“When we reflect upon the myriads of human beings that crowd the earth in every nation, country, and clime, and then consider

[1] that we are the only people that do really “acknowledge the hand of God in all things;”

[2] that we are the only people that God has chosen and selected to place his name among;

[3] that we are the only people that can emphatically be called the servants and handmaidens of the Lord;

[4] that we are the only people that have a right and claim upon the promises of God;

[5] that we are the only people that entertain correct ideas pertaining to our present position and our future destiny;

[6] that we are the only people that can stretch back to ages that are past, and look forward to those that are to come, and that can act understandingly in relation to our worship and the ordinances of the house of God, having a knowledge of the past, the present, and the future;

[7] that we are the only people under the heavens that have a legitimate right to the promises and blessings of God, whether they relate to this world or that which is to come;

[8] thus we are the only people that understand anything about the present position or the cause of the organization of the world and of man, and that understand anything correctly about a preparation for a future state;

[9] that we are the only people that know how to save our progenitors, how to save ourselves, and how to save our posterity in the celestial kingdom of God;

[10] that we are the people that God has chosen by whom to establish his kingdom and introduce correct principles into the world; and

[11] that we in fact are the saviors of the world.”

John Taylor – 17 January 1858, Journal of Discourses – Volume 6 (Liverpool, England: Asa Calkin, 1859), 162-163.