“The Spirit of the Lord Hath Already Ceased to Strive with Their Fathers”
President Harold B. Lee commented on this phrase in the April 1956 general conference: “Mormon described some people, his people, from whom the Spirit of the Lord had departed, and when I read that . . . , it seems clear to me that what he was talking about was not merely the inability to have the companionship of or the gift of the Holy Ghost, but he was talking of that light of truth to which every one born into the world is entitled and which will never cease to strive with the individual unless he loses it through his own sinning” (CR, April 1956, P. 108).
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