We are a blessed people. I know of no other people in the world who have more reason to be grateful than we. We have all that the world has in the way of information, education, culture, refinement; and besides that we have an understanding of the purpose of life; we have the privilege of being identified with the Church of the Lamb of God.

We are wonderfully blessed in the assurance that the Lord gives to us of eternal life, and when we compare the information that we have obtained with that which many of our Father’s children in the world have, we are made to realize that much will be expected of us, because unto us much has been given.

— George Albert Smith, October 1930