A MIGHTY PEOPLE
God predicted things through the Prophet Joseph Smith
that have been fulfilled. He said that "the Saints should continue to
suffer much affliction and would be driven to the Rocky Mountains. Many would
apostatize, others would be put to death by our persecutors or lose their lives
in consequence of exposure or disease, and some would go to assist in making
settlements and building cities and see the Saints become a mighty people in
the midst of the Rocky Mountains."
Are we a mighty people? We are. 6800 men holding the
priesthood were in this building last night. No other people in the world like
us; no other people with the power that we have here, because we are following
a prophet of the living God, the man whom God chose to organize this Church,
and whom he visited and to whom he introduced his beloved Son. I have met
hundreds of men who have said, "If it were not for Joseph Smith I could
accept your religion." Any man who does not believe in Joseph Smith as a
prophet of the true and the living God has no right to be in this Church. That
revelation to Joseph Smith is the foundation stone. If Joseph Smith did not
have that interview with God and Jesus Christ the whole Mormon fabric is a
failure and a fraud. It is not worth anything on earth. But God did come, God
did introduce his Son, God did inspire that man to organize the Church of Jesus
Christ, and all the opposition of the world is not able to withstand the truth.
It is flourishing, it is growing, and it will grow more. (Heber J. Grant, Conference
Report [October 1939]: 128)
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