May I just read to you from the Prophet Joseph what I assume is the
responsibility for the living as well as for the dead. You all know the
language for the dead. You all understand our obligation to seal our
families back through every generation. What I’m not sure we have
understood—in those revelations about work for the dead and baptism for
the dead and sealings and why temples are built—is the language from the
lips of the Prophet Joseph Smith himself about what we’re obligated to
do for the living, indeed the living in our own households, indeed, the
children at our knee who eat at our table and pray at our beside. Let me
give you that language from section 128: Quoting Malachi, the Prophet
Joseph Smith said (I’m in verse 17 if anybody wants to follow):
Behold I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of
the great and dreadful day of the Lord: And he shall turn the heart of
the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their
fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
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