“For Our Day,” Liahona, Sept. 2025.
For Our Day
Thirty years after the proclamation on the family was introduced to the world, its divine principles are more prescient and valid than ever.
President Gordon B. Hinckley speaking to a congregation in Santiago, Chile
On September 23, 1995, President Gordon B. Hinckley (1910–2008) addressed a gathering of Relief Society sisters and introduced “The Family: A Proclamation to the World.” The following are some of his comments on that occasion:
“I believe that it should be the blessing of every child to be born into a home where that child is welcomed, nurtured, loved, and blessed with parents, a father and a mother, who live with loyalty to one another and to their children. …
“The more surely you rear your children in the ways of the gospel of Jesus Christ, with love and high expectation, the more likely that there will be peace in their lives. …
“With so much of sophistry that is passed off as truth, with so much of deception concerning standards and values, with so much of allurement and enticement to take on the slow stain of the world, we have felt to warn and forewarn. In furtherance of this we of the First Presidency and the Council of the Twelve Apostles now issue a proclamation to the Church and to the world as a declaration and reaffirmation of standards, doctrines, and practices relative to the family which the prophets, seers, and revelators of this church have repeatedly stated throughout its history. …
“We commend to all a careful, thoughtful, and prayerful reading of this proclamation. The strength of any nation is rooted within the walls of its homes. We urge our people everywhere to strengthen their families in conformity with these time-honored values.”