War: World War I

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  The responsibilities of the prophets in every dispensation have been to sound a warning for the nations to repent and to come unto the Lord and avoid the judgments that otherwise will be sent upon mankind. President Wilford Woodruff, in a sermon delivered to temple workers in Brigham City in June 1894, made a remarkable prediction and a statement with regard to these matters. A part of his sermon is as follows: We cannot draw a veil over the events that await this generation. No man that is inspired by the spirit and power of God can close his ears and his eyes or his lips to these things. When I have the vision of night open continually before my eyes and can see the mighty judgments that are about to be poured out upon this world; when I know these things are true, and are at the door of the Jew and Gentile; while I know they are true, while I am holding this position before God and this world, can I withhold my voice from lifting up a warning to this people and to the nations of the earth? . . . And from this very day they shall be poured out. Calamities and troubles are increasing in the earth, and there is a meaning to these things . . . Read the scriptures and the revelations. They will tell you about these things. Great changes are at our doors. The next twenty years will see mighty changes among the nations of the earth. You will live to see these things whether I do or not. I have felt oppressed with the weight of these matters, and I have felt that I must speak of them here; it is by the power of the gospel we shall escape (The Improvement Era, 17:1164-1165). He enumerated a number of the calamities which he had foreseen, and then stated: "They are at our very doors, and not even this people will escape them entirely." Twenty years later, as he had predicted, lacking one month, the great world war of July 1914 broke in all its fury. Many of you here have been witnesses of the fulfillment of what President Woodruff said, and from that time to the present time there has been an increasing intensity of the troubles and difficulties upon the earth. He sounded a note of comfort and blessing, however, in his closing statement. Remember this, and reflect upon these matters, he said, If you do your duty, and I do mine, we shall have protection, and shall pass through the afflictions in peace and safety.

  Elder Harold B. Lee

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  • War: World War I

  21 Oct 2026