A Book for Our Day

President Ezra Taft Benson

Photograph of President Benson by Busath Photography

"For whom was the Book of Mormon meant? Moroni, the book's last writer, speaking to us said, 'Behold, I speak unto you as if ye were present, and yet ye are not. But behold, Jesus Christ hath shown you unto me, and I know your doing.' (Morm. 8:35.) God inspired Mormon, its chief compiler, to put into the book what we would need in our day."

President Ezra Taft Benson (1899–1994), "A New Witness for Christ," Ensign, Nov. 1984, 6.