And...this work...shall stand as a testimony against the world at the last day.
And if it so be that they repent and come unto the Father in the name of Jesus, they shall be received into the kingdom of God. --Ether 5:45.President Gordon B. Hinckley, then second counselor in the First Presidency said at the October 1984 general conference that the Book of Mormon is a "cornerstone of our faith...
"It is here. It must be explained. It can be explained only as the translator himself explained its origin. Hand in hand with the Bible, whose companion volume it is, it stands as another witness to a doubting generation that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God."