Lehi, in his discourses in the Valley of Lemuel, made his little colony acquainted with the Gospel of Jesus. It was necessary for them to know this so that they could take its truth with them over to the new home land. For, after all, there is no knowledge, within the whole range of human thought and research, that is of greater importance.
It is his Gospel that has, even in its diluted condition, been an incentive to such progress as has been made. Who has taught men unselfishness? Who has taught us to pray to God, as children to their Father? Who has inspired men to acts of mercy, as evidenced in innumerable institutions? Is there anything that is good, or wise, or noble, that has not come from Jesus? What would song and music and art and architecture be without the inspiration of Jesus?
"Take Jesus from civilization and you change its history, its poetry, its art, its literature, its government, its morals, its religion, and its hope of the great hereafter. Since his death art is purer, prose holier, poetry sweeter; man enjoys more, lives better, dies happier; truth has new significance; life better objects, hope better prospects, and death new revelations." (The Church of Christ, by A. Layman)