'A labor to perform'
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In an October 1987 general conference address, President Ezra Taft Benson taught: "In a final letter recorded in the Book of Mormon from Mormon to his son Moroni, he gave counsel that applies to our day. Both father and son were seeing a whole Christian civilization fall because its people would not serve the God of the land, even Jesus Christ.
"Mormon wrote, 'And now, my beloved son, notwithstanding their hardness, let us labor diligently; for if we should cease to labor, we should be brought under condemnation; for we have a labor to perform whilst in this tabernacle of clay, that we may conquer the enemy of all righteousness, and rest our souls in the kingdom of God.' (Moroni 9:6.) You and I have a similar labor to perform now — to conquer the enemy and rest our souls in the kingdom.
"Then that great soul Mormon closes his letter to his beloved son, Moroni, with these words: 'My son, be faithful in Christ; and may not the things which I have written grieve thee, to weigh thee down unto death; but may Christ lift thee up, and may his sufferings and death, and the showing his body unto our fathers, and his mercy and long-suffering, and the hope of his glory and eternal life, rest in your mind forever.'
"My prayer for each of us is that we too will follow that inspired counsel: 'Be faithful in Christ.' Then He will lift us up and His grace will be and abide with us forever."
