It is not altogether the number of years that you live that counts, but the result of your labors that you will be judged by, not only among the children of men, but in the hereafter as well. I want to see the [Latter-day Saint] people the most contented and the happiest people in all the world. And let me testify to you today that the way to reach that happy sphere is to live the commandments that God has given us, and obey the same. – Reed Smoot, “Conference Report,” April 1925, Second Day-Morning Session, p.54