Harold B. Lee
“Those of you who have lived a righteous life and die without having become the servants of sin, or who have truly repented of your sins, will enter into the ’rest of the Lord,‘ which rest ’is the fulness of the glory of the Lord.’ (”D&C 84:24Doc. and Cov. 84:24.) To you whose lives may be taken in war and to you who may mourn the loss of loved ones so taken, may I bring you again the comfort of the words of Moroni, the captain of the guard: ’For the Lord suffereth the righteous to be slain that his justice and judgment may come upon the wicked; therefore ye need not suppose that the righteous are lost because they are slain; but behold, they do enter into the rest of the Lord.’ ("Alma 60:13Alma 60:13.)
"Yes, ’if you will take death and sin out of this earth, I will take my heaven here and start in tomorrow morning.’ Such was the remark of a young man who was asked where heaven was located. How true are his words! Here upon this earth, when it is cleansed from unrighteousness, will be the eternal abode of you who are judged worthy of celestial glory. Here you may dwell without sin and without death with the redeemed of your Father’s house and your posterity throughout eternity.
"Youth of today, strive with all the strength at your command to live worthy to inherit this better day. In the years to come as you walk in the cities of the honored dead to revere their memories, may each one of you be sobered by a realization of the final state of man when each of you shall take his chamber ’in the silent halls of death.’
“May you be guided to live each day as though it were your last on earth and be prepared for such a passing into the presence of ’that God who gave you life.’” (Decisions for Successful Living, p. 187)
Harold B. Lee
“It is my conviction that the present devastating scourge of war in which hundreds of thousands are being slain, many of whom are no more responsible for the causes of the war than are our own boys, is making necessary an increase of missionary activity in the spirit world and that many of our boys who bear the Holy Priesthood and are worthy to do so will be called to that missionary service after they have departed this life.” (Conference Report, October 1942, p. 73)