“The sacrificial shedding of the blood of animals, symbolic of the great sacrifice involving the shedding of the Savior’s blood, was part of the proper worship of God since the beginning. The practice will be resumed, but for how long? President Joseph Fielding Smith wrote: ‘Blood sacrifices will be performed long enough to complete the fullness of the restoration of this dispensation. Afterwards sacrifice will be of some other character’ [Doctrines of Salvation, 3:94]” (Ogden and Skinner, Book of Mormon, 2:212–13).