Truth
President John Taylor declared: “. . .our religion, . . embraces every principle of truth and intelligence pertaining to us as moral, intellectual beings, pertaining to this world and the world that is to come. We are open to truth of every kind, no matter whence it comes, where it originates, or who believes it. . . . A man in search of truth has no peculiar system to sustain, no peculiar dogma to defend or theory to uphold; he embraces all truth, and that truth, like the sun in the firmament, shines forth and spreads its effulgent rays over all creation, and if men will divest themselves of bias and prejudice, and prayerfully and conscientiously search after truth, they will find it wherever they turn their attention .” (Taylor 1944, pp. 93-94; Journal of Discourses: 16, pp. 369-370) “The doctrine of the Latter-day Saints is truth....Now, sir, you may think that it is a broad assertion that it is truth; but sir, the first and fundamental pr