"Children will listen to anything elders say to survive, and if you grew up without an elder telling you there was a god, what did your parents say to you?"

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In the days of Joseph [Smith] it was considered a great privilege to be permitted to speak to a member of Congress, but twenty-six years will not pass away before the Elders of this Church will be as much thought of as the kings on their thrones.

— Brigham Young