President Benson said the following:
"For
nearly six thousand years, God has held you in reserve to make your appearance
in the final days before the Second Coming. Every previous gospel dispensation has
drifted into apostasy, but ours will not. … God has saved for the final inning
some of his strongest children, who will help bear off the kingdom
triumphantly. And that is where you come in, for you are the generation that
must be prepared to meet your God. … Make no mistake about it—you are a marked
generation. There has never been more expected of the faithful in such a short
period of time as there is of us. … Each day we personally make many decisions
that show where our support will go. The final outcome is certain—the forces of
righteousness will finally win. What remains to be seen is where each of us
personally, now and in the future, will stand in this fight—and how tall we
will stand. Will we be true to our last-days, foreordained mission?" (quoted
by Marvin J. Ashton, in CR, Oct. 1989, 48; Ensign, Nov. 1989, 36–37)
