LeGrand Richards
“It is strange, indeed, that so many churches should practice the principle of infant baptism when there is no account of any such baptisms having been performed in the church of Jesus Christ in primitive days, nor any instructions given that it should be done.” (Marvelous Work and a Wonder, p. 98)
Joseph Fielding Smith
"I remember when I was in the mission field in England, there was an American family there…. One evening as we sat in their home, the man’s wife turned to me and said: ’Elder Smith, I want to ask you a question.’ Before she could ask her question, she began to cry. I did not know what the matter was. She sobbed, and when she had composed herself enough to ask the question, she told me this story:
“When they went over to England, they had the misfortune of losing a little baby. They were attending the Church of England. They went to the minister and wanted to have that baby laid away with a Christian burial, as they had been attending the church. The minister said to her: ‘We can’t give your child a Christian burial because it was not christened. Your baby is lost.’ That was a rather blunt way to put it, but that is the way she told the story; and that woman’s heart had been aching and aching for two or three years. So she asked the question of me: ’Is my baby lost? Will I never see it again?’ I turned and read to her from the Book of Mormon the words of Mormon to his son Moroni. I said: ’Your baby is not lost. No baby is lost. Every baby is saved in the kingdom of God when it dies.’” (Doctrines of Salvation, 2:52)
Joseph F. Smith
"…our beloved friends who are now deprived of their little one, have great cause for joy and rejoicing, even in the midst of the deep sorrow that they feel at the loss of their little one for a time. They know he is all right; they have the assurance that their little one has passed away without sin. Such children are in the bosom of the Father. They will inherit their glory and their exaltation, and they will not be deprived of the blessings that belong to them; for, in the economy of heaven, and in the wisdom of the Father, who doeth all things well, those who are cut down as little children are without any responsibility for their taking off… all that could have been obtained and enjoyed by them if they had been permitted to live in the flesh will be provided for them hereafter. They will lose nothing by being taken away from us in this way.
“…Joseph Smith declared that the mother who laid down her little child, being deprived of the privilege, the joy, and the satisfaction of bringing it up to manhood or womanhood in this world, would, after the resurrection, have all the joy, satisfaction and pleasure, and even more than it would have been possible to have had in mortality, in seeing her child grow to the full measure of the stature of its spirit.” (Gospel Doctrine, p. 453)
Joseph Fielding Smith
"Children who die in childhood will not be deprived of any blessing. When they grow, after the resurrection, to the full maturity of the spirit, they will be entitled to all the blessings which they would have been entitled to had they been privileged to tarry here and receive them.
“The Lord has arranged for that, so that justice will be given to every soul.” (Doctrines of Salvation, 2:55)