about the gospel. You cannot cultivate affection for the Savior without reading and studying the Word of God. I am even more grateful for these books when I imagine what the last forty years of my life would have been like without them. I would have been vulnerable to every wind of doctrine. I would have assigned ultimate authority to my own emotions or possibly to some personal experience. I would not have grown in my understanding of the gospel. Apart from the mercy of God, I would have continued to