... No officers or members of the Church are showing proper reverence for the Sabbath day when they attend picture shows on Sunday, and most certainly that Bishop was recreant to his leadership and to his calling as a Bishop when he announced in meeting that he would begin sacrament meeting promptly at 7:30 and dismiss at 8:30 so that his members could go to the picture show if they desired to do so, and confessed to the members of his Ward that he and his wife had so attended. ...
[Source: David O. McKay, Letter to Jesse W. Richins, as quoted in Minutes of the Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1910-1951, Privately Published, Salt Lake City, Utah 2010]
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