“Ye Should Search Diligently in the Light of Christ”

"Mormon's words indicate the need for effort on our part to obtain the real benefit of the Light of Christ. While this gift is given to everyone, we must be willing to let that light guide and direct our decisions or the light will grow dim. Speaking of this dwindling of the Light of Christ, President J. Reuben Clark explained, 'It is my hope and my belief that the Lord never permits the light of faith wholly to be extinguished in any human heart, however faint the light may glow. The Lord has provided that there shall still be a spark which, with teaching, with the spirit of righteousness, with love, with tenderness, with example, with living the Gospel, shall brighten and glow again, however darkened the mind may have been.' (Conference Report, October 1936, p. 114.)" (Clyde J. Williams, Church News, 11/30/96)