Wilford Woodruff and Redeeming the Dead

If "the veil were lifted off the face of the Latter-day Saints, " Wilford Woodruff taught, and they "could see and know the things of God as they do who are laboring for the salvation of the human family who are in the spirit word...., this whole people, with very few, if any, exceptions, would lose all interest in the riches of the world, and instead thereof their whole desires and labors would be directed to redeem the dead." Discourses of Wilford Woodruff, p. 152