It has always been a cardinal teaching with the Latter-day Saints, that a religion which has not the power to save people temporally and make them prosperous and happy here, cannot be depended upon to save them spiritually, to exalt them in the life to come.
Joseph F. Smith, Sr., Pure Religion: The Story of Church Welfare Since 1930 by Glen L. Rudd. 1995. P.366. Originally in "The Truth about Mormonism," Out West Magazine, Sept. 1905, p. 242
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