“Theirs was a tremendous undertaking. Ours is a great continuing responsibility.
“They laid the foundation. Ours is the duty to build on it.
“They marked the path and led the way. Ours is the obligation to enlarge and broaden and strengthen that path until it encompasses the whole earth.
“What a marvelous thing it is to have a great heritage, my brothers and sisters. What a grand thing to know that there are those who have gone before and laid out the way we should walk, teaching those great eternal principles that must be the guiding stars of our lives and of those who come after us. We today can follow their example. The pioneers were people of great faith, of tremendous loyalty, of unthinkable industry, and of absolutely solid and unbending integrity” (“These Noble Pioneers,” BYU Devotional, February 2, 1997).
