“I do not intend to prolong the meeting. I wish merely to say that my heart is full of blessing for this people and for all people – for all mankind. I love the good, the upright, the many, the honorable, the pure in heart everywhere in the world; and the foolish and unfortunate have my sympathy and my pity. I pray God the Eternal Father to help the erring to forsake the error of their ways, that He will help those that are in darkness, to come to the knowledge of the truth and into the light, that they may walk in the light as Christ is in the light, that they may have fellowship with Him and His people, and that He may cleanse them from all sin.

“May peace abide upon the people of God everywhere.”

– Joseph F. Smith, 1910