Indeference: A cold war with Satan

From the book:

Elder Oaks was in law school, and his brother was getting ready to leave on his mission. The year is 1956.

“And now, if I may, I want to say little about what you will meet in the mission field. There were times when a missionary feared for his life, and preaching was a rigorous physical experience. Now those days are history, and today the open conflict against the Church has largely disappeared… We are now in a period of conflict with indifference, in many ways a much more dangerous enemy than open hostility. One might say that we are now in a cold war with Satan, a time in which he has called off the active opposition to the gospel and substituted in its place indifference, indifference to the necessity for the one true church….” (pages 32-33)