“Let me call your attention to this fact which you, of course, all know, that we are living in the last days, the days of trouble, days of wickedness, spoken of as days of wickedness several hundred years before the coming of Christ by Nephi, as it is recorded in the twenty-seventh chapter of Second Nephi.”

Joseph Fielding Smith – 4 April 1952, General Conference Report (Salt Lake City, UT: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1952), 27.