“[W]e can see the situation in which the world now stands that the eyes of the whole world are blinded, that the churches have all become corrupted, yea every church upon the face of the earth; that the Gospel of Christ is nowhere preached.”

Lucy Mack Smith, Letter to Solomon Mack (Waterloo, NY: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Archives, 6 January 1831), 2. Reprinted in Vogel, Early Mormon Documents – Volume 1 (Salt Lake City, UT: Signature Books, 15 October 1996), 216.