Two of these answers to questions are explicitly signed Joseph F. Smith; the others are presumably the work of George Q. Cannon. They appeared in the Juvenile Instructor of 1905.
Should the little children of the kindergarten [in Sunday School] be taught the events leading up to and culminating in the death of our Savior?
It is a principle widely accepted that it is not desirable to teach these little ones those things that are horrifying to childish nature. And what may be said of children is equally true in all stages of student life. But death is not an unmixed horror. with it are associated some of the profoundest and most important truths of human life. Although painful in the extreme to those who must suffer the departure of dear ones, death is one of the grandest blessings in divine economy; and we think children should be taught something of its true meaning as early in life as possible. …