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- ...he Lord Jesus Christ of possessing great influence over the people of this Territory; and I would to God that I had sufficient influence to make every man and w "Mormonism" is said to be different in Utah from what it is in other countries. It should be very different. Let me exp28 KB (5,349 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...Gentiles called the United States, we shall find in almost every State and Territory the Church of the Saints of the Lamb of God, that the world call "Mormons," ...n the State of Illinois bear witness. We will not refer to persecutions in Utah, for here we have had but little, compared with scenes we have past through50 KB (9,344 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...ark last night, that it stormed yesterday, that the river Jordan runs from Utah Lake and empties into Great Salt Lake, that there are mountains on our righ ...caused the death of brother Jedediah M. Grant. I wished to go through the Territory and ask whether there was one left for God, or whether all had gone astray.9 KB (1,763 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...ating from one part of the Union to another, settling in whatever State or Territory they saw fit. The people preserved {{page break|215|top}} in their own hand ...rticulars during the twelve years of our sojourn here. Look abroad in this Territory: behold the flourishing settlements, forming almost a continuous chain for61 KB (10,991 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...Governor of the Territory of Utah; for he says he carries the "keys of the Territory in his breeches pocket" anyway. ...Government sent out an army to give protection to the oppressed people of Utah, and escort back all who want to go back to the East or to California, and36 KB (6,667 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...e various kingdoms and empires of the old world. Doubtless the citizens of Utah are sufficiently acquainted with the history of those nations to know that ...r to dispose of, and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the Territory or other property belonging to {{page break|113|top}} the United States," g9 KB (1,543 words) - 14:55, 13 April 2024
- ...ces in America, in England, and all over the world,—"Great oppression in Utah!" because we exhort the people not to be such fools as to run after the gol I will now inform the Latter-day Saints in this Territory that I wish them to fit out our Missionaries, who are going into the world14 KB (2,603 words) - 14:55, 13 April 2024
- To send the army to Utah was the measure and policy of a Democratic administration of the United Sta ...tude that wanted to speculate out of the army—out of the citizens of the territory, traders, freighters, merchants, and sutlers, doctors, lawyers, and devils?22 KB (4,100 words) - 14:55, 13 April 2024
- ...rit of the Lord may direct in those lands. Whether I shall return again to Utah, it matters not, if it so be that I keep the commandments of God and do his ...I will add that there is one thing that I am confident of—viz., that in Utah there is not much danger of the Latter-day Saints becoming very rich. If th30 KB (5,767 words) - 14:56, 13 April 2024
- ...a right to secede, so has a Territory, and so has a county from a State or Territory, and a town from a county, and a family from a neighbourhood, and you will ...mes is not so prompt now as he was three years ago, when he sent troops to Utah. South Carolina comes out and boldly declares her secession from the compac27 KB (5,230 words) - 14:56, 13 April 2024
- ...have tasted of the variety of temperature with which the Lord has blessed Utah, from the frigid to the torrid zone. ...relation to the limited extent of arable land in the southern part of our Territory. The field of operation for the production of a supply of cotton is within31 KB (5,843 words) - 14:56, 13 April 2024
- ...ficulties With Which the Church Has Had to Contend in its Establishment in Utah]] ...than ever the sufferings of the Saints have been in crossing the Plains to Utah. These are facts that are present with us. The bones of those who drove the26 KB (4,780 words) - 14:56, 13 April 2024
- ...FICULTIES WITH WHICH THE CHURCH HAS HAD TO CONTEND IN ITS ESTABLISHMENT IN UTAH ...FICULTIES WITH WHICH THE CHURCH HAS HAD TO CONTEND IN ITS ESTABLISHMENT IN UTAH33 KB (6,132 words) - 14:56, 13 April 2024
- |>=[[../26| Facilities in Utah for the Comfort and Prosperity of the Saints]] ...ent who was there, except Judge Phelps. There are also a few others in the Territory who received theirs. A few will remain and receive their inheritance. Will25 KB (4,859 words) - 14:56, 13 April 2024
- |H=FACILITIES IN UTAH FOR THE COMFORT AND PROSPERITY OF THE SAINTS |T=Journal of Discourses 9: FACILITIES IN UTAH FOR THE COMFORT AND PROSPERITY OF THE SAINTS9 KB (1,587 words) - 14:56, 13 April 2024
- ...re is an end of them and of their depredations upon the honest citizens of Utah. The best people in the world are in this Territory, and yet there is not another community, according to our numbers, so infes14 KB (2,674 words) - 14:56, 13 April 2024
- ...we labour for it, the finest flax, hemp, and wool, can be produced in this Territory. It is our duty to strive to raise every thing we need for our own consumpt ...essary to more fully develop the resources of the mountains and valleys of Utah. I mean that we could then use our means to bring the machinery here that w10 KB (1,888 words) - 14:57, 13 April 2024
- ...oad is now very good. This county, Davis, Tooele, and the northern part of Utah counties can forward teams in a day or two, and if the road again becomes b ...e sent some two hundred teams to the Frontiers to bring the Saints to this Territory. We wish to send three hundred this year, and they are as few as will answe19 KB (3,603 words) - 14:57, 13 April 2024
- ...forth, and has caught the attention of thousands that are now here in this Territory, and caused them to come to Zion for the purpose of worshipping God under t ...called on to strengthen the Stakes of Zion on the southern borders of our Territory. The Twelve being called to act a part in organizing this Mission, has caus24 KB (4,641 words) - 14:57, 13 April 2024
- ..., with everything to make them wealthy and comfortable there in Deseret or Utah, a great many would turn away from him to worship their idols.21 KB (3,962 words) - 14:57, 13 April 2024
- I wish to inform all the inhabitants of the Territory of Utah, Jew and Gentile, bond and free, male and female, black and white, red, cop ...rritory that knows whether there is a particle of pure cabbage seed in the Territory, or in his Ward? whether there is a bushel of pure buck-wheat, or Californi14 KB (2,553 words) - 14:34, 13 April 2024
- ...stead of accomplishing what they desired, have given the Latter-day Saints territory and comparative independence. All the evil they have sought to bring upon u ...he kanyons after wood, or to harness our teams and go on a visit to Davis, Utah, or any other county. We have also a right to assemble, as we did a short t17 KB (3,180 words) - 14:33, 13 April 2024
- ...ly for the benefit of those that are laboring in the different portions of Utah, or, as I was about to say, in different portions of Deseret. You are aware that I hail from the northern part of our flourishing Territory, (Cache Valley,) and I am really proud of the county and of the people who5 KB (993 words) - 14:33, 13 April 2024
- ...o get along any better with their savage neighbors than the inhabitants of Utah have done. Talk about making treaties with the Indians! Has there been any ...ple? I will answer. There has never been a time or circumstance since this Territory was organized, but what the civil law has reigned triumphantly in the heart27 KB (4,883 words) - 14:33, 13 April 2024
- ...l and in winter to keep us comfortably warm." I argue that a dress made of Utah yarn, worn over a reasonable quantity of underclothing, would be more light ...otton, from Utah flax, from Utah silk, from Utah wool, and wear cloth from Utah looms, or go without? And you, my sisters, my wives and my daughters, come28 KB (5,362 words) - 14:33, 13 April 2024
- ...ood schools be established throughout all the settlements of the Saints in Utah. Let good teachers who are Latter-day Saints in principle and at heart, be ...es can be grown to perfection and in abundance in the southern portions of Utah, while cereal crops, flax, wool, silk, and a great variety of {{page break|28 KB (5,239 words) - 14:33, 13 April 2024
- ...DING TEMPLES—GOLD, ITS PRODUCTION AND USES—GOVERNMENTAL POLICY TOWARDS UTAH—PROVIDING BREAD FOR THE POOR ...DING TEMPLES—GOLD, ITS PRODUCTION AND USES—GOVERNMENTAL POLICY TOWARDS UTAH—PROVIDING BREAD FOR THE POOR21 KB (4,000 words) - 14:34, 13 April 2024
- ...ttlements, had crops destroyed by the same cause, yet no wail went up from Utah, asking the nation for help. We have been so independent, and so disposed t ...y scheme that has for its object the obtaining of a State organization for Utah. Such persons look upon this as so great a blessing and so great a boon, th47 KB (8,780 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...lorado; visit those in Arizona and New Mexico; go north and travel through Utah and visit Idaho—go where you will, wherever they have settled, you will f ...ulterers and adulteresses. Yes, in this land of ours, in this Territory of Utah you could go to the polls and cast your vote if you lived outside of wedloc28 KB (5,276 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...people that are Latter-day Saints in this Territory and those that are in Utah, and that are in Colorado and Arizona, and those that are scattered abroad29 KB (5,591 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024
- ...no officers, for the reasons that, as a rule, every reputable man in Utah Territory, when he attains the age of majority, holds the office of an {{page break|1 ...is equal to, if not much better than the position of affairs in any other Territory and in many of the States. Has that been because there has been a union of41 KB (7,851 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024
- ...Territory. Over fifty thousand Sabbath school children in the Territory of Utah—nearly one-third of the entire population, as shown in our statistics at ...iage relation. Mr. Dickson took this view, that Murray was right; that the Utah Commissioners were right; that this was the sense of the country; that this49 KB (9,074 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...ay Saints; and yet there is not a man or woman within the confines of this Territory or elsewhere, who is a believer in the Gospel, but who is more than willing ...Scriptures, and I can further say that the missionaries who have gone from Utah—the Elders who have labored in the midst of the nations of the earth—ha42 KB (7,641 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...es are better exemplified in the lives of the people than they are in Utah Territory. What woman cries aloud in our streets because of being defiled? What woman41 KB (7,568 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...s, assuming that we are wrong, assuming that there is something up here in Utah that is not right, that is not consistent with Christianity, or the enlight ...member, while five-sixths of the population of this {{page break|275|top}} territory are "Mormons," and one-sixth non-"Mormons," eighty-five per cent. of the cr22 KB (4,154 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...hich I looked when I came into the settlements of the Latter-day Saints in Utah." These very falsehoods, therefore, have the effect of impressing—where m ...Because of this spirit of persecution to-day, Utah is a Territory, a grand Territory, and we as a people are living in these valleys of the mountains {{page bre17 KB (3,072 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...ing for you." Another President ordered, on misrepresentations, an army to Utah. How will the Almighty deal with these? They will be judged as you and I wi ...break|313|top}} Lake City, nor are any of you in prison though you are in Utah.41 KB (7,479 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...e Mr. Cleveland to administer, or cause to be administered all the laws in Utah impartially, he would be manifesting a degree of hardihood, a degree of mor ...the Judge of the Supreme Court of {{page break|332|top}} the Territory of Utah is a Christian, how will he feel when he comes into the presence of Father29 KB (5,487 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...in this Territory. We all know that: but it is good to have wise men visit Utah from abroad and see the excellence and strength of its government.34 KB (6,446 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...blossoms into life. And there are those even in {{page break|41|top}} this Territory who, when they get among the Saints believe that all the purposes of their ...awhile he takes the elder to one side and says, "How long have you been in Utah?" And the answer is ten, fifteen, or twenty years, as the case may be. "You21 KB (3,910 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- ...ll right; we have nothing to do with them? Have you? Has the city? Has the Territory? No. ...re we become an integral part of the government of the United States, as a Territory. Very well. Here is another thing we are talking about. Is that the governm34 KB (6,482 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- Had it not been for the Book of Mormon this territory would not be occupied by a people called the Latter-day Saints. That lies a ...e come from the nations of the earth! They have come from the mountains of Utah, from Arizona, from Idaho, and from the mountainous territories of the Nort29 KB (5,471 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- ...a. These people have had rather an unpleasant and chequered history in the Territory of New Mexico and the State of Colorado. They have been looked upon to a ce ...frog over their own wrongdoings, and in place of looking to the affairs of Utah they had better attend to their own." These things look strange to the youn31 KB (5,660 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- ...ed States, and he comes with proper credentials to act as governor of this Territory; he comes in the name or by the authority of the United States; and the gov ...to prepare teachers to teach others. Now, the Lord has a normal school in Utah. He is preparing us in a variety of ways sometimes we have not enough snow41 KB (7,992 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- ...holy priesthood, acting in behalf of the Church in different parts of this Territory, and also in different parts of the earth; and we have men, say, acting as ...I am reminded of a circumstance which occurred in the early settlement of Utah, at a time when we were all in very destitute circumstances, without the sh21 KB (4,081 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- ...proportionately, there will be a continual necessity for spreading forth, Utah will become too small for her spreading population, and in all the adjacent ...ns among the Latter-day Saints, Have we not seen in our experience in this Territory, some 300 to 400 men called at once to go forth and preach the Gospel, to l28 KB (5,070 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- ...bly, here, who have lived long in the outside world, previous to coming to Utah, and who are not entirely unacquainted with the usages of society there. Yo ...Washington, by the President, by the Congressmen: "Are things any worse in Utah than in Washington: than they are in New York? or in any State of the Union24 KB (4,551 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
- ...iness besides digging gold and silver and fighting the Saints, and I trust Utah will be left as unnoticed as it is in the President's message. I thank them ...it has resulted in replenishing the wardrobes of the people throughout the Territory, and placed in their possession many thousands of dollars. If you have a fe26 KB (4,895 words) - 14:34, 13 April 2024
- ...ould have gathered themselves together as we find ourselves to-day in this Territory, a distinct, religious brotherhood—if you please, a distinct nationality, ...heir souls, in regard to time and to eternity. There are thousands in this Territory to-day that are now well off that never would have owned one foot of land i31 KB (5,799 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
- ...to say; but I am prepared to say that, as a population, as a people, as a Territory, we have always been loyal to the institutions of our government, and I am ...to those political gamblers who would stake the lives of the citizens of a Territory in their damning games. Back with your hosts, touch not God's anointed, and27 KB (4,981 words) - 14:34, 13 April 2024
- |S= Remarks by President Brigham Young to the people, on his visit to Utah, Juab, and Sanpete Counties, in June and July, 1865. REPORTED BY G. D. WATT ...to our merchants that are here, and to those who are scattered through the Territory. I am speaking of our Mormon merchants. When a gentile merchant comes here31 KB (5,910 words) - 14:34, 13 April 2024
- ...t, which the people can freight themselves, and thus let every ward in the Territory supply themselves from abroad with what they really require; by so doing, t ...full benefit of our labors ourselves. Why not appoint in every ward of the Territory a good business man, who is filled with integrity and truth, to make contra29 KB (5,632 words) - 14:34, 13 April 2024
- ...hats as beautiful to look upon as any that have ever been imported to this Territory. I am addressing myself to the ladies of the kingdom of God, to those who k ...and hundreds of the poor Saints from the old countries to these valleys of Utah. Is it wise in us, and pleasing to the Lord, for us to place the means he h20 KB (3,788 words) - 14:34, 13 April 2024
- We have come to this Conference from all parts of the Territory to be reminded of our duties, and to obtain strength in the worship of the ...ut of the unfaithful, the Lord has got a chosen people in these valleys of Utah, and He desires them to become {{page break|146|top}} self-sustaining, and14 KB (2,717 words) - 14:34, 13 April 2024
- ...say that there is plenty of good wheat in the granary, or in the Egypt of Utah; and I think the loss this year, through early frosts, will aid very much i ...y we not all become Abrahams? It seems to me that the Almighty can furnish territory enough, room enough: for He is not limited: and this world and all other wo25 KB (4,879 words) - 14:34, 13 April 2024
- ...er or gauger in the Custom House, they would never come to Utah. Coming to Utah was the last thing and the last place for a man perfectly desperate for the ...ar in succession there, drawing their salaries to report how things are in Utah. All these things we have had to encounter; but our industry, our economy a23 KB (4,077 words) - 14:34, 13 April 2024
- ...ount of reading. If any of you, or if any of the people in any part of the Territory have ever sent letters to me to read, previous to sending them to their fri15 KB (2,815 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
- ...nd men to Wash-{{page break|279|top}}ington to howl for an army to come to Utah. ...to the Government, and I am of the opinion they are the only ones in this Territory who promptly do so.32 KB (6,237 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
- ...sheep. We need from one hundred to two hundred of the same capacity in the Territory. ...world, "what a terrible people these Mormons are! No man's life is safe in Utah!" Put this people by themselves and there would not be a law suit among the30 KB (5,738 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
- ...time I recollect that Mr. Reed, the father of the present Secretary of our Territory, then something of a lawyer, defended him from court to court, night after ...t have more than one-quarter or one-third the people there that we have in Utah, and I rather think the majority would rule in this case.30 KB (5,819 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
- ...s, after leaving here, informed the Administration that the inhabitants of Utah were mostly "Mormons," and were a very peculiar people. He thought he had m ...forced into this position, we cannot help ourselves, and hence we become a Territory, and have our Governor, Judges, Marshal, and Secretary of State sent us by27 KB (5,032 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
- ...ny business that may have to be presented from the different parts of this Territory, and from all parts of the earth; and we try to build up the people in thei ...s they came, and did nothing. We have had difficulties in the south of our Territory with Indians; we have to-day. What is the best course for us to take in reg20 KB (3,810 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
- ...The plains were darkened with wagons, six thousand having been started for Utah by one company, besides several thousands by the Government. There were als ...overnment is said to have expended forty millions in bringing that army to Utah and in establishing Camp Floyd; yet most of it went into the hands of specu23 KB (4,391 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
- |H=PROSPERITY OF SOUTHERN UTAH |T=Journal of Discourses 12: PROSPERITY OF SOUTHERN UTAH16 KB (2,815 words) - 14:36, 13 April 2024
- |<=[[../3|Prosperity of Southern Utah]] ...abroad under different circumstances from what we went. We had no Zion, no Utah, no body of Saints to give us any assistance. We were commanded to go witho15 KB (2,870 words) - 14:36, 13 April 2024
- ...er in the mountains?" My invariable reply is that we have enough to make a Territory. I wish the Latter-day Saints to increase and multiply. It has been said to ...tles? Will you live so that the report may go out from this time from Utah Territory that the Latter-day Saints are perfect examples for the nations of the eart6 KB (1,122 words) - 14:36, 13 April 2024
- |<=[[../13|Trip to Southern Utah—The Works and Faith of the Saints]] ...at it grows as fast in Wm. H. Hooper as in any man I know. He came to this Territory, as he has said, seventeen years ago next month; he came as clerk to Ben. H20 KB (3,873 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
- ...le as those who dwell in Salt Lake City or in any other settlement in Utah Territory. I think much of Provo; it is a very favored locality. We have established ...t little use for probate courts, district courts, or supreme courts in our Territory; their existence here would only be in a name and form, for the people woul12 KB (2,240 words) - 14:36, 13 April 2024
- ...ant to make plans and calculations, and every man and woman throughout the Territory should feel that it is a part of their duty to contribute his or her share ...gs, if the proper attention is paid to them. Our beautiful lakes—such as Utah Lake and Bear Lake,—our rivers, and even our springs can, with a very lit15 KB (2,763 words) - 14:36, 13 April 2024
- ...xpended in rearing this city and in extending civilization throughout this Territory—I say it is for us to decide to-day and during this Conference whether or ...} bow as servilely as himself to Brigham, shall have leave to stay in this Territory, ignores the fact that the Salt Lake basin is a rich oasis in which nature27 KB (4,902 words) - 14:36, 13 April 2024
- ...ng Territories. If it had not been for the Latter-day Saints settling this Territory, when would Idaho, Montana, Colorado, Arizona or Nevada have been settled? Ever since the settlement of this Territory I have felt how much better it would be if this people would unite together48 KB (9,182 words) - 14:36, 13 April 2024
- ...ed by the wicked. If we do this prosperity will be upon the inhabitants of Utah; prosperity will be upon the towns and cities erected by this people, the h ...e strengthened in regard to this matter, for what do I behold here in this Territory? I behold a people that have been willing to sacrifice all that they have f28 KB (5,132 words) - 14:36, 13 April 2024
- ...ons of the Gospel of Christ the spectacle which is to be witnessed in this Territory of a people congregating together from so many nations and united in their ..., to-day, through all the nations of the earth, that which is witnessed in Utah—one form of worship and one faith, and all the people, everywhere worship32 KB (5,979 words) - 14:36, 13 April 2024
- ...bers of his church, many of whom, and their children, are citizens of this Territory to-day. After this they continued their journey westward to Independence, i ...any of the Saints together, and has materially increased the population of Utah.34 KB (6,021 words) - 14:36, 13 April 2024
- ...o six. I want to say this for the consolation of those sisters who live in Utah and bear children. ...efit of her health I suppose. These great statements about the children of Utah have come through the great wisdom and experience of Anna Dickinson. How mu27 KB (5,287 words) - 14:36, 13 April 2024
- ...y Saints—is revealing the remedy. You travel throughout the Territory of Utah, from Bear Lake in the north to St. George in the south, and what do you se26 KB (4,848 words) - 14:36, 13 April 2024
- ...y this large congregation now before me, but as I travel to and fro in the Territory I see four hundred miles of desert reclaimed, and over one hundred towns, c ...e United States formed a treaty with Mexico, and this became United States territory.49 KB (8,952 words) - 14:36, 13 April 2024
- ...n their secret amours and supporting mistresses, yet against the people of Utah, where such things are totally unknown, there is an eternal and rabid outcr In speaking of Utah and this peculiar practice amongst its people, it is frequently said, "Look42 KB (7,550 words) - 14:37, 13 April 2024
- ...le that have lived on the face of the earth; and they are the same in this Territory as they have been elsewhere. For instance, let a man pass through this coun ...done in preaching and in missionary labor by the Elders of Israel than in Utah amongst the Latter-day Saints.27 KB (4,977 words) - 14:37, 13 April 2024
- ...ut the Lord backed up our testimony, and tens of thousands throughout this Territory and in the world, who received it, can bear record that they have received33 KB (6,250 words) - 14:37, 13 April 2024
- ...in our case. Men say, in speaking of us: "Do you Latter-day Saints, who in Utah and the adjoining Territories number probably one hundred and fifty or two ...tnessed before me to-day, and that can be seen throughout the Territory of Utah. Why is this? Because, as I have said, they have labored without the concur31 KB (5,763 words) - 14:38, 13 April 2024
- ...hould not have seen this assembly here to-day in this Tabernacle, nor this Territory filled with cities and towns. But being the work of God, he asks no odds of ...gation, while we have 600 miles of towns, villages and settlements in this Territory. It is progress all the time. Why? Because it is the work of God. No one ca20 KB (3,899 words) - 14:38, 13 April 2024
- ...t this spirit will be received and cherished by the Saints throughout Utah Territory, and throughout the world. Judging by my own feelings on this subject and b25 KB (4,719 words) - 14:37, 13 April 2024
- ...rected the minds of the world to Utah is the discoveries of mineral in our Territory. This has undoubtedly added greatly to the interest which has ever been fel ...of one heart and mind. And has it not been so in our day? We find in this Territory men representing nearly every country. They have come here by thousands fro33 KB (6,092 words) - 14:37, 13 April 2024
- ...ousands of their books distributed among the Sunday schools throughout our Territory. Some Latter-day Saints think they are not exactly what they ought to be; b ...world, our youth know better than the whole sectarian world. In coming to Utah to teach the "Mormons" the way of life, the Christians are but carrying coa29 KB (5,606 words) - 14:37, 13 April 2024
- ...rs for this city appointed by the legislative power and enactments of this Territory; and we have somebody or other here, who say, "You have no law here only wh ...my of King James came here in 1857? Said he, "Send an army of young men to Utah to decoy and destroy the young women there, and that will break up 'Mormoni13 KB (2,514 words) - 14:38, 13 April 2024
- ...s not the origin of this great gathering which you see in the Territory of Utah. If you do not believe what I say, let any other society, I don't care how ...in their own country; it is because thousands of this people, now in this Territory, have been healed themselves. It is because God has shed forth his power by43 KB (7,922 words) - 14:38, 13 April 2024
- ...er as we are found, in these valleys of the mountains, in the Territory of Utah. We have come here, ostensibly and in reality, not to do our own will, but17 KB (3,281 words) - 14:38, 13 April 2024
- ...these valleys of the mountains, throughout the length and breadth of this Territory. Your ideas were based on the revelations of God, the message that you hear ...ughout the Territory are out of debt; our counties are out of debt and our Territory is out of debt. Where can you point to the same thing anywhere else? Well,24 KB (4,502 words) - 14:38, 13 April 2024
- ...the Territory, that there are about thirty thousand school children in the Territory, between the ages of four and sixteen. ...s Territories may be an enlightened one, and it may not; having lived in a Territory most of my life I may not be considered a proper judge. Suffice it to say,19 KB (3,314 words) - 14:38, 13 April 2024
- |H=PATRIARCHAL MARRIAGE—THE SETTLEMENT OF UTAH |T=Journal of Discourses 15: PATRIARCHAL MARRIAGE—THE SETTLEMENT OF UTAH23 KB (4,242 words) - 14:39, 13 April 2024
- ...n to be opened, and now silver mines are being worked in many parts of the Territory. A few years ago General Connor and others, who dwelt here, with soldiers u ...d be far wiser for us, to sell our wool to those who own factories in this Territory, and to sustain ourselves by sustaining home manufactures.15 KB (2,792 words) - 14:38, 13 April 2024
- Many of you know that in 1853 we had difficulty with the Indians in Southern Utah. At that time I was military commander of the Southern Department. Previous ...entials did not think proper to allow the representatives of the people of Utah a seat in that convention, consequently we retired, believing, fully, that23 KB (4,253 words) - 14:38, 13 April 2024
- ...case have forced us into the very position that we now occupy—namely, a Territory in the United States of America; and as we are here, we like other people, ...to fence it, and to have our neighborhood, city and county regulations in Utah among the Saints, just as the people do elsewhere, for, as I have already s37 KB (7,101 words) - 14:38, 13 April 2024
- ...se mountains; and had it not been for that event, it is probable that Utah Territory would still have been a desert, a barren, solitary, uninhabited district of I would call upon this congregation, and upon the inhabitants of Utah Territory, I mean that portion called Latter-day Saints, and ask of them, Have you ex44 KB (8,270 words) - 14:38, 13 April 2024
- ...I suppose that among {{page break|203|top}} the thousands who live in this Territory, who have been gathered from the various States of this country, and from t ...or in the same places of worship throughout the length and breadth of this Territory, I see something which to my mind is far, far more surprising than anything30 KB (5,445 words) - 14:38, 13 April 2024
- ...NCIPLES OF THE GOSPEL THE SAME AS OF OLD—EARLY EXPERIENCE OF SETTLERS OF UTAH—RELIGIOUS LIBERTY—MODERN SO-CALLED CIVILIZATION—BAPTISM FOR THE DEAD ...NCIPLES OF THE GOSPEL THE SAME AS OF OLD—EARLY EXPERIENCE OF SETTLERS OF UTAH—RELIGIOUS LIBERTY—MODERN SO-CALLED CIVILIZATION—BAPTISM FOR THE DEAD25 KB (4,734 words) - 14:39, 13 April 2024
- ...nciples of the Gospel the Same as of Old—Early Experience of Settlers of Utah—Religious Liberty—Modern So-called Civilization—Baptism for the Dead] ...ak the sentiments of every man and woman who belongs to the Church in this Territory. We know that we have received the truth, that it. will be triumphant in th38 KB (7,207 words) - 14:39, 13 April 2024
- ...not, to see whether there are any persons throughout all the Territory of Utah who are complying with them. In one of these revelations, given in March, 1 ...r prepared: but, when I see the backwardness of many of the people of this Territory calling themselves Latter-day Saints, about paying their tithing, refusing42 KB (7,893 words) - 14:39, 13 April 2024
- ...ed "United States Supreme Court for the Territory {{page break|12|top}} of Utah;" but the United States Supreme Court that sits at Washington—the seat of13 KB (2,551 words) - 14:39, 13 April 2024