Living in the Harvest Time of the Earth

My dear brethren and sisters, it is a pleasure that I did not expect, to have the privilege of standing here to bear my humble testimony to the truth of the words this day spoken in your hearing — the truth of the great fact that God has set His hand to the accomplishment of the great purpose of gathering together all things in one in Christ—I feel to express my gratitude that God has given me the privilege of living in this day of the harvest time of the earth — a period toward which all energies, all desires and hopes have been directed from the earliest times—I know that God lives; I know that Jesus Christ lives; I know that Joseph Smith was a Prophet of the Most High God—It is a pleasure to me to look around upon this vast assembly and say to you that this is my testimony, and that I know that the work in which we are engaged as Latter-day Saints, is the work of God—Amen ¶