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(1/26/02)
"Even in those early years I somehow grasped the idea that I
alone must work out my salvation, and that I could not blame anyone else if I
didn't. Today I cannot identify the exact teaching of this principle, but I
suspect that it came from those testimonies I heard in the Second Ward, the
Sunday School class, my parents, and the repetition of the second Article of
Faith [
A of F 1:2 ], which I repeated
many times in that day. This article states: 'We believe that men will be
punished for their own sins, and not for Adam's transgression.'" — S. Dilworth
Young, " He Hath Showed Thee, O Man, What
Is Good
," "Ensign," Nov. 1978, p. 64
(1/3/05)
"We know how to go out to teach. We know how to find people
and how to cultivate their interest. We know how to apply sound teaching
methods. All we need to do now is for each of us to become converted, to arise
and go forth in the power of our knowledge and by the Spirit. Truly the
admonition of the Lord to Peter, 'and when thou art converted, strengthen thy
brethren,' is happening today. As the Holy Ghost descended upon Peter and his
associates at Pentecost, so has this divine gift been given freely to us. We
have had, ever since 1830, the power of the Holy Ghost guiding and strengthening
our leaders and loyal members. The gospel has been carried through the fervent
witness of untiring missionaries and members until we now have organized units
of the Church in more than two-thirds of the countries throughout the world, but
there are uncounted millions yet to hear." - S. Dilworth Young, "
When Thou Art
Converted
," Ensign, June 1971, p. 40
(2/11/05)
"We may be sure that if there are many children or invalids or aged in a
home, it is almost a certainty that such homes need help. O ye saints, do not
pine if you have not presidency or teaching positions. Be anxiously engaged in a
good cause, and do many things of your own free will. You may come nearer your
heaven by the unobtrusive help you render those standing in need of comfort,
succor, and attention. You won't feel important to the organization, but the
angels will be smiling as they record the hours of church service given to those
whom the Lord loves and to whom he personally directed his own effort-the poor,
the downtrodden, the needy, the ill, the discouraged.
"We are all church
workers; those with specific assignments and those with none are required by
revelation to go to the house of prayer weekly to offer up their oblations. We
then renew our pledges to remember him who is our Savior and to keep his
commandments, the second one of which is to remember to love our neighbors as we
love ourselves. Having entered into this covenant, it is our responsibility to
seek diligently to show this love through our deeds." - S. Dilworth Young,
"
By Love, Serve One
Another
," Ensign, Dec. 1971, p.
67
12/9/07
"With awe we contemplate the
perfection of this Firstborn of God, his power, his glory. Ours is more than the
simple act of worship as an end. We testify that his purpose and mission are to
make it possible for us to come into his presence, be like him, and share his
honor and his glory forever. He said, '...this is my work and my glory-to bring
to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.' (Moses
1:39.)" - S. Dilworth Young, "Conference Report," April
1969, Afternoon Meeting, p.78
2/14/09
"Many of us know what it is
to suffer physically for ourselves, and we suffer mentally and emotionally for
our friends and loved ones in their sorrows and afflictions. I am not capable of
fully understanding the suffering of this great firstborn Son of God for the
sins of the world. We call it Gethsemane. He gave us agency and then, knowing
all would sin to a greater or lesser degree, took the responsibility on himself
of paying the price of the atonement for our sins, provided we would repent and
follow him and his teachings. I find peace in doing what he said to do. When he
said: 'Peace I leave with you, my peace
I give unto you' (John 14:27), he meant
what he said. Someday I hope to be able to understand better. I know the peace I
can have if I will keep his law and abide in his commandments."
- S. Dilworth Young, "When I Read, I Am There," Ensign (CR), July 1973,
p.113
6/7/10
"May I conclude by reminding you of
the first thing that I said, things 'seen and heard.' How necessary it
is for a parent to bear that witness! I have an aged great-grandmother,
long since dead, who in her ninety-seventh year was approached by one
who had lost faith, and thinking perhaps that the grandmother, too, had
lost some, said to her, 'You knew the Prophet. What did you think of
him?' This aged woman had endured the vicissitudes of the seventies'
trek from Kirtland to Missouri, had suffered through Haun's Mill with
her infant child in her arms, had counted the long miles across the
plains, and then had lived through years of poverty in Utah. She smiled
as she looked at this person, and I think disappointed the person, too,
because this is what she said: 'We all knew that he was a Prophet.'" -
S. Dilworth Young, "Conference Report," October 1956, Afternoon
Meeting, p. 69
