“I know that it will not be very long before my work will be finished, in the natural course of events. I have had many experiences and have traveled in the world and mingled with many wonderful men and women, and I would like to say that I learned when I was a boy that this is the work of the Lord. I learned that there were prophets living upon the earth. There are thousands of members of this Church who know it – it is not a question of imagination at all – they know that God lives and that Jesus is the Christ and that we are the children of God. He is the Father of our spirits.”

– George Albert Smith, April 1946