"The world at large has the idea that the
symbol of Christianity is the cross, but it's no such thing. The cross is the
symbol of the cruelest form of torture and execution that the Romans could
devise; that is what the cross is for. Christ did not give us the cross as the
symbol of his great Atonement. He gave us, instead, the sacrament of the Lord's
Supper and told us to partake of that bread and drink of that cup in
remembrance of his blood and his broken flesh. Did he not give us that great
ordinance emblematic of the suffering on the cross? Of course he did. We get it
from no other place. He did not say to venerate the cross, he said to partake
of the sacrament and always remember him and pledge to high heaven that we will
always keep the commandments of Almighty God." —Elder Mark E. Petersen,
