“Awful is the Wickedness..”

George Reynolds, Janne M. Sjodahl

A man who is without love for God and all men, especially little children, is of all men, the most miserable, the most deeply to be pitied; he cannot see, nor can he feel, the rest which is in Christ. He goes about his task, day by day, unmindful of God's presence in every experience of his life. The follies and foolishness of the world, absorb him, and as we have noted before, "Crowd all thoughts of God from his heart." There is no peace to comfort him when faint, there is no joy in living. A state of mental hell awaits every move, and in its wake he curses both God and man. Awful is that hell into which he chooses to go. Awful is the wickedness of him who supposeth "that God saveth one child because of baptism, and the other must perish because he hath no baptism." Baptism of little children is a relic of the Dark Ages when men believed in witches and superstition guided the feet of those who sought Eternal Life.

Commentary on the Book of Mormon, Vol. 7

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