to the principles of the gospel and the high standard of living among the Latter-day Saints, that this people “dwells apart,” that they should be in reality “a peculiar people.” I do not mean that we are not to mingle with our friends who do not believe as we, neither do I believe that we ought to be exclusive; but as the Church of God we must “dwell apart.” Now, in what way? James says that “pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world” (James 1:27). It is in the sense of keeping ourselves unspotted from the world that I take it the Church of God should be distinct. … ~ President David O. McKay Discussion Questions: What responsibilities do lay members of the Church have to keep their covenants? How does standing with the Prophet(s) fulfill our covenant relationship with God? What does it mean to you, to dwell apart? #MormonWomenStand
Posted on: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 00:18:09 +0000
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