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Excerpt from The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 99: November 4, 1937
What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? Can faith save him? (james 2: 14) IN this significant passage, James decries the impotency of faith as a merely intellectual perception, and implies the importance of the application of truth to daily life andoon duct. He teaches that faith is dead and useless unless It. Ex presses itself in a true life and true Christian activities. There has been, and is to-day, too much discrepancy between belief and practice, between the proclamation of high ideals and the application of these ideals to daily life and living. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints, accepting Christ as the revelation of God to man, believes that Jesus in His life and teachings reveals a standard of personal living, and of social /relations, which, if fully embodied in individual lives and in human institutions, would not only ameliorate the pres ent ills Of society, but bring happi ness and peace to mankind.
If it be urged that during the past two thousand years so-called Chris tian nations have failed to achieve such. A goal, we answer that all fail ure to do so may be found in the fact that they have failed to apply the principles and teachings of true Christianity.
To every sincere follower of Christ religion should denote not only a sense of relationship to God, but also an expression of that feeling in actions with respect to right and wrong, and obligation to duty.
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