"God has reserved...choice spirits to come forth in this last dispensation, because of the greatness and magnitude of the work to be accomplished...It has required apparently the most valiant men and women to come forth in the last days...[because]this is not a short lived dispensation; it is to go on increasing in power...until it shall fill the whole earth...And, of course, it requires great valor, great obedience and great gifts in order to accomplish the end that is to be attained under the promises of God. The Lord has permitted spirits to be born among the various races of mankind that are fitted and qualified to accomplish this great work."

George Q. Cannon, Gospel Truth p18