“One man I know of was called to a position of service in
the Church, but he felt that he couldn’t accept because his investments required
more . . . of his time than he could spare for the Lord’s work. He left the
service of the Lord in search of Mammon, and he is a millionaire today.
“But I recently learned an interesting fact: If a man owns a
million dollars worth of gold . . . , he possesses approximately one
27-billionth of all the gold that is present in the earth’s thin crust alone.
This is an amount so small in proportion as to be inconceivable to the mind of
man. But there is more to this: The Lord who created and has power over all the
earth created many other earths as well, even “worlds without number” (Moses
1:33); and when this man received the oath and covenant of the priesthood (see
D&C 84:33-34), he received a promise from the Lord of “all that my Father
hath” (D&C 84: 38). To set aside all these great promises in favor of a
chest of gold and a sense of carnal security is a mistake in perspective of
colossal proportions. To think that he has settled for so little is a saddening
and pitiful prospect indeed; the souls of men are for more precious than this.”
President Spencer W. Kimball, “Worship the True and Living
God,” Ensign, June 2013, 10-11.
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