Sermon of John Y. Barlow, 28 January 1940: Teach Children the Gospel in Their Youth; Force Is Not a Part of the Gospel While sitting here
A dated talk by John Y. Barlow from the compiled volume Sermons of John Y. Barlow. This date is not already published as a Salt Lake minute-book meeting or as a separate 1943 or 1949 document. The wording has not been changed. Reported by Marjorie Holm.
I was thinking that the Gospel reaches the children?s ears as well as our own. We hear these things; we hear them in our youth and they never leave us, if you bring a child up in the way he should go. (Told of a man who came into the Gospel because he heard what was taught him when he was a child.) Let us study these things for ourselves. Let us find out. President Young says we cannot force anyone. We must give men their agency to do according to the dictates of their own conscience. That was the reason for the big war in heaven. One wanted to force, and