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| Christ Kneels in the Garden of Gethsemane, Photo from LDS Media Library |
“Does it seem reasonable that persons who have lived upon
the earth and died without the opportunity of baptism should be deprived
throughout eternity? Is there anything unreasonable about the living performing
the baptisms for the dead? Perhaps the greatest example of vicarious work for
the dead is the Master himself. He gave his life as a vicarious atonement, that
all who die shall live again and have life everlasting. He did for us what we
could not do for ourselves. In a similar way we can perform ordinances for
those who did not have the opportunity to do them in lifetime.”
– Elder Howard
W. Hunter, “Elijah the Prophet,” Ensign, December 1971.
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