Bishop Richard C. Edgley
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"I am occasionally asked by those not of our faith why it is that our church grows so rapidly, in both membership and activity, while other churches are reportedly declining in both. The answer to that question is simply a still small voice and then a throbbing heart.
"In this busy, tumultuous and noisy world, it is not like a wind, it is not like a fire, it is not like an earthquake, but it is a still small, but very discernible voice, and it causes a throbbing heart. It is a quiet burning within that this is the restored gospel of Jesus Christ, with all of its doctrine, priesthood and covenants that had been lost through many centuries of darkness and confusion."
Three gospel truths that can cause the heart to throb include the knowledge that Jesus Christ is a personal savior with love sufficient to suffer pain and death for all humankind; that a boy of only 14 went to a grove of trees and uttered a simple prayer that opened the heavens and revealed God the Father and his Son, Jesus Christ, as a prelude to the Restoration of the church; and that the Book of Mormon is a divinely inspired volume of scripture that complements the Bible and testifies of Christ.
" ... as members and sincere investigators alike, (we) can know for a surety that these things are true. It is our great privilege to know. It is more than a privilege; it is our responsibility to know. It is our enormous loss not to know when such a privilege is given."
