“The Power of God Was with Them”

(Conference Report, Apr. 1952, p. 52 )

[President Benson quoting Wilford Woodruff] “‘I am going to bear my testimony to this assembly, if I never do it again in my life, that those men who laid the foundation of this American Government … were the best spirits the God of Heaven could find on the face of the earth. They were choice spirits, not wicked men. General Washington and all the men that labored for the purpose were inspired of the Lord’ (Journal of Discourses, Sept. 16, 1898, p. 89). [Pres. Benson then added his own testimony] Yes, our nation’s foundation is spiritual. Without spirituality, we are no better than any of the other nations which have sunk into oblivion.” (Ezra Taft Benson, Righteousness Exalteth a Nation, p. 4)