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Show 65 General Conference Addresses Each six months the Church holds Lake City. in Salt general conference Lay Mormon leaders from various parts of the world attend these conferences to receive instructions from the General Authori- ties of the Church. intended for the public and are There is confusion in However, most of the messages a as Harold B. Lee was televised and general Church membership to whether every word general conference ought are by every as general authority to be considered official. President of the Church he said in well. an When October 1973 conference ddress: If you want to krrow what the Lord would have the Saints know and to have his guidance and direction for the next six months, get a copy of the proceedings of this conference, 20 and you will have the latest word of the Lord .... Difficulty arises, though, when something which appears Presidency statements.2l a general authority to be out of says or implies harmony with official First Nevertheless, Mormons generally regard that The same statement declared 1974 statement urging its members to vote. the non-partisan stand of the Church. See "Use Right to Vote, LOS II Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 4 November 1974, p. A-l. Leaders Urge, 20See al Harold B. Lee's closing remarks to the October 1973 Gener Conference as reported in Ensign 4 (January 1974): 128. 21For instance, Ezra Taft Benson has repeatedly made statements conference which might lead one to believe that there is no way one could believe in social welfare programs and be a good Latter-day Saint. For an example, see Conference Reports, October 1968, He claims that such welfare programs are part of a pp. 17-22. " In 1963, the First "Communist-planned program of deception issued a statement which that declared those "who pretend Presidency to fight [Communism] by casting aspersions on our elected officers or other fellow citizens do the anti-Communist cause a great dis service.1I Deseret News, 3 January 1963, p. A-l. in general •..• |
