Throughout the world today there is commotion and a spirit of unrest; and the people, many of them, feel that it is something to their credit to hold radical views, to consider themselves to be progressive, and to make attacks upon things that have stood and have endured throughout the ages.  This tendency is not alone in the political world.  It is found in the world of education, of religion, of government, of business and everywhere.  Men are departing from the well-worn paths, no matter how good they are, and feel that conservatism is a reproach; that it is the duty of man to do away with that which is old, or which has been established, and find something that is new.
    We stand practically alone in the world, yes, absolutely alone in the world, representing the truth of the living God, declaring to all men the principles of eternal truth which do not change.    -Joseph Fielding Smith