Rulon S. Wells First Council of the Seventy (April 5, 1893 – May 7, 1941) General Conference Addresses April 1941 General Conference The Plan of Salvation “No man can ever say that he did an evil thing because he had to do it, for if he had to do it there would be no evil…

Rufus K. Hardy First Council of the Seventy (October 6, 1934 – March 7, 1945) General Conference Addresses October 1943 General Conference The Government and Growth of the Church “I am fully aware that we perhaps are the best paid board of directors that God has on earth, and if each one of us were…

Samuel O. Bennion First Council of the Seventy (April 6, 1933 – March 8, 1945) General Conference Addresses October 1944 General Conference Spiritual Crops “The plan of God is here to fertilize the spiritual fields of the Church. As the land has produced more since the membership of the Church began to till it, as…

John H. Taylor First Council of the Seventy (October 6, 1933 – May 28, 1946) General Conference Addresses October 1945 General Conference Home “Someday, brethren and sisters, we will all have another home to go to. We are building it as we live our lives on the earth. I trust that we won’t be disappointed…

Nicholas G. Smith Assistant to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (April 6, 1941 – October 27, 1945) Acting Patriarch to the Church (February 4, 1932 – 1934) General Conference Addresses October 1945 General Conference Sustaining His Brother “They speak of peace, but is there peace? When you read in the papers of the constant…

Joseph F. Smith Patriarch to the Church (September 17, 1942 – October 6, 1946) General Conference Addresses April 1946 General Conference Rely Upon the Lord “That, it seems to me, is the key to true education. No man can receive a fulness of truth unless he keeps the commandments of our Father in heaven. Learning…

Marvin O. Ashton First Counselor in the Presiding Bishopric (April 6, 1938 – October 7, 1946) General Conference Addresses October 1946 General Conference Goodbye “There are some people—I am not guessing, I know what I am talking about—that have a thousand cattle on a thousand hills, and if you’d ask them for a thousand dollars,…

Stayner Richards Assistant to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (October 6, 1951 – May 28, 1953) General Conference Addresses April 1953 General Conference The Building Program of the Church “On one occasion a small boy returned from Sunday School where apparently they had been talking about the Darwinian theory, and as he entered the…

Thomas E. McKay Assistant to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (April 6, 1941 – January 15, 1958) General Conference Addresses April 1956 General Conference Kind Words “Now, with reference to this telephone call, it did give me a theme, kind words; I never heard my father, and nobody else did, speak an unkind word…

Clifford E. Young Assistant to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (April 6, 1941 – August 21, 1958) General Conference Addresses April 1958 General Conference We Lay Our Coats Away “You multiply that attitude of sympathy and thoughtfulness throughout the world—and no one is immune; it is an experience vouchsafed to everyone—and you will comprehend…