“Many voices of seducing spirits advocate carnal pleasures and unrestrained physical satisfactions. Our world is now much the same as it was in the days of the Nephite prophet who said: ‘ … if it were not for the prayers of the righteous … ye would even now be visited with utter destruction… .’ (Alma 10:22.) Of course, there are many upright and faithful who live all the commandments and whose lives and prayers keep the world from destruction” (Kimball, “Voices of the Past,” 16).