“They Did Meet Together Oft to Partake of Bread and Wine, in Remembrance of the Lord Jesus”
No man goes away from this Church and becomes an apostate in a week, nor in a month, observed Elder Melvin J. Ballard. “It is a slow process. The one thing that would make for the safety of every man and woman would be to appear at the sacrament table every Sabbath day. We would not get very far away in one week- not so far away that, by the process of self-investigation, we could not rectify the wrongs we may have done. If we should refrain from partaking of the sacrament, condemned by ourselves as unworthy to receive these emblems, we could not endure long, and we would soon, I am sure, have the spirit of repentance. The road to the sacrament table is the path of safety for the Latter-day Saints.” (Improvement Era, October 1919, p. 1028.)
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