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IS IT POSSIBLE FOR THE CHURCH TO APOSTATIZE?

"If Zion will not purify herself, so as to be approved of in all
things, in His sight, He will seek another people;" Joseph Smith -
Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 18

"Does this church want it as God organized it? Or do you want to clip
the power of the priesthood, and let those who have the keys of the
priesthood go and build up the kingdom in all the world." History of
The Church, 7:235

"What would be necessary to bring about the results nearest the hearts
of the opponents of Mormonism? Simply to renounce, abrogate, or
apostatize from the New and Everlasting Covenant of Marriage in its
fullness [Plural Marriage]. Were the Church to do that as an entirety,
God would reject the Saints as a body. The authority of the Priesthood
would be withdrawn with its gifts and powers and there would be no more
heavenly recognition of the administrations. The heavens would
permanently withdraw themselves, and the Lord would RAISE UP ANOTHER
PEOPLE of greater valor and stability. For his work must, according to
his unalterable decrees, go forward; for the time of the second coming
of the Savior is near, even at the doors." John Taylor - Deseret News,
23 April 1885

"Many of this people have broken their covenants by speaking evil of
one another, by speaking against the servants of God, and by finding
fault with the plurality of wives and trying to sink it out of
existence. But you cannot do that, for God will cut you off and RAISE
UP ANOTHER PEOPLE that will carry out his purposes in righteousness,
unless you walk up to the line of your duty." Heber C. Kimball -
Journal of Discourses, 4:108

"Let this Church which is called the kingdom of God on the earth;...
[say] we will summons the first presidency, the twelve, the high
counsel, the Bishopric, and all the elders of Israel, suppose we
summons them to appear here, and here declare that it is right to
mingle our seed with the black race of Cain, that they shall come in
with us and be partakers with us of all the blessings God had given to
us. On that very day and hour we should do so, the priesthood is taken
from this Church and kingdom and God leaves us to our fate. The moment
we consent to mingle with the seed of Cain the Church must go to
destruction, - we should receive the curse which has been placed upon
the seed of Cain, and never more be numbered with the children of Adam
who are heirs to the priesthood until that curse be removed." Brigham
Young Addresses - February 5, 1852, LDS Church Historical Dept.

"When Mormonism finds favor with the wicked in this land it will have
gone into the shade; but until the power of the Priesthood is gone,
Mormonism will never become popular with the wicked." (Brigham Young -
J.D. 10:273)

"When we see the time that we can willingly strike hands and have full
fellowship with those who despise the Kingdom of God [and its'
doctrines] know ye then that the Priesthood of the Son of God is out of
your possession." (Brigham Young - J.D. 4:327)

"When the spirit of persecution, the spirit of hatred, of wrath and
malice ceases in the world against this people, it will be the time
that this people have apostatized and joined hands with the wicked, and
never until then; which I pray may never come." (Brigham Young - J.D.
4:327)

"My greatest happiness, I find in the good will and friendship that has
developed among all classes of people [including the wicked] at home
and abroad toward the Latter-day Saint Church during my lifetime: In
place of everyday persecutions and bitterness we now enjoy high regard
and happy associations with all denominations." (Heber J. Grant - Salt
Lake Tribune 11-22-38)

"Your minds in times past have been darkened because of unbelief, and
because you have treated lightly the things you have received - Which
vanity and unbelief have brought the whole church under condemnation.
And this condemnation resteth upon the children of Zion, even all. And
they shall remain under this condemnation until they repent and
remember the . . . former commandments which I have given them, not
only to say, but to do." Doctrine and Covenants 84:54-57

"Are the hearts of the Latter-day Saints prepared to have eternal life
given to them in mass, . . ? It cannot be done! The sheep and goats
are together; the wheat and the tares are growing together [referring
to the Latter-Day Saints - the Church]; the good and the bad are mixed;
and they must so remain until the time when Jesus Christ will say,
"gather my sheep into my fold; gather my wheat into my garner, and let
the tares, and chaff, and stubble be burned. That is not yet." 4
October 1854, Manuscript Sermons of Brigham Young, p. 331

"Behold, verily I say unto you, the angels are crying unto the Lord day
and night, who are ready and waiting to be sent forth to reap down the
fields; But the Lord saith unto them, pluck not up the tares while the
blade is yet tender , lest you destroy the wheat also. Therefore, let
the wheat and the tares grow together until the harvest is fully ripe;
then ye shall first gather out the wheat from among the tares, and
after the gathering of the wheat, behold and lo, the tares are bound in
bundles, and the field remaineth to be burned." Doctrine and Covenants
86:5-7

"And if we as a people do not hold ourselves on the altar ready to be
used with our means and all that God has bestowed upon us, according to
the master's bidding for the upbuilding of His Kingdom upon the earth,
He will pass on and get somebody else; because He will get a people
that will do it. I do not mean to say that He will pass on and leave
this people; no, there will come up from the midst of this people that
people which has been talked so much about." Daniel H. Wells - Des.
News 9 December 1882

"A people will come forth from among us, who will be zealous of good
works, willing to do the bidding of the Lord, who will be taught in His
ways, and who will walk in His paths." Daniel H. Wells - Deseret News
6 November 1875

"But the time will come when the Lord will CHOOSE A PEOPLE OUT OF THIS
PEOPLE upon whom he will bestow his choicest blessings." Heber C.
Kimball - Deseret News, 9 November 1865

"I know there is a people in the hearts core of this people, that will
arise in their majesty in a day that is near at hand, and push
spiritual things to the front; a people who will stand up for God."
Orson F. Whitney - Deseret News 11 August 1889

"There must be a reformation, there will be a reformation among this
people, for God will not cast off this kingdom and this people, but he
will plead with this people, he will plead with those in high places
[why?], he will plead with the Priesthood of this Church, until Zion
shall become clean before him. I do not know but that it would be an
utter impossibility to commence and carry out some principles
pertaining to Zion right in the midst of this people. They have
strayed so far that to get a people who would conform to heavenly laws
it may be needful to lead some from the midst of this people and
commence anew somewhere in the regions round about in these mountains."
[and this observation was during a time when the Church was still
teaching the Gospel and its' doctrines as they were originally
revealed!] Orson Pratt - J. of D. 15:361

"Before the great day of the Lord shall come, and the day of
righteousness and peace dawn upon this fair creation, two potent
cleansing forces shall be in active operation. The first of these is
the preparation of a choice people, purified by an application to their
lives, as individuals, and a community, of the principles of the Gospel
of peace. Such a body will evolve FROM THOSE CALLED LATTER-DAY SAINTS
. . . and from the remnant of the whole house of Israel will emanate
the nucleus or foundation from which will spring the righteous,
millennial population of our globe." George Q. Cannon - Millennial
Star 42:585

"I want to say to you, my brethren, the time is coming when we will be
mixed up in these now peaceful valleys, to that extent that it will be
difficult to tell the face of a Saint from the face of an enemy to the
people of God. Then, brethren, lookout for the great sieve. For there
will be a great sifting time, and many will fall; for I say unto you
there is a test, a test, A TEST coming, and who will be able to stand?"
Life of Heber C. Kimball by Orson F. Whitney, p. 445

"The time is here when the Saints cannot come to Joseph F. Smith,
Francis M. Lyman, or Charles W. Penrose, or others for council. But
they must go to the Lord and not depend upon the arm of flesh for
guidance." Joseph F. Smith, Salt Lake Temple 1909

"The church is not an end in itself. Men do not exist for the sake of
the Church. The Church is an instrument, a means of bringing to pass
the welfare and salvation of men. . . . In the mind and life of Jesus,
religion itself was a means to an end, something to nourish and develop
the souls of men, to be a joy and a blessing to them. . . . If religion
itself is a means to the perfection and joy of man, how much more ought
the Church to be considered a means to accomplish something good in
human life. The Church is a sacred, divine, and necessary institution
to Latter-day Saints, but even so it remains a vehicle." An Intro-
duction to the Gospel, Lowell L. Bennion, p. 208, 209

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