Who can receive revelation? Who can enjoy the ministry of angels? Who can dream dreams or see visions? Who is entitled to know the mysteries of the kingdom? Can we not reason that if God has spoken to so much as one of his children, and that he is a just and impartial God, he then must be willing, on the same terms, to speak to each and all of his offspring?
It is a strange notion that God has the power of creation but not the power of communication. Indeed, as all true prophets have testified of Christ so they have testified “that the voice of the Lord is unto all men” (D&C 1:2). Could it be supposed that a wise and loving father would speak to his sons and not his daughters? That he would speak to the older children but not the younger? Are we to suppose that there is some power that binds his tongue and constrains the feelings of his heart? What parent’s heart could endure the thought of giving birth to children to whom he or she could not speak? Is it not reasonable to suppose that there is no more sublime joy known to exalted beings than that of guiding the path of their own children?