Blood Atonement as Taught by Leading Elders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - An Address Delivered in the Twelfth Ward Assembly Hall, Salt Lake City, Oct, 12th, 1884 #229387

But there is one good that arises out of these per sistent attacks upon us, and that is, it develops our powers. We are placed continually on the defensive; we are never let alone; we are all the time stirred to action. This is good for us. It causes us to think and to investigate for ourselves the principles of our holy religion, and to prepare ourselves to defend those principles before all mankind. This develops life among this people. Stagnation is death. Action is life. There is no life without action, and there is no action without some life.