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“The Lord’s Side” | Joseph B. Wirthlin | 1992

We must choose each day to be on the Lord’s side in thought, word, and action. Choosing the Lord’s side will lead to happiness, honesty, and exaltation. This speech was given on August 2, 1992. Read the speech here: https://speeches.byu.edu/talks/joseph... Learn more about the author: https://speeches.byu.edu/speakers/jos... More BYU Speeches here: https://speeches.byu.edu/ Subscribe to BYU Speeches:    / byuspeeches   Follow BYU Speeches: Podcasts: https://speeches.byu.edu/podcasts/ Facebook:   / byuspeeches   Instagram:   / byuspeeches   Twitter:   / byuspeeches   Pinterest:   / byuspeeches   © Brigham Young University. All rights reserved. "My dear brothers and sisters, I express my sincere gratitude for this opportunity to be with you at this fireside tonight. I bring you greetings and best wishes from the First Presidency and the Council of the Twelve Apostles. I pray that the Spirit of the Lord will be with us tonight and what is said may be of benefit to all of us. I am always refreshed and encouraged when I visit the youth of the Church because of your vigor, enthusiasm, hope, and faith. Your attendance at BYU and Utah Valley Community College, which represents one of the stakes invited to this fireside, indicates that you desire to study where you can learn the gospel while you complete your college education. Many of you are near the beginning of your productive lives. You will soon be leaders and examples to your families, the Church, governments, and communities. I repeat what you have heard many times before: Perhaps you will have greater opportunities, but you will face increased challenges and problems than any generation before you. Your most important opportunity will be to help prepare a people to meet the Savior at his second coming. You will be challenged to live by the principles of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ in the small but cumulative choices and decisions you make each day and to follow the counsel of the Lord to his people as given to his servants, the prophets and apostles. I join with President Gordon B. Hinckley in referring to the young people of the Church as the “finest generation” in its history, truly “a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people” (1 Peter 2:9). If you will be true and faithful to the values and principles you have been taught, you will rise above the “sordid elements of the world about you” (see “A Chosen Generation,” Ensign, May 1992, pp. 69–71). I would like you to consider with me one of the great hymns of the Restoration: “Who’s on the Lord’s Side?” written by Hannah Last Cornaby, born in 1822 and an English convert to the Church. The words of this hymn seem particularly attuned to our time and society. The hymn impressed me when I was a small boy in the Salt Lake City Thirty-third Ward. It apparently was our Sunday School chorister’s favorite song; we seemed to sing it every Sunday. We young children would leave Sunday School singing, “Who’s on the Lord’s side? Who? Now is the time to show.” The words and melody would stay in our minds after we sang it. In fact, I’ve never forgotten it or our chorister. The words of the hymn echo the words of Moses as he called the rebellious children of Israel to repentance after he had destroyed the idolatrous calf they had made. “Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the Lord’s side? let him come unto me. . . . Consecrate yourselves to day to the Lord” (Exodus 32:26, 29). Joshua, who succeeded Moses, told the children of Israel essentially the same thing after he had led them into their promised land of Canaan. Shortly before his death, he called the people of Israel together for a final blessing and warning, much as Moses had done. What a prophet says as he nears the end of his life is very important because he is concluding his accountability and placing the full responsibility for others’ conduct on their own shoulders. Joshua reviewed with Israel exactly what God had done for them miraculously and then exhorted them to Choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. . . . And the people said unto Joshua, The Lord our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey. [Joshua 24:15,24] We, too, must choose whether we will serve our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, or follow the gods of indulgence and sin that clamor for our attention on every side. The Lord has left no doubt in defining his side and where the Saints should be in their thoughts, words, actions, and practices. We have his counsel in the scriptures and in the words of the prophets..."