Elder James A. Cullimore delivered a talk called "Confession and Forsaking: Elements of Genuine Repentance" at the October 1971 General Conference, where he talked about the feeling of wanting forgiveness for having done something wrong, and what it feels like to be forgiven.
When he gave the talk, he didn't know who wrote this poem, so he listed it as 'Author Unknown':
The Quote
“‘I ask no dream, no prophet’s ecstasies,
No sudden rending of the veil of clay,
No angel visitant—no opening skies,
But take the dimness of my soul away.’”
But this is no unknown verse. It belongs to a pretty old hymn, written by the Reverend George Croly, who, aside from writing the hymn, "Spirit of God, Descend Upon My Heart", also wrote novels after he moved to London and couldn't find employment in the church again.
The quote above comes from the second verse of the hymn:
The novel Tarry Thou Til I Come and his poems are among his remaining works. Everything George Croly wrote had many spiritual references and themes, and were enjoyed by literary luminaries such as Edgar Allen Poe and Lord Byron.
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