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shall need the assistance of the Good Spirit, and of the good feeling
and faith and sympathy of my brethren and sisters this morning in an
endeavor to speak to you for a short time. I do not feel nor design
to occupy very much of the time. I can not express my gratitude, with
the language in my possession, which I feel this morning in being permitted,
under the mercies of the Father of us all, to be present with you and
behold the sight that I see in the assembled multitudes gathered here
in the opening session of this conference, on the eighty-sixth anniversary
of the organization of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
(Messages of the First Presidency, 5:5-6)
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