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This devotional address entitled,

What Think Ye of Salvation by Grace,

was given on January 10th of 1984 by Bruce R. McConkey,

then a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles

of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

I think I'll take a text what we just sang. Glory to God on high. Let heaven and earth reply.

Praise ye his name, his love and grace adore,

Who all our sorrows bore,

Sing aloud evermore, worthy the Lamb.

I wonder how many of us are aware of one of the great religious phenomena of the ages, one

that is now sweeping through Protestant Christianity as only one other thing has ever done

in the whole Christian era.

We are silent witnesses of an almost worldwide religious craze that had its birth in the

minds of a few great religious reformers nearly 500 years ago, and which is now receiving

a new birth of freedom and influence.

May I divorce myself for the moment from the mainstream of present-day evangelical Christianity,

swim upstream as it were, and give forth some rather plain and pointed expressions on this supposedly marvelous

means of being saved with very slight effort.

But before zeroing in on this religious mania, it has now taken possession of millions

of devout but deluded people, and as a means

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