Boyd K. Packer
“I have thought that the last phrase, ’every man severally, according as he will,’ refers to the man himself. If a man wills that the gift should come to him, and he desires it, the gift shall be his.” (Teach Ye Diligently, p. 20)
Elder John H. Taylor
“I admonish the Latter-day Saints to seek for the best gifts…Have you a gift from God? If you have not seek earnestly after these things, for Jesus, speaking of His second coming, said that the kingdom of God would be likened unto ten virgins, five of whom were wise and five were foolish, and he said but half of them would have oil in their lamps. What is that oil? It is the Holy Ghost, the power of God unto salvation; it is that spirit that will lead you into the ways of truth; it is that spirit which partaketh of the things of God and reveals them unto the children of men.” (Conference Report, Apr. 1899, p. 62)
Moroni 10:19 all these gifts…never will be done away, even as long as the world shall stand
George Q. Cannon
"[Moroni] informs us that it is the design of God that [these gifts] should continue among the children of men as long as the earth shall stand. And why should not this be the case? We have had reasoning upon this effect this afternoon, and this reasoning is consistent--that if one generation needs the spiritual gifts of God which are bestowed by the presence of the Spirit of God, another generation which needs salvation, and which stands in need of the assistance which these gifts bring, should likewise have them bestowed upon them.
"It is the greatest folly, it is a fallacy of the worst, and, I might say, of the most damning character to assert that one generation needs these gifts and that another generation can be saved without them. Such a statement is the refuge of those who have no faith, or who do not believe that God is ’the same yesterday, today and forever;’ that He does not deal with His children justly under all circumstances and in every generation alike.
“Now this is a cardinal principle in the Gospel of the Church of Jesus Christ. I would not give a fig for a religion that did not possess these powers and gifts.” (Collected Discourses, Vol.1, George Q. Cannon, June 16, 1889)