Temple Court

During the April General Conference in 1915, President George Albert Smith said, “I would like to admonish you not to let your political ambitions lead up to make remarks that would wound your fellows, and draw you away from the Church. Whenever your politics cause you to speak unkindly of your brethren, know this; that you are upon dangerous ground.” Then six months later, at the October General Conference, he said, “Though the world may be filled with distress, and the heavens gather blackness, and the vivid lightning flashes, and the earth quake from center to circumference, if we know that God lives, and our lives are righteous, we will be happy, there will be peace unspeakable because we know our Father approves our lives.”