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The True Design and Order of World Government

     Sometimes as Latter-day Saints we have difficulty seeing through the maze of 
personal and private opinions, and it is always a challenge to determine where the truth 
lies in a particular issue. We do not have too much difficulty in the field of religious thought, 
because we are prone to go to the proper standard or criterion to measure things. We are 
not upset about whether baptism is practiced by sprinkling, pouring or dry cleaning; but 
when we get outside the realm of the religious, we have some difficulty. Essentially the 
reason for this is that we do not in these instances go to a central authority. We have had 
the idea impressed upon our minds that Mormonism is merely a religious system, “four 
walls and preachin,” and that it has nothing to say about the social, economic or political 
aspects of life. At least we haven’t analyzed Mormonism any further than in the area of 
religious thought; and if we do analyze it further, we don’t believe it with the same authority 
that we do its declarations on religious matters. Tonight, I would like to talk about the 
Gospel’s standard of principles and doctrines that deal with the social, economic and 
political aspects of life. It is not difficult to measure something if you have a yardstick or if 
you have a standard. But if you disregard the standard then any person’s measurement 
is as good as another. I think we need to keep in mind that there is almost as much, for 
example, in the Doctrine and Covenants dealing with so-called nonreligious subjects as 
there is on certain religious subjects. There is more said there on economics than there 
is on baptism, and there is much there on the subject of politics.