Counsel and WARNING...President Harold B. Lee

I have pulled up these quotes from President Lee...in reflecting over this election...VERY INTERESTING....
President Harold B. Lee - Conference Report - Oct. 1970 - Page 152: "We MUST give HEED to the words and commandments that the Lord shall give through his prophet...There will be some things that take patience and faith. You may not like what comes from the authority of the Church. It may contradict your political views. It may contradict your social views. It may interfere with some of your social life. But if you list to these things, as if from the mouth of the Lord himself, with patience and faith, the promise is that 'the gates of hell shall not prevail against YOU, yea, and the Lord god will disperse the powers of darkness from before you, and cause the heavens to shake for your good, and his name's glory." (D&C 21:6)

On another occasion he quoted a prophecy of President Heber C. Kimball as being applicable to our day: “President Heber C. Kimball, shortly after the Saints had arrived her in the mountains---and some, I suppose, were somewhat gloating over the fact that they had triumphed for a temporary period over their enemies---had this to say: “…we think we are secure here in the chambers of the everlasting hills, where we can close those few doors of the canyons against mobs and persecutors, the wicked and the vile, who have always beset us with violence and robbery, but I want to say to you, my brethren, the time is coming when we will be mixed up in these now peaceful valleys to that extent that it will be difficult to tell the face of a Saint from the face of an enemy to the people of God. The, brethren, look out for the great sieve, for there will be a great sifting time, and many will fall; for I say unto you there is a TEST, a TEST, a TEST coming, and who will be able to stand?”

“Let me say to you, that many of you will see the time when you will have all the trouble, trial and persecution that you can stand, and plenty of opportunities to show that you are true to God and his work. This Church has before it many close places through which it will have to pass before the work of God is crowned with victory. To meet the difficulties that are coming, it will be necessary for you to have a knowledge of the truth of this work for yourselves. The difficulties will be of such a character that the man or woman who does not possess this personal knowledge or witness WILL FALL. If you have not got the testimony, live right and call upon the Lord and cease not till you obtain it. If you do not you will not stand.”

“Remember these sayings, for many of you will live to see them fulfilled. ‘The time will come, when no man nor woman will be able to endure on borrowed light. Each will have to be guided by the light within himself. If you do not have it, how can you stand?” (“Life of Heber C. Kimball, pp. 446, 449-450.)” (in Conference Report, Oct. 1965, Page 128)

As President of the Church: “The greatest challenge we have today is to teach the members of this church to keep the commandments of God. Never before has there been such a challenge to the doctrine of righteousness and purity and chastity. The moral standards are being eroded by powers of evil. There is nothing more important for us to do than to teach as powerfully, led by the Spirit of the Lord, as we can in order to persuade our people in the world to love CLOSE (to) the Lord in this hour of great temptation” (quoted in J.M. Heslop, “President Harold B. Lee: Directs Church; Led by the Spirit,” “Church News, 15 July 1972, Page 4).