“The worst fear that I have about this people is that they will get rich in this country, forget God and His people, wax fat, and kick themselves out of the Church and go to hell. This people will stand mobbing, robbing, poverty, and all manner of persecution, and be true. But my greater fear for them is that they cannot stand wealth; and yet they have to be tried with riches, for they will become the richest people on this earth” (reported in James S. Brown, Life of a Pioneer [1900], 122–23).
- Brigham Young, as quoted in "Brigham Young-Second President of the Church," Presidents of the Church Teacher Manual Religion 345, (2005), 21–36
http://www.lds.org/manual/presidents-of-the-church-teacher-manual-religion-345/brigham-young-second-president-of-the-church?lang=eng
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