Latter-day Saint leader M. Russell Ballard honored former Nevada Sen. Harry Reid during his funeral on Saturday in Las Vegas, and said the former Senate Majority Leader was a faithful member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Reid died on Dec. 28 after a four-year battle with pancreatic cancer, according to the Associated Press. During his 34-year career in Washington, he became the highest-ranking elected Latter-day Saint ever to serve in the U.S.
According to a release from the church, Reid and his wife became members of the church when they were 19 years old, shortly after they were married. Ballard, president of the church’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, said Reid remained a man of faith throughout his career.
“In more recent years, we shared a similar plight,” Ballard said. “We each lost sight in one eye at about the same time — he in his right eye and me in my left. We used to remind each other that we could walk down the street, arm in arm. He could help me see things on the ‘left,’ and I could help him see things on the ‘right!’”
Ballard quoted a speech on service Reid gave at Brigham Young University in 2007, where he had urged students to remember that a career serving others means you’re also serving God.
“Of Harry Reid’s religious leaders, many have commented that he was the best minister in their congregation,” Ballard said. “Even during his years as one of the nation’s most powerful political leaders, he always made time to minister ‘to the least of these,’ and he did it one by one.”
from The Salt Lake Tribune https://ift.tt/3naGylz
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