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==Boyd K. Packer (1980): "We do not talk of those sacred interviews that qualify the servants of the Lord to bear a special witness of Him, for we have been commanded not to do so"==
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There has come, these last several years, a succession of announcements that show our day to be a day of intense revelation, equaled, perhaps, only in those days of beginning, 150 years ago  But then, as now, the world did not believe. They say that ordinary men are not inspired; that there are no prophets, no apostles; that angels do not minister unto men—not to ordinary men.  That doubt and disbelief have not changed. But now, as then, their disbelief cannot change the truth.  We lay no claim to being Apostles of the world—but of the Lord Jesus Christ. The test is not whether men will believe, but whether the Lord has called us—and of that there is no doubt.  We do not talk of those sacred interviews that qualify the servants of the Lord to bear a special witness of Him, for we have been commanded not to do so.  But we are free, indeed, we are obliged, to bear that special witness…Like all of my Brethren, I too come from among the ordinary people of the Church. I am the seventy–eighth man to be accepted by ordination into the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in this dispensation.  Compared to the others who have been called, I am nowhere near their equal, save it be, perhaps, in the certainty of the witness we share.  I feel compelled, on this 150th anniversary of the Church, to certify to you that I know that the day of miracles has not ceased.  I know that angels minister unto men.  I am a witness to the truth that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, the Only Begotten of the Father; that He has a body of flesh and bone; that He knows those who are His servants here and that He is known of them.  I know that He directs this Church now, as He established it then, through a prophet of God. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.<ref>{{Ensign1|author=Boyd K. Packer|article=A Tribute to the Rank and File of the Church|date=May 1980|start=65}}{{link|url=https://www.lds.org/ensign/1980/05/a-tribute-to-the-rank-and-file-of-the-church?lang=eng}}</ref>
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