We are saddened to learn, as we travel about the stakes and missions of the Church, that there are still many of the Saints who are not reading and pondering the scriptures regularly, and who have little knowledge of the Lord’s instructions to the children of men.
Many have been baptized and received a testimony, and have ‘gotten into this straight and narrow path, ’ yet have failed to take the further required step—to ‘press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end.’ (2 Ne. 31:19–20; italics added.)
(Spencer W. Kimball, Ensign, Sept. 1976, p. 2)