Pretty sobered up by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland's recent CES address as well as Elder Quentin Cook's September 2012 Ensign article. There's a game changer going on, folks... instead of pleading with the members to continue in optimism, they are telling us why and how we will need to be in the future if we are to stand. But, as a quote I found this morning shows, even as far back as Brigham Young, they knew what this day would require...
"Do you understand that what the Lord will perform in the latter days will be done quicker than in the former days? He suffered Noah to occupy one hundred and twenty years in building the ark. Were he to command us to build an ark, he would not allow so long a time for completing it. On account of the work’s being hastened in our time, I have good reason to urge upon the people the necessity of their living their religion every moment—of their increasing in faith, in wisdom, in knowledge, and in power to forsakeall bad habits,—to say to all who are in the habit of doing wrong, of getting angry, of contending with their neighbors, and abusing them with their tongues, and abusing themselves, Refrain from your evil ways.
“We will,” say they; but in a very short time many are engaged in their former evil practices, like the child’s whittling the furniture.
It appears as though such persons were glued to the world, and will love and worship it. When they learn the truth, they will learn that it is a folly for a man to love gold and silver, goods and chattels, or any other kind of property and possessions. One that places his affections upon such things does not understand that they are made for the comfort of the creature, and not for his adoration. They are made to sustain and preserve the body while procuring the knowledge and wisdom that pertain to God and his kingdom, in order that we may preserve ourselves, and live for ever in his presence.
Brigham Young JD Vol. 8 pg. 134
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