A Vision and a Hope for the Youth of Zion

Elder Ezra Taft Benson gives a Devotional Address at Brigham Young University in April 1977.
Elder Ezra Taft Benson gives a Devotional Address at Brigham Young University in April 1977.

In this devotional address Elder Benson discusses some principles and laws of the celestial kingdom and “some of the fallacies of their perverted counterfeits in the world”, which counterfeits include both communism and socialism. Elder Benson warns of the dangers of both of these political philosophies calling them “incompatible with man’s liberty”.

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Ezra Taft Benson was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when this devotional address was given at Brigham Young University on 12 April 1977.

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Ezra Taft Benson
Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
Ezra Taft Benson, Devotional Address given at Brigham Young University, April 1977
https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/ezra-taft-benson_vision-hope-youth-zion/
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