1912-08—Improvement Era—Place of YMMIA in the Church

Place of YMMIA in the Church

By Elder Heber J. Grant

Improvement Era, August 1912, p. 879

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Referring to President Smith's statement in the May number on the faithfulness of the third and fourth generation of young Latter-day Saints : while I was in New York two or three weeks ago, I had the pleasure of attending a conference of all the conference presidents of the Eastern States mission, and during one of our meetings, President Ben E. Rich said : "I do not know how these boys stand, but having read a statement that the third and fourth generations of the Latter-day Saints are drifting away from the faith of their fathers, I would like each of you conference presidents to tell us to which generation you belong."

Every conference president in the Eastern States mission was of the third or fourth generation. This was a confirmation of the statement made by our Prophet, which I have just been reading from the Era, that the Latter-day Saints are attacked upon false premises.

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