When a testimony has been realized, there is a burning urge on the part of the possessor to bear that testimony to others. When Brigham Young left the waters of baptism, he said: “The spirit of the Lord was upon me, and I felt as though my bones would consume within me unless I spoke to the people. … The first discourse I ever delivered I occupied over an hour. I opened my mouth and the Lord filled it”(In Deseret News, Aug. 3, 1870, 306). As a fire will not burn, except the flame be revealed, a testimony cannot abide except it be expressed.


Douglas L. Callister, “Knowing That We Know,” Ensign, Nov 2007, 100–101