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  • Question: Who was James Strang?
    ...ch leadership/Succession in the Presidency of the Church|Succession in the Presidency of the Church]]''). One of these was James Strang, a recent convert to the ...obvious reasons. There are a few things in dispute about the document. The first is that the wording of the document is somewhat ambiguous. The document see
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  • Logical fallacies/Page 1
    ...Their statements are not doctrinally-binding unless ratified by the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve. See [[General authorities' statements as scriptu ...ble) which he knows will automatically exclude the LDS. He must, however, first prove this assumption to be true. When stated baldly as above, the circula
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  • GospeLink quick links
    * Messages of the First Presidency [James R. Clark, editor] ** [http://gospelink.com/library/contents/819 Joseph Smith's First Vision: Confirming Evidences and Contemporary Accounts]
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  • Plural marriage practiced after the First Manifesto
    |L=Plural marriage practiced after the First Manifesto |H=Plural marriage practiced after the First Manifesto
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  • 1844 Succession to Joseph Smith
    {{Critical sources box:Mormonism and church leadership/Succession in the Presidency of the Church/CriticalSources}}
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  • Primary sources/Nauvoo Expositor Full Text
    ...e taught and practiced in the Church; determined me to leave the office of first counsellor to the president of the Church at Nauvoo, inasmuch as I dared no ...agonistical parties for the success of their respective candidates for the Presidency, we shall remain neutral, and in an editorial capacity, inactive. Anther pa
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  • Primary sources/Evolution
    :The first great scientists were themselves devout Christians, who believed that in th ...ly the Standard Works and statements written under assignment of the First Presidency and the Council of the Twelve Apostles are considered official declarations
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  • Primary sources/Evolution/Mormon Doctrine
    From the day of their first announcement, these theories of organic evolution found themselves in confl ...imitive organisms of all living beings exist in the same form as when they first received their impress from their Maker. . . . If we take man, he is said t
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  • Primary sources/Evolution/EoM Evolution
    ...shed by the First Presidency in 1909 and stated again by a different First Presidency in 1925: ...with divine attributes (see Appendix, "Doctrinal Expositions of the First Presidency").
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  • Primary sources/Evolution/McKay Letter 1959 sec
    ...ate truth covering these matters, it would only be confusing for the First Presidency to make any statement regarding such things.<br><br>
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  • Primary sources/Evolution/IE 1910
    ...age 778, article, "Creation and Growth of Adam;" also article by the First Presidency, "Origin of Man," Vol. XIII, No. 1, page 75, 1909. <br><br>
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  • Primary sources/Evolution/EoM Creation
    First, the Book of Moses establishes Mosaic authorship of its creation account in ...the Father, prior to coming upon the earth in a temporal body" (see First Presidency, "The Origin of Man," Nov. 1909 [Appendix]; see also Spirit Body).<BR><BR>
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  • Primary sources/Evolution/EoM Origin of Man
    ...gin of the human family" and "the first man"; (3) creation was sequential: first spiritual, later physical; and (4) each human body displays the characteris ...uent official statements indicate that the details of how Adam became "the first man" are considered not to have been revealed clearly enough to settle ques
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  • Primary sources/Bruce R. McConkie/Seven deadly heresies
    Should we accept the famous document of the First Presidency issued in the days of President Joseph F. Smith and entitled "The Origin of Do not be deceived and led to believe that the famous document of the First Presidency issued in the days of President Joseph F. Smith and entitled The Origin of
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  • Question: Do Mormons believe that there is there progression between the three degrees of glory?
    1952: Joseph L Anderson, Secretary of the First Presidency ...f the First Presidency” </ref>Joseph L. Anderson, Secretary to the First Presidency in a 1952 letter; and again in 1965.</ref>
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  • Question: What is the stance of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on birth control?
    ...dbook 2 is not considered scripture itself but it is approved by the First Presidency of the Church and much of its content is taken from prophetic teachings. I
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  • Source:Stick of Ephraim/Erastus Snow statement
    ...ed and subsequently stolen, and of which an abridgement is given us in the first Book of Nephi, which is the record of Nephi individually, he himself being .... Yet we find in the Doctrine and Covenants the declaration concerning the first Elders of this Church, that they were of the house of Ephraim; and another
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  • Official Declaration&mdash;1
    :Congress, the Presidency, and the Supreme Court combined to generate repressive legislation and dist ...was to become the Manifesto. After the Manifesto was revised by the First Presidency, three members of the Quorum of the Twelve, and a few others, it was sent t
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  • Primary sources/Evolution/First Presidency 1909
    |L=Primary sources/Evolution/First Presidency 1909 |H=First Presidency statement on evolution in 1909
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  • Primary sources/Evolution/First Presidency 1910
    ''Source: "Words in Season from the First Presidency," ''Deseret Evening News'' (17 December 1910), part 1: 3.''
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  • Primary sources/Evolution/First Presidency 1925
    A statement by the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. ...ppeared to Joseph Smith, when, as a boy of fourteen years, he received his first vision.
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  • Question: Was Brigham Young a racist?
    ...trine of the Church. The doctrine is taught by all 15 members of the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve. It is not hidden in an obscure paragraph of one t From our perspective as "enlightened" people of the early twenty-first century, virtually everyone in America up until the last few decades &mdash
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  • Mormonism and science/Death before the Fall
    |L8=First Presidency statement (1931): "Leave geology, biology, archaeology and anthropology, no {{:Source:First Presidency statement:1931:Leave geology, biology, archaeology and anthropology, no one
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Articles/LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890–1904
    Let not my servants who are called to the Presidency of my church, deny my word or my law, which concerns the salvation of the c *Also in in James R. Clark, ''Messages of the First Presidency'' Vol. 3, (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1966), 175&ndash;176. Text in {bracke
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  • Question: Are Latter-day Saint prophets not really "prophets" because they don't foretell unknown events?
    ...tion:1995/Full title}}</ref> published in 1995 over the names of the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and read by President Hinckley to the ...Evening. In 1915 President Joseph F. Smith and his counselors in the First Presidency began a Churchwide effort to strengthen the family. They called on parents
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  • Question: Why do Mormons follow the practice of most Christians by resting and worshiping on Sunday?
    ...ay Saints in the Holy Land be changed. The four concerns were as follows: First, for the Jews, public transportation ceases on Saturday, stores and places We believe the Lord's day ({{b||Revelation|1|10}}) to be the first day of the week.
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  • Elias and Elijah at the Kirtland Temple
    ...who holds the keys is the one who directs the work; keys are the right of presidency. Thus Gabriel, who stands next to Michael (Adam) in the heavenly hierarchy, 10. And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things, ''as the prophets have written''.
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  • Evidences that support the Book of Abraham
    ...Additionally, the Book of Jasher as listed in this collection of lore was first published in New York 1840. The appearance of the English translation was n ...Jasher 11:51, p. 143<ref>The Book of Jasher frames the attempt with Terah first pleading with the king to take Abram's life. The king then sends men to get
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  • Primary sources/Unwritten Order of Things
    ...ember his first name, but I shall never forget the first thing he said the first day we met. ...r of weeks. I thought it was hopeless, until that first few minutes in the first class. He began the class with this announcement: "While many of you have h
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  • Question: Did the First Presidency identify the New York "Hill Cumorah" as the site of the Nephite final battles?
    ==Question: Did the First Presidency identify the New York "Hill Cumorah" as the site of the Nephite final battl Many Latter-day Saints (including apostles and members of the 1st Presidency) have expressed opinions about the location of Cumorah (or other [http://mo
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Archaeology
    *[[Book of Mormon geography:Statements:First Presidency Letter|No official position on Nephite Cumorah location]]
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Polygamy
    ...t;color:#000;padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Claim: "An amazing experience like [the First Vision] should radically change a person's life but by the age of 21, Josep ...a that it increased the comfort, or added to the ease of anyone. From the first it was known to involve sacrifice, to make a large demand upon the faith, p
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/DNA
    :''As to whether these were the first inhabitants...we don't have a position on that. Our scripture does not try :''The First Presidency has often been asked to prepare some suggestive map illustrative of Nephite
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Call to Leaders
    :''The First Presidency have of right a great influence over this people; and if we should get out
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Letter (annotated)
    ::''The First Presidency has encouraged Church members to convey their response to questions and cri
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  • Mormonism and culture/Attitude toward non-members/Statements
    ==Official First Presidency Statements==
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  • Question: Why are "hot drinks" forbidden by the Word of Wisdom?
    ...y, 1975),10&ndash;13.</ref> an official statement of policy from the First Presidency is available, in which the use of any habit-forming drug is discouraged: ...m Egypt. The Israelites were to mark their houses with lamb's blood at the first Passover. Houses so marked were protected from the "destroying angel." (See
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  • Question: In the 1950s, did Mormons teach that the only way a black man could get into heaven was as a slave?
    ...any of the expressions he used in his speech are objectionable to a twenty-first century audience that has better learned the lessons of racial equality and Throughout my service as a member of the First Presidency, I have recognized and spoken a number of times on the diversity we see in
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  • MormonFAQ/Community of Christ
    ==The First Presidency== ...edia.org/wiki/First_Presidency_%28Community_of_Christ%29 Wikipedia - First Presidency (community of Christ)])
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  • MormonFAQ/LDS Org
    =The First Presidency= .../en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Presidency_%28LDS_Church%29 Wikipedia - First Presidency])
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  • MormonFAQ/Who are they
    ...ay Saints is led at the highest levels by two presiding quorums: The First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. (See [http://www.lds.org/ldsnewsroom
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  • MormonFAQ/Other groups
    The Community of Christ is presided over by the First Presidency and The Council of Twelve Apostles. Congregations are communities and are l
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  • MormonFAQ/Terms
    ;Book of Commandments: A book of scripture first published in 1833, consisting of revelations received by Joseph Smith. It w ;Elder: There are three uses for the term "Elder." First it is a level of priesthood that belongs to most male members between the a
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  • Paid and unpaid Church leaders
    ...capacity, but you have begun to think of your future retirement. The First Presidency and the Twelve, of course, do not retire. Neither are they released. With t ...their desire to strengthen His children everywhere. They would be the very first to acknowledge their own faults or failings, just as we can readily point t
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  • Book of Mormon geography:Statements:First Presidency Letter
    #REDIRECT [[Question: Did the First Presidency identify the New York "Hill Cumorah" as the site of the Nephite final battl
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  • Times and Seasons/1/6
    ...corrupt characters, like unto himself, have taught many things, which the presidency never knew of, until after they were made prisoners which, if they had know ...nd distraction, and all of which has been endeavored to be palmed upon the presidency, who were ignorant of these things which were practised [practiced] upon th
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  • Evolution:Primary sources:First Presidency 1909
    #REDIRECT [[Primary sources/Evolution/First Presidency 1909]]
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  • Evolution:Primary sources:First Presidency 1910
    #REDIRECT [[Primary sources/Evolution/First Presidency 1910]]
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  • Evolution:Primary sources:First Presidency 1925
    #REDIRECT [[Primary sources/Evolution/First Presidency 1925]]
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  • Times and Seasons/1/5
    ...e, however, was not as terrifying as it might have been, had this been the first time that it had been proclaimed in the ears of the saints, but they, being ...quare, and the most of the lots sold; and in one year from the time of the first settlement in Caldwell, there were from one hundred to one hundred and fift
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  • Topical Guide/Church history/Prophetic Succession
    |link=Mormonism and church leadership/Succession in the Presidency of the Church |subject=Succession in the Presidency of the Church
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Video/Search for the Truth DVD/Who is God
    ::<small>&mdash;Gordon B. Hinckley, "First Presidency Message: In These Three I Believe," ''Ensign'' (July 2006): 2&ndash;8.{{lin First, Paul follows this statement, referring to those that are called gods, with
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  • Question: Was Zarahemla located near present-day Nauvoo?
    Anthony W. Ivins, member of the First Presidency, said in General Conference: ===D&C 125 was not the first application of the name Zarahemla to the area===
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  • Question: Why are there no women prophets in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints today?
    ...er, the spiritual gift of prophecy is different from the calling the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles have to act as "prophets, seers, and Surely the women called as General Auxiliary Presidency members are forthtellers. They travel the world teaching and testifying; t
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  • Mormonism and politics/California Proposition 8
    ...-stories/first-presidency-urges-respect-civility-in-public-discourse First Presidency Urges Respect, Civility in Public Discourse] (Nov. 14, 2008)</ref> See [htt ...-stories/first-presidency-urges-respect-civility-in-public-discourse First Presidency Urges Respect, Civility in Public Discourse]). A good summary of post-elect
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  • Question: Did the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) invest more money in Proposition 8 than in all of its combined humanitarian efforts?
    ...epresent a generous offering of the value of 2 meals abstained from on the first Sunday of each month. The combination of personal sacrifice (fasting) and f ...been instituted by divine design for the betterment of society. The First Presidency and Quorum of the 12 Apostles warned "that the disintegration of the family
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  • Specific works/DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography (DVD)
    ...f Mormon is not...President George Q. Cannon, First Counselor in the First Presidency, stated: “The Book of Mormon is not a geographical primer. It was not wri ...ale=0&sourceId=c47674536cf0c010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&hideNav=1 “First Presidency Message: The Keystone of Our Religion,”] Ensign, Jan 2004, 2–6
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  • Question: Does FAIR provide "official" answers to questions?
    It is important to first recognize that FAIR is an organization completely independent of the Church ...ut necessarily receiving this as an official calling or going to the First Presidency to speak on each and every issue.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Nauvoo Polygamy/Chapter 2
    ...picuously absent" when Joseph Smith spoke to those who would be among the first to receive the full endowment necessary "to finish their work and prevent i ...ph's day, this was not the case. Most of Joseph's counselors in the First Presidency were to betray his trust, including Jesse Gause, Frederick G. Williams, Sid
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  • Times and Seasons/1/4
    ...driving, and the saints were determined not to be driven by them, without first trying their strength;) Wherefore the most intelligent, and respectable cit ...he state of Missouri; and entirely broken up, without having committed the first offence [offense]: or without there being the least shadow in the very slig
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/The LDS as Mindless Followers
    *13. The prophet and his counselors make up the First Presidency — the highest quorum in the Church. *14. The prophet and the presidency — the living prophet and the First Presidency — follow them and be blessed; reject them and suffer.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Nauvoo Polygamy/Chapter 3
    .... Nineteen of the present-day states permit unrestricted marriage between first cousins, and most countries have no restrictions at all on marriage between ...not surprising that he also aspired to the highest office in the land: the presidency of the United States.”
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 11
    ...ne & Covenants, revelations given through Joseph Smith the prophet and the Presidency of the Church as now organized? ...mies who have been in our midst, feeling any worse than they do, they have first to know more; they are as full of bad feeling now as they can hold without
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 13
    ...]'', October 1853, vol. 1, no. 10, 158. (It should be noted that the First Presidency [[The Seer|rejected]] Pratt's writings in ''The Seer'' as Church doctrine.)
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 17
    ...omes the spiritual." Why then, did Brigham Young say that people are "made first spiritual, and afterwards temporal"? "You have never heard one of the First Presidency or the Twelve...advocate this excessive zeal that calls for gaining a so-ca
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 18
    {{:Question: Why is ''History of the Church'' written in first-person, as if Joseph Smith himself wrote it?}} ...as' attack on the Church; this was well-before his aspirations to the U.S. presidency or fall in political fortunes.
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  • Source:First Presidency statement:1931:Leave geology, biology, archaeology and anthropology, no one of which has to do with the salvation of the souls of mankind, to scientific research
    #REDIRECT [[First Presidency statement (1931): "Leave geology, biology, archaeology and anthropology, no
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 14
    |L3=Response to claim: 315, 585n12 (PB) - The First Presidency statement “They who fight against Zion shall be destroyed; and the pit wh ==Response to claim: 315, 585n12 (PB) - The First Presidency statement “They who fight against Zion shall be destroyed; and the pit wh
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Chapter 16
    *Lowery Nelson, letter to First Presidency, October 8, 1947. Quoted in Steward, 146. *LDS First Presidency, letter to Lowery Nelson, July 17, 1947. Quoted in Steward, 153.
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  • John C. Bennett and plural marriage at Nauvoo
    |summary1=Joseph's first plural marriage after Fanny Alger. ...ade his second proposal to a previously unmarried woman in Nauvoo and the first proposal since his marriage to Louisa Beaman.
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  • Primary sources/Brigham Young/8 October 1861 discourse on plural marriage
    ...irlds.org/FAIR_Conferences/2006_Zina_and_Her_Men.html Zina and Her Men]," (First Draft, 29 March 2006). Selection and commentary prepared by Gregory L. Smi ...can discover there is no need for a bill of divorcement. To recapitulate: First, a man forfeits his covenant with a wife or wives, becoming unfaithful to h
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Absurd claims
    ...e Church didn't even exist until 1830, and Joseph wrote the stories of his First Vision and Moroni's visit well after 1823. The author simply wants to drama ...ics, or knaves, (for ''one or the other they undoubtedly are'') made their first appearance amongst us, and ''pretended'' as they did, and now do, to hold p
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Kingdom of the Cults (Revised)/Index
    ...isted Joseph Smith as "author and proprietor"|Response to claim: 194 - The first edition of the Book of Mormon listed Joseph Smith as "author and proprietor {{disinformation|The First Presidency has issued the following statement about what constitutes tithing:
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Special relationship with Christ
    ...ship" with Christ. McConkie said, "[Y]ou have never heard one of the First Presidency or the Twelve...advocate this excessive zeal that calls for gaining a so-ca
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Demolish Endowment House
    ...solemnization of plural marriages in Mexico. By September 1889, the First Presidency was also refusing to issue plural marriage recommends for Utah. However, ma ...ch had been a matter of somewhat informal discussion among themselves, was first formally expressed to the Twelve on 2 October 1889:
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Wilford Woodruff 1889 revelation
    ...=24 November 1889}}. Also available in {{Book:Clark:Messages of the First Presidency 3|pages=175–176}}</ref> ...ites George Q. Cannon, Diary, 23-24 Nov. 1889, copy in CR 1/48; also First Presidency Office Journal, 24 Nov. 1889, copy in CR 1/48. </ref>
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  • Times and Seasons/1/3
    ...of the saints living on Big Blue river about six miles west of town; they first tore the roof from a house, and injured the furniture within; they then div ...rtally, who died the next day. P. Dibble was wounded, in the bowels by the first gun fired.
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/One Nation Under Gods/Use of sources/Mormon Doctrine and race issues
    ...cle of difference what anybody ever said about the Negro matter before the first day of June of this year [1978]. It is a new day and a new arrangement, and ...nd grows out of the lack of spiritual valiance of those concerned in their first estate. Certainly the negroes as children of God are entitled to equality
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  • Question: Did Boyd K. Packer say, "I have a hard time with historians because they idolize the truth"?
    ...from Quinn's Fall 1981 lecture to the BYU Student History Association. The first publication was, unsurprisingly, by the Tanner's anti-Mormon press (without ...st teacher.''' The result of his teaching, however, was faith, whereas the first teacher left his students unsettled and doubting. It took some careful anal
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Mormon Hierarchy: Extensions of Power/Index
    |claim="a First Presidency secretary acknowledges acknowledged that [David O.] McKay liked his ‘cele
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  • Question: Why did Mormon leaders oppose the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the United States?
    ...proposed as an amendment to the constitution of the United States. It was first introduced in 1923 and rode the tides of American politics until it failed ...common move and took an official position on a political issue. The First Presidency&mdash;then comprised of Spencer W. Kimball, N. Eldon Tanner, and Marion G.
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  • Mormonism and popular media/"Big Love" and the temple
    *The first thing that we hear the Stake President ask is "So you haven’t tithed in s ...ents" indicates that the person is going to attend the temple for the very first time. This is known as a "live endowment."
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Nauvoo Polygamy/Presentism
    ...ast behavior is evaluated by modern standards or mores. We take our twenty-first century way of think and assume that individuals living in the nineteenth c ...a claim that Bishop Edwin Woolley married a plural wife without having her first divorce her legal husband. On page 333 we see that Parley P. Pratt's "last
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  • Question: What is the history and origin of the term "anti-Mormon?"
    “Boynton, who first preached in Maine as a Mormon… has, for twelve years, been an anti-Mormon ...ttled in Virginia. President Tyler, first vice-president to succeed to the Presidency following the death of William H. Harrison in 1841, like his father attende
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  • Specific works/DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography (DVD)/Hierarchy of doctrinal authority
    It should also be noted that this "hierarchy" matches exactly the first testimonial on the "DNA Evidence for Book of Mormon Geography" web site: In contrast to the claim that Joseph revealed a geography, the First Presidency has stated that Book of Mormon geography has ''not'' been revealed:
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  • Question: Has the Church tried to hide the fact that Joseph fired a pepperbox pistol at the mob which murdered him?
    ...lford Woodruff, in letter dated June 30, 1856. This account in Burton was first publication of the work by John Taylor] * B.H. Roberts, ''The Life of John Taylor'' (SLC: 1989; first published 1892) p.134
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows/Omissions/Total submission to Brigham Young
    * The First Presidency have of right a great influence over this people; and if we should get out
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/American Massacre/Chapter 3
    ...to claim: 27 - The author claims that "the constitutional defenders of the First Amendment" called for Joseph Smith's arrest after the destruction of the Ex |claim=Nauvoo was claimed to be "the first genuine theocracy in American history."
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/The Changing World of Mormonism/Chapter 17
    {{propaganda|No one from first century Palestine can enter the kingdom without the consent of Jesus' apost ...y thought there might be a chance and nominated the Mormon prophet for the Presidency of the United States....Still, the Mormon prophet was realistic enough not
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  • Mormonism and history/Boyd K. Packer's talk: "The Mantle is Far, Far Greater Than the Intellect"
    ...ut the actions of some historians were made clear in a letter to the First Presidency: ...d historian is taught to develop. <ref>Boyd K. Packer, Letter to the First Presidency, 24 October 1974; cited in Lucile C. Tate, ''Boyd K. Packer: A Watchman on
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/3
    When I first reflected upon this removal, my heart felt pained. I well knew the disposit ...us settlements and explorations; and of the many organizations made by the Presidency, This has been joyful to me while abroad in foreign nations.
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    ...or instance, they are at liberty so to do. If any one wishes to preach the first principles of the Gospel—repentance and baptism, with the gifts, he is at The First Presidency proceeded to the south-east corner, to lay the first stone, though it is customary to commence at the north-east corner—that i
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    ...ate themselves, and raise good fields of grain, that they can bring in the first fruits of the earth. This is what is required to be done at the present tim ...ictate where the stone and other materials shall be obtained; and that the Presidency shall be untrammelled from this time henceforth and forever. I want every b
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/28
    ...dead; to call upon the people to repent and be baptized, and give them the first principles of the Gospel, and prepare them to reign in yonder world of glor ...re made to be killed off. When my brother Orson began to speak at all, the first word which I can remember he ever said, was—"Why, dad's gone to shoot the
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    ...n this matter, had more influence to make the Saints obey counsel than the Presidency of this Church had, and could actually kick up a bigger fuss in a few days ...every time I have visited any settlement in Iron County, from the time it first commenced, up to the present, and I have been through a great proportion of
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/42
    ...ng the earth, and then rendering to the Lord the first fruits thereof, the first fruits of your cattle, of your sheep, and of all your increase. This is how ...ill at Coal Creek, pretty much all of them, are ironmongers; they were the first to go into the iron and coal business and leave their farms. There are some
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/4
    ...irst Presidency of the Church of God on earth, and one of the Pioneers who first entered this Valley. He has gone to rest, after being worn out by trials, p ...e assembly, gathered together to commemorate the day on which the Pioneers first arrived in this region to inhabit these valleys.
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/6
    ...h-East Corner Stone of the Temple at Great Salt Lake City, after the First Presidency and the Patriarch had laid the Stone, April 6, 1853. ...rtion of their first endowments, or we might say more clearly, some of the first, or introductory, or initiatory ordinances, preparatory to an endowment.
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    ...h-East Corner Stone of the Temple at Great Salt Lake City, after the First Presidency and the Patriarch had laid the Stone, April 6, 1853.
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    ...may thy blessing and power rest upon him and his brethren, even the First Presidency of thy Church. May they be filled with the spirit of revelation continually
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    ...t Salt Lake City, after the Presidency of the High Priests Quorum, and the Presidency and the High Council of the Stake had laid the Stone, April 6, 1853.
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    ...t Salt Lake City, after the Presidency of the High Priests' Quorum and the Presidency and the High Council of the Stake had laid the Stone April 6, 1853.
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    ...t Great Salt Lake City after the First Presidency of the Seventies and the Presidency of the Elders' Quorum had laid the Stone, April 6, 1853. ..., sealings, anointings, baptisms for the dead, and in the mysteries of the first, second, and third heavens, many of which are unlawful to utter? Angels and
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    ...after the Twelve Apostles, the First Presidency of the Seventies, and the Presidency of the Elders' Quorum had laid the Stone. April 6, 1853. Holy Father, bless, we pray thee, the Presidency of this thy Church, and prolong their days, that we may long enjoy their co
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/21
    You may ask why? You may think that this contradicts my first statement—that the temporal things of this life are not even of a seconda ...the year 1831, when ancient "Mormonism," as it has often been termed, was first introduced; we call it ancient, because it seems quite long to us narrow mi
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/29
    Since President Young and others have dwelt upon tithing it is coming in first rate, and Bishop Hunter has become frightened; "Good heavens," says he, "wh ...ght to be burned, and the rest gathered with us; for the Lord, in the very first start of this Church, said, "All those who have entered into covenant with
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/33
    ...ecution, opposition, and oppression that this Church has met with from its first organization, have been in a great measure in consequence of carrying out t ...re would have been no need of an angel to visit the earth to teach men the first principles of the Gospel of Christ, and administer its ordinances to them.
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/35
    ...to be mad, and shoot him. That was the devil's plan, when this Gospel was first introduced, the cry was, "False prophet, impostor, delusion, fornication," ...re revealed to the children of men in the last days was the gathering; the first revelations that were given to the Church were to command them to gather, a
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/50
    ...e us all, and in consequence of this, being requested by some of the First Presidency, I have come out into the open air for the purpose of addressing you, accor ...t will be in the Church History. It is given in questions and answers. The first question is, "What is the name of God in the pure language?" The answer say
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/52
    ...hat you have been told today, and never take a course to trammel the First Presidency in their operations, but take off their shackles and burdens and carry them
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/53
    When we first heard the revelation upon the Word of Wisdom many of us thought it consiste ...y have a desire to keep the Word of Wisdom, and know it is the wish of the Presidency that the Elders of Israel should preach upon the Word of Wisdom, and establ
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/54
    ...little more room, but it fulfils very clearly the early predictions of the first President of the Church, (Joseph Smith,) that we may build as many houses a ...e to my discourse, because I have been pleased by the remarks of the First Presidency, especially by those of President Brigham Young, on the subject of the appo
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  • Journal of Discourses/2/56
    ...nce of opinion, but the very moment that a "Mormon" comes and preaches the first principles of the Gospel, you will see the {{page break|374|top}} utmost co It was cowardly fear that caused the Allies to banish Napoleon the First to St. Helena, and there watch him as they would a wild beast to the day of
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/4
    ...ing our minds to it the better it will be for us. If you look to the First Presidency to lead you, assisted by the Twelve and other leading members of this Churc ...ied to commence at the first round, whereas, if they would commence at the first round, and go step by step, they would soon arrive at the upper rounds.
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/11
    ...ased with the remarks that have fallen from the lips of brother Grant, who first addressed us this morning. The subject of the coming of the kingdom of God, ...I will here say, that I have felt to be of one heart and one mind with the Presidency in relation to these things. Brethren, in saying these things, do we feel l
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/12
    ...Fret not your gizzards." We are first-rate, and the grasshoppers are doing first-rate too, and I expect that the Lord will be as good as His word, for we ar I will say in conclusion, let us pray for the peace and prosperity of the Presidency that are. absent from us today, and of those who are with them. I will not
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/22
    ...Let each family be one with its head, and let that head be united with the Presidency, and then we are one and God is for us, and who can be against us?
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/23
    |>=[[../24|The First Principles of the Gospel]] The simple fact of the Presidency having left us for a brief period of time, has not effected, legitimately,
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/40
    ...ter such matters, under the directions {{page break|269|top}} of the First Presidency of this Church.
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/42
    ...ng here, and have known them to work four or five years without having the first acre secured by a good fence, and without cultivating the ground in a manne Marsh, not being satisfied, took an appeal to the First Presidency of the Church, and Joseph and his Counsellors had to sit upon the case, and
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/44
    ...er duties—the important purposes and measures devised and planned by the Presidency of this Church for the general good of this people. I feel willing to perform any mission, whenever the First Presidency of this Church require it of me. If they say go to China, East Indies, Aust
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/45
    He was only about twenty-four or twenty-five years old when I first met him, and I became intimately acquainted with him and his brothers, and I have often been reminded by the faithful laborers in this Church, the Presidency and others, of the parable in the Book of Mormon that these latter-day labo
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/50
    ...hem up to perform the works which they know that they ought to do. This at first appears strange, and then again it is not so strange. Our organization is s ...required by that authority. That the parent is his superior is one of the first lessons that the child learns—that he is his dictator to measure and guid
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  • Journal of Discourses/4
    ...n our part, to write a commendatory preface to the Discourses of the First Presidency and Twelve Apostles of this Church. To the Saints their words are as the wo
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/1
    ...elve, viz.: Peter, James, and John. Peter held the keys pertaining to that Presidency, and he was the head. ...ways a governing principle in the Church upon the earth; there is always a Presidency, three who represent the Deity here on the earth. Just think of your positi
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    ...E PLAINS—THOSE WHO ENTER HEAVEN HAVE TO PASS THE INSPECTION OF THE FIRST PRESIDENCY ...E PLAINS—THOSE WHO ENTER HEAVEN HAVE TO PASS THE INSPECTION OF THE FIRST PRESIDENCY
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/13
    There is not a person, who knows anything about the counsel of the First Presidency concerning the immigration, but what knows that we have recommended it to s ...look round and prepare for winter. This is my policy, and then during the first half of the journey the cattle can get what is called prairie grass while i
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/14
    ...died before the brethren could reach them, and a few more died during the first five days after they met them. The company had encountered cold and storms, ...part of the community anticipated any censures being placed upon the First Presidency of this Church, in consequence of the sufferings of the people now upon the
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1827 to 1830
    In the first letter Anthon said he refused to give Harris a written opinion; according t *Bushman, p. 577 note 16 states that the 1834 Anthon letter first appeared in ''MoU'', 269-72, and the 1841 letter in Clark, ''Gleanings by t
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1831 to 1838
    #{{Harvtxt|Brodie|1971|pp=98–99, 116, 125}} (Smith first lived with [[Newel K. Whitney]] in Kirtland, then moved in with John Johnso his first task
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1838 to 1839
    ...ident|presidency of Missouri]]), [[W. W. Phelps (Mormon)|William Phelps]] (presidency of Missouri), [[Martin Harris (Latter Day Saints)|Martin Harris]], [[Hiram ...51}} (Danites were under oath to be "completely submissive" to the First Presidency.)
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Legacy
    ...world, than any other man that ever lived in it."); {{Citation|last=Smith|first=Joseph Fielding|authorlink=Joseph Fielding Smith|title=The Historical Backg #{{Citation|last=Weber|first=Max|authorlink=Max Weber|title=Economy and society: an outline of interpret
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/20
    When I first met the train of hand-carts my soul was full, the scene was overwhelming, o Whatever counsel the Presidency of this Church have been led to give unto this people, it has been dictated
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/27
    ...d Members, if he could only keep the stream pure between him and the First Presidency. ...nd correct reports from every Bishop of the different wards, that when the First President of the Church shall say, brother Spencer, in what condition is th
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/30
    And here are brothers, Pulsipher, Herriman and Clapp, members of the first Presidency of the Seventies, sitting here as dead as door nails, and suffering these p The Spirit and power that rested upon the First Presidency when brother Jedediah was in the flesh are with brother Brigham and me, and
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/31
    |>=[[../32|Overcome the Powers of Darkness by Prayer—Spiritual Things First in Importance—Cleanliness]] ...said, his mortal body was not strong enough to bear its weight. The First Presidency have not addressed this people but a little time since the sacrament was re
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/33
    |<=[[../32|Overcome the Powers of Darkness by Prayer—Spiritual Things First in Importance—Cleanliness]] ...would draw our attention from the path of duty, that we may be one as the Presidency are one, and be bound together by the principle of love that binds the Son
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/34
    ...ngs, and I may say a great many of them. We should ask for those blessings first and foremost which every one needs for their own present salvation, increas ...d its inhabitants, and to see such a fog there, and such darkness that the Presidency could not there free their minds, but had to lift the almighty sledge hamme
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/35
    28. And God hath set some in the Church, first Apostles, secondarily Prophets, thirdly Teachers, after that miracles, then ...em in this way, but not in any other except through obedience, unless that Presidency rises up and cuts you off. They can do that, for they have as much power to
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    ...ith the fact that many of the people who come to this place think that the Presidency will save them, regardless of their own individual conduct. ...any more, let the consequences be what they may." They will not render the Presidency any encouragement or assistance about their companies after they arrive her
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/38
    ..., and especially while sitting and listening to the teachings of the First Presidency, the Twelve, and the Elders of Israel, in their various spheres and calling ...at we may live and walk daily in the light of the Lord. I realize that the Presidency of this Church stand between this people and the Lord, for they are the hea
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/47
    ...s people on this continent, and appeared in their midst, they could not at first realize and appreciate him. They saw him and felt the wounds in his side, i ...ty from that, and you got it from us, and this authority is with the First Presidency. Now do not go off and say that you are independent of that authority. Wher
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/51
    ...us. So it is with the general authority of this Church; here are the First Presidency, the Twelve, the High Priests, the Seventies, Elders, Bishops, and lesser P ...en and nations upon the earth. They should be one in spirit with the First Presidency, and the Seventies should be one with the Twelve and with us.
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    ...he History of Joseph Smith, the public counsels and teachings of the First Presidency, the Twelve and others at head quarters, and all home items and news of int
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/58
    The Presidency, in their remarks here, have referred to the hatred of the wicked against u I pray the Lord to bless you and me, and more particularly the Presidency of this Church, and clothe them with the power of God and with salvation, t
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/67
    ...step in and undertake to break asunder that union that exists in the First Presidency of this Church, for me to allow it, or to step forward and slay him or her? ...the nations? And don't it say it shall begin here, or at the house of God, first? Say you, "That was in Kirtland." Well, Kirtland is here. Another says, "Th
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/1
    ...not been under the necessity of asking you to help me much. Instead of the Presidency's living upon the people, it is well known that they have sustained the peo
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/6
    ...do it; and yet there are men who are continually whining because the First Presidency are so severe upon the workers of iniquity; but I don't feel to take off th
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    ...t, and the last first. This is the last kingdom, and the Lord will make it first; for it has got to raise up, and establish, and confer power upon every one ...inds them to the First Presidency stronger and stronger; and for the First Presidency to make theirs stronger in relation to God and those who are connected with
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/10
    {{page break|46|top}} This is not a work that belongs only to the First Presidency, or to the Twelve, or to any of the Presidents of the Quorums only, but it ...hen let all be diligent to cleanse themselves of all that is evil upon its first appearance.
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    ...and the gift of the Holy Ghost, so that when I have sat here and heard the Presidency and the servants of God teach the principle of righteousness and the word o ...greatest principles which he has for us are the most simple and plain. The first principles of the Gospel which lead us unto eternal life are the simplest,
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/18
    ...ld not take our waggons. We were desirous to visit those brethren; for the Presidency had expressed their wish for us to do so as we came along. Brother Rich was ...ians at this point and those we had encountered before reaching there. The first we met were in the region of Los Vegas; they were all hungry and nearly sta
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/19
    ...re called upon to speak their feelings,—most of them, I suppose, for the first time in their lives. True, they had sat under the teachings of the servants ...ght which they had. All the perfection and glory of it was not revealed at first; but, as fast as it was revealed, the people endeavoured to obey.
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/20
    ...econd, and the third drop, and the second and the third drops run into the first, and they are combined in one. Now, inasmuch as they are combined and have ...ll extend it to the Twelve in these last days; they are one with the First Presidency, and then the Seventies with the Twelve, and then the High Priests and othe
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    ...associating with those that have the fear of God before their eyes, whose first object is their own salvation, the salvation of their progenitors and poste ...more wicked than himself; and the last state of that man is worse than the first."
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    ...been nothing hitherto expressed here manifesting the feelings of the First Presidency of the Church and the members in general on this point, I can answer for th ...ere is no more required of us than we are capable of performing. The First Presidency are satisfied, and I can say that the people are satisfied.
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/32
    ...mony. I have been acquainted in this Church and connected with it from the first year of its organization in the wilderness of western New York. It was orga When I first became a member of this Church, one small room could have contained all the
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/33
    ...last six months that spirit has in a more particular manner moved upon the Presidency of this Church, and they have cried unto you as with the voice of an earthq But what is the use of persons being baptised until they first confess and forsake their sins, and make restitution where they have injure
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    ...ntroduce to you brother Thomas B. Marsh. When the Quorum of the Twelve was first organized, he was appointed to be their President. ...ld to come. I know that I was a very stiff-necked man, and I felt, for the first four or five years especially, that I would never return to the Church; but
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    ...y medicine, law, or botany, and many of the sciences, you must study Latin first, because the doctors and professors make use of that language to convey the ...mply? Obedience in all things,—that the Twelve should be obedient to the Presidency, the Seventies to the Twelve, and so on through all the ramifications of th
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    ...er if they had not have baptised one, they are as much justified as we who first went to Herefordshire, England, and baptised twenty or thirty priests in a ...stand at the head. All we have to do is to live our religion; and when the Presidency say "Come here," or "Go there," let us be on hand to obey, and all will be
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    ...not likely that we can see the final issue or the result of our journey at first. If we could see the end, there would be no trial of our faith; but all the ...hen jump on to him yourself: you would not do that. Then, when you see the Presidency of our Church—, our leaders—when you see them bowed down, if you cannot
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    ...ct. Well, so with our Father, to accomplish his work in the last days; his first move was to find men that would engage in it, and then to send men forth to ...ak from my own experience, and answer, No. We believed the truth as it was first announced to us, but not in all its extent nor what it really amounted to;
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    ...you will be sorry for. You may take the Quorums in this Church—the First Presidency, the Twelve, the Presidents of the High Priests, the High Councillors, and ...beauty of Joseph's mission? You know that I am one of his Apostles. When I first heard him preach, he brought heaven and earth together; and all the priests
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    ...in what I have heard and in what has been expressed, not only here by the Presidency who addressed us this morning; but the greatest or highest source of gratif
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  • Journal of Discourses/6
    ...s will become a complete journal of all the Sermons delivered by the First Presidency and the Twelve. Besides this, in the Sixth Volume will be found published s
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    ...ment of what has been termed our reformation was more than a year ago; and first attended with the desire only of correcting some irregularities among us an ...e here to chastise us. Just ten years ago that very day, when the pioneers first entered the valley, brother Brigham said, in view of the injustice and crue
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    ...houlders a good, nice camlet cloak and put it on to mine; and that was the first cloak I ever had. This was in the month of June, 1887. [Voice: "He shall be ..., and David, and Martin; and then it was confirmed by, Joseph of the First Presidency. Now, I want to know what authority of Priesthood I have only as I act in c
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  • Journal of Discourses/6/12
    ...us as a people. If it were so, such admonitions as are called out from the Presidency of the Church would be uncalled for; they would be unnecessary; the people
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  • Journal of Discourses/6/15
    ...; and after yielding once, they have not the same strength to resist as at first. They become more and more weakened every time they yield to temptation, un ...than five, another over only two, and another over but one. They must all first be subjected to sin and to the calamities of mortal flesh, in order to prov
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  • Journal of Discourses/6/17
    ...urch of God, from the first Presidency down. And indeed, between the first Presidency and the Lord of Hosts there is a regularly organized channel through which It is something like the streams that water our city. At first they come out in large streams from the mountains; then they are divided of
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  • Journal of Discourses/6/18
    ...ed as during the past year. No person who has listened to the words of the Presidency of this Church during a few months past, and has seen the fulfilment of the ...inspired by the power of God. That same Spirit has rested upon the present Presidency of this Church: they have laboured incessantly for years to save the childr
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    ...hat we shall slide off the foundation, and would have to return and do our first works. There is the Father, and the Son, who was given up, that his blood m ...e laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost. These are some of the first principles of the Gospel.
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    ...mind so trammelled as brother Parley P. Pratt's once was, when dancing was first introduced into Nauvoo among the Saints. I observed brother Parley standing ...tion, the President calls upon you and asks, "How does that man get along? First rate: he is easily governed and controlled." Says the President, "I am glad
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    The very moment that revelation to this Church through our Prophet and Presidency ceases to be {{page break|161|top}} communicated unto us, and we adopt any
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  • Journal of Discourses/6/27
    I have been to England on a mission, sent by the First Presidency and the general authorities convened in Conference on the 6th day of April, When we first arrived in England, all was peace, as a general thing. And do you know the
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  • Journal of Discourses/6/30
    Now, the Lord moves upon the hearts of our First Presidency to say to the Elders of Israel abroad, "It is enough: come home. Your testi ...devils that brother Kimball and the other brethren saw in vision on their first mission to England seem now to have entered into the tabernacles of the peo
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  • Journal of Discourses/6/33
    ...ey whereby this people are to be exalted; and I sincerely believe that the Presidency are comforted by the obedience that is rendered to their requirements. In adding to our faith, it is necessary that we should add virtue first, then knowledge; and these we should cultivate daily and hourly.
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  • Journal of Discourses/6/36
    ...the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Are these three men who compose the First Presidency one? They are. God has ordained them on earth to fulfil his purposes, build ...rd embodied all the Priesthood and power of his kingdom in the head of the First Quorum of his Church? Yes. Where should the power of this people be centred
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  • Journal of Discourses/6/39
    The Lord showed this place unto his servants, the First Presidency of this Church, and the few pioneers who accompanied them; and from that da ...the staff of Israel are in the holy Priesthood that is vested in the First Presidency and in the body of the people. We are not to trust in the arm of flesh, but
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  • Journal of Discourses/6/40
    ...living in his day, and to him was given the dominion. These men held keys first on earth, and then in heaven. ...nized them. He (Adam) is the head, and was told to multiply. The keys were first given to him, and by him to others. He will have to give an account of his
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  • Journal of Discourses/6/41
    ...ion generally is, "Did he preach well?" "Oh yes," the reply is; "he talked first rate;" and I find that they are filled with the spirit of animation and of ...bodies of men, whose business it is to act under the direction of the two first Quorums; then come the Elders, Priests, Teachers, and Deacons, who constitu
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  • Journal of Discourses/6/54
    ...onnection with and under the direction {{page break|302|top}} of the First Presidency of thy Church, power to roll forth thy work upon the earth, like a mighty t ...art, quick to discern between good and evil, filled with the spirit of the Presidency and of counsel, of justice, and judgment, that the hearts of the people may
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  • Journal of Discourses/6/57
    ...ing of Bishops, Seventies, High Priests, Elders, the Twelve, and the First Presidency; but I consider we are, strictly speaking, a meeting of the Elders of Israe ...had to urge them any to the fulfilment of this duty. However, some on the first reflection thought it seemed impossible for them to comply with it, and som
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  • Journal of Discourses/6/58
    ...escape from it. If I seek to build up the kingdom of God, from the time I first came into this Church until I lay down my body in the grave, still my spiri ...ey become old, they will not depart from it. Are you waiting for the First Presidency and the Twelve to train them for you? It is a hard case for us to manage ou
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  • Journal of Discourses/6/66
    ...ny slight and ludicrous remarks on hearing a class exercise in some of the first rudiments and rules of the science. But to the skilful musician, his remark ...e waves of political strife and religious intolerance, where, perhaps, the first house erected for educational purposes was lighted up by the torch of the i
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  • Journal of Discourses/7
    ...d the future value of a complete set of volumes of Discourses of the First Presidency and leading men of the Church. A bare reference to that fact will suffice t ...to expect that, in the eventful times to come, the Discourses of the First Presidency and leading authorities of the Church will increase in their importance and
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  • Journal of Discourses/7/10
    ...r as they understand. The main difficulty is that many do not know how the Presidency should be sustained, through lack of intelligence to rightly discern and cl ...stances.{{page break|64|top}} And although you think that you sustain your Presidency, yet many conduct themselves in some things precisely as do the people in t
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  • Journal of Discourses/7/13
    |>=[[../14|Duty of Sustaining and Upholding the First Presidency in all Their Operations, etc.]] ..., and tread down the wicked as ashes under the soles of their feet, at the first coming of our Lord. Then surely this coming of our Lord had relation to the
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    |H=DUTY OF SUSTAINING AND UPHOLDING THE FIRST PRESIDENCY IN ALL THEIR OPERATIONS, ETC. |T=Journal of Discourses 7: DUTY OF SUSTAINING AND UPHOLDING THE FIRST PRESIDENCY IN ALL THEIR OPERATIONS, ETC.
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  • Journal of Discourses/7/15
    |<=[[../14|Duty of Sustaining and Upholding the First Presidency in all Their Operations, etc.]] ...to-day who remember the early days of this Church and kingdom. Some of the first Elders in this Church who went up to Kirtland to see the Prophet were made
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  • Journal of Discourses/7/17
    When the early Elders of this Church began to preach the first principles of the Gospel, how oft have we heard the question asked—Why di ...of fellows were pretending to preach a new religion. Thurlow Weed was the first to commence the literary war through the press, under the head of "Blasphem
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  • Journal of Discourses/7/28
    ...go, "If you hear of my being dead before you come to see me again, let the first thing you say be 'Hallelujah!'" That remark, to me, evidences the retention ...d foremost, and should be the prevailing desire in the hearts of the First Presidency of the Elders of Israel, and of every officer in the Church and kingdom of
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  • Journal of Discourses/7/35
    We will first present the authorities of the Church; and I sincerely request the members The first name I shall present to you is that of Brigham Young, President of the Chur
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  • Journal of Discourses/7/47
    ...l witnesses to the nations; for we are called to save our own: that is our first duty. It is true we can do a great deal towards bringing others to {{page b ...there is no harm in stealing from the Gentiles, and who tell them that the Presidency of the Church say so. This is the way the lies were told about us, to lead
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  • Journal of Discourses/7/50
    When Governor Cumming came here first, he offered deliverance to the captives in Zion, and told the people in pub
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  • Journal of Discourses/7/54
    "I am a Seventy, and consequently have nothing to do here! There is a First Presidency here, a High Council, and a whole host of Bishops. I shall only be regarded
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  • Journal of Discourses/7/58
    ...hearts to lay aside the living oracles, what then? I would answer, in the first place, that the premises are false. Why? The very moment that we set aside ...is it that you are going to apply this to yourself?" I will tell you. But first let me quote from another revelation contained in the Book of Doctrine and
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  • Journal of Discourses/8/18
    ...d he will confer upon every man and woman that honours the Priesthood, the Presidency, the Bishops, and all the members of the body. We cannot honour God except ...o, it is through mistake and a slip of the tongue. But I feel to bless the Presidency of this Church and the Priesthood generally, and all that believe on their
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  • Journal of Discourses/8/48
    ...ly as the Almighty himself, and to never make a mistake. Wherein the First Presidency and the Twelve do wrong, it is not in the ability of the people to detect t ...of the world, but never think of inquiring as to their duty to-day. Learn first to obtain power over the smaller objects and principles around you. Learn t
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  • Journal of Discourses/8/55
    ...is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. (Romans, chap. 1, verse 16.) ...rant every one of you to be saved in the kingdom of God, and a part in the first resurrection, with power to enjoy it. What we have heard to-day I know to b
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  • Journal of Discourses/8/61
    ...rs in the Church of which we are members. There have been aspirants to the Presidency of this Church ever since the death of Joseph Smith, and even before. It ma ...writings in which he has laboured to establish his right and claim to the Presidency of the Church? No one. God pleads his own cause through Brigham, because he
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  • Journal of Discourses/8/65
    ...ostles, telling them that they held the keys of the kingdom with the First Presidency and the fathers from the beginning of the creation. "For unto you (the Twelve) and those (the First Presidency) who are appointed with you to be your counsellors and your leaders is the
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  • Journal of Discourses/8/66
    ...he everlasting Gospel, to labour for the sustenance of Zion, make that our first, our great, our only object, and fear not for the earthly things we may nee When the Presidency bear their testimony to us, our spirits will then meet with theirs, and we
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  • Journal of Discourses/8/67
    ...by degrees. The same may be said of stealing: persons addicted to stealing first began by stealing some trifling thing—perhaps a halfpenny or a penny; fro ...y men who lie and steal will try to hide their own sins by saying that the Presidency both do this and sanction it. God will curse all who say such things, and a
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  • Journal of Discourses/8/78
    ...ng as I was on that mission from which I have just returned, seems, at the first view, terrible. ...ng connected with this system, and with the power that is exercised by the Presidency of this Church, that the world cannot understand. I found many men who were
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  • Journal of Discourses/8/85
    ...is that the Spirit of oneness may descend upon this people; first upon the Presidency of this Church, and then upon every Quorum and authority thereof.
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  • Journal of Discourses/8/90
    ...ivilege twice in each year of coming up to headquarters to visit the First Presidency and leading authorities of the Church in G. S. L. City; and inasmuch as we ...his faith? and where is his power? They pass into the shade: the testimony first given is laid by; it is put aside—his faith, his wisdom, the power—to r
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  • Journal of Discourses/9/2
    My prayer is from time to time, Father, baptize the Presidency into {{page break|7|top}} one spirit, and let them partake of the same elem
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  • Journal of Discourses/9/3
    ...ents of their own destruction. The proper mode of government is this—God first speaks, and then the people have their action. It is for them to say whethe ...hat is presented, and then the voice of the people is the voice of God. He first dictates, and then we sustain his nomination. Thus we have the wisdom of Go
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  • Journal of Discourses/9/4
    ...rty which we do not now. The fear there is in the breasts of many that the Presidency will exercise an influence over their business affairs, that would not give
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  • Journal of Discourses/9/6
    ...adultery; and those who have been led astray by them think that the First Presidency of this Church and the Twelve Apostles do the same things, and they go down ...be when I will see those men in the general assembly of the Church of the First-Born, in the great council of God in Jerusalem, too. Will we want you to be
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  • Journal of Discourses/9/16
    ...or it is lifting a great burden from the people abroad as well as from the Presidency; and I consider that the Saints in these valleys ought to be thankful for t ...his way we can test ourselves and see if we are as ready as we were in the first place to assist in the work of the Lord, and to yield of the things of the
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  • Journal of Discourses/9/17
    ...cisely the same Priesthood that the Seventies and the Twelve and the First Presidency possess; but are they ordained to officiate in all the authority, powers, a ...ies? No. Could the Twelve? No. And we ask, Could Joseph Smith or the First Presidency do this without revelation? No; not one of them could do such a work withou
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  • Journal of Discourses/9/25
    ...se questions? Yes, readily, when I tell you. The redemption of Zion is the first step preparatory to the two last-named events. Just as soon as the Latter-d When Joseph first revealed the land where the Saints should gather, a woman in Canada asked i
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  • Journal of Discourses/9/33
    ...ad of being at ease, must travail in pain to be delivered. When the Saints first began to assemble themselves together in Jackson county, Missouri, and bega ...ns to save Israel; yes, for years, if that should be required by the first Presidency, though I stand ready to go to China, or to the islands and nations of the
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  • Journal of Discourses/9/38
    |>=[[../39|The First Principles of the Gospel]] ...office, or is called upon to fulfil an office for the public good, but the first thing to be considered is, What will it pay? How much can we make? "Is ther
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  • Journal of Discourses/9/51
    ...Tithing? (All answered, "Yes.") Will you attend to the calls of the First Presidency of this Church? (One simultaneous "Yes" burst forth in answer to this quest
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    ...the Church throughout this Territory, and it is right and proper that the Presidency of these Quorums should have some organization by which they can feel after ...most authority, for if you contend about your Bishops and Presidents, the first thing you know is that you have no President at all, and instead of going a
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    ...item of counsel, which was disseminated among the people a year ago by the Presidency, and while they travelled through the Territory north and south during the
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    ...een produced from the one kernel and it will increase in proportion to the first. This is the principle of increase in nature, and each of us should endeavo Brethren and sisters, I feel to bless you and also all the Presidency of this Church, and all the Quorums of the Priesthood; I likewise feel to b
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  • Journal of Discourses/10
    ...supererogation to pen a preface upon the writings or sermons of the First Presidency or the Twelve Apostles, they speak for themselves; but, we can only say tha
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  • Mormonism and science/Global or local Flood/Statements
    ...fficially binding for the whole Church. With divine inspiration, the First Presidency (the prophet and his two counselors) and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles ...tire earth with water. Thus, the “everlasting decree” (Ether 2:10) was first taught that he who will not obey the Lord in righteousness will be swept fr
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  • Journal of Discourses/10/8
    ...age break|34|top}} comfort of my own household, for this I esteem to be my first duty." ...s not upon, that will enhance the welfare of this people. Who imported the first carding-machine to this country, and the only good ones that have been brou
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  • Journal of Discourses/10/14
    |H=NECESSITY OF UNDERSTANDING THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF THE GOSPEL—OF UNION AMONG THE PRIESTHOOD, AND ATTENTION TO |H=14. NECESSITY OF UNDERSTANDING THE FIRST PRINCIPLES OF THE GOSPEL—OF UNION AMONG THE PRIESTHOOD, AND ATTENTION TO
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  • Journal of Discourses/10/22
    ...you so officiate? "Because I have been ordained to so officiate; the First Presidency ordained Bishop Hunter to ordain me a High Priest, and set me apart to be a
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  • Journal of Discourses/10/28
    ...rethren did not feel to do so. They were aware that it was the wish of the Presidency that certain things should be done, but they seemed as though they needed t ...mple of our God should be put together. It is likewise well known that the Presidency never ask men to do a service except that their labors are required in that
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  • Journal of Discourses/10/31
    ...ber of teams this season. We have never had as many as was designed in the first place, which was fifty, at any one time. If we could have even twenty-five ...ing a new tabernacle than you are; it is no more the business of the First Presidency or Twelve Apostles than it is yours. This, however, may need qualification;
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    ...o something towards the accomplishment of so great a work. How far can the Presidency of this Church bear off this kingdom? Why, they can only do that which devo ...s all this, they have stepped forward and done the works of Sarah, and the first men of this Church have done the works of {{page break|166|top}} Abraham, a
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  • Journal of Discourses/10/38
    ...taught them how to build up a literal kingdom of God here upon earth. The first principles of the Gospel have been taught this people in the countries from ...y bolting it against fulfilling the first commandment that God gave to our first parents. I will put my own definition to the term sanctification, and say i
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    ...y these mountains as a safe retreat from the power of our enemies. When we first came here we did not know that we could raise grain of any kind. Probably s ...he silver and gold which we have paid out for this article alone, since we first came into Utah, would have built several extensive cotton and woollen facto
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  • Journal of Discourses/10/53
    ...ce from one branch of learning to another, we never can be scholars of the first class and become endowed with the science, power, excellency, brightness an ...ip, or shall we, with all of our might, mind and strength, seek diligently first to build up the Kingdom of God? Let us decide on this, and do one thing or
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  • Journal of Discourses/10/58
    ...t require money. And if you do not get the water around the sand ridge the first year, you need not be discouraged, but continue the labor as you may be abl My brethren of the Presidency and the Twelve are with me in my desires to benefit and bless the people ga
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    ...ream of revelation from that day to this. Read the discourses of the first Presidency and the Twelve, and you will see that they are filled with revelation, with ...ned him. Let us be taught on these points, and be wise in our day, seeking first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, having our eyes on the mark, bein
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  • Journal of Discourses/26
    persecution. The First Presidency and many of the Apostles have had to
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    ...s emanated from God. They were given by revelation, and if we have a First Presidency, if we have High Priests, if we have Seventies, if we have Bishops, Elders, ...nd study yet." I thought so too. I thought if men could not understand the first two lines of the Bible, it would be quite a task to teach them the whole of
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  • Journal of Discourses/26/7
    ...or Bishop, Elder, Seventy, High Priest, or an Apostle, or one of the First Presidency—every man that does this God will take from him His gifts and His blessin ...to be a message from God—a message from God to us, that is to the First Presidency, and through us to the Church. We read the message, but could see nothing i
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  • Journal of Discourses/26/8
    ...nd come out here to live among the Redskins; for this was a desert when we first came here. It was not full of beautiful farms and houses, orchards and gard ...o Congress from Utah; Bishops Thos. R. Cutler and John E. Booth. After the first session of the council, in consequence of Hon. John T. Caine being required
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    ...among the people that would be calculated to promote the general good the first thing we do is to screw ourselves up and begin to inquire, How is that goin .... What is it? The Zion of God. What does it mean? The pure in heart in the first place. In the second place those who are governed by the law of God—the p
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  • Journal of Discourses/26/14
    ...nts of Stakes, as the case may be, or with the Apostles, or with the First Presidency; no matter which, or how, or when, or where. Now, if these men were walking ...in his position ought to be honored—the Twelve in their place, the First Presidency in their place—each one yielding proper respect and courtesy and kindness
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  • Journal of Discourses/26/15
    ...the prosperity of Zion. Many cases have come to the knowledge of the First Presidency and of the Twelve and of other leading men wherein people have been compell
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  • Journal of Discourses/26/18
    ...PRESENT STATE OF AFFAIRS—THE SIFTING PROCESS—THE EPISTLE OF THE FIRST PRESIDENCY—WORK OF GOD ALWAYS MET WITH OPPOSITION—THE GOSPEL REVEALED IN THIS DAY ...PRESENT STATE OF AFFAIRS—THE SIFTING PROCESS—THE EPISTLE OF THE FIRST PRESIDENCY—WORK OF GOD ALWAYS MET WITH OPPOSITION—THE GOSPEL REVEALED IN THIS DAY
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  • Journal of Discourses/26/19
    ...that I was really fearful in regard to my health. For five years after my first mission to the British Isles, I had never passed a night in sound and perfe ...n word than had heretofore been done. Communications were addressed to the Presidency of the Church, and by their consent a system of tract distribution was inau
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  • Journal of Discourses/26/35
    ...rch can do to magnify their callings. It is as much as the Apostles or the Presidency of the Church can do to comprehend their positions, and it needs continual ...eat work. We have, however, got a great deal more than that to do. We have first to learn ourselves the way of life; and then to teach others that way. Henc
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  • Journal of Discourses/26/36
    ...rd organization. But times have changed. We approach not now so easily the Presidency of the Church. We receive not their counsels with that facility that we hav
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  • Journal of Discourses/26/37
    We lament the absence of our brethren of the First Presidency, and several of the Council of the Twelve Apostles. We would be glad and th ...sive epistle that has been communicated to us by our brethren of the First Presidency, in which they seem to cover many of the circumstances which now attend upo
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  • Journal of Discourses/21/5
    ...lect upon our position, there is something peculiar associated with it. At first the Elders of this Church were told to go forth and preach the Gospel to ev ...ligence we possess in relation to these things. What did we know about the first principles of the Gospel? Nothing. What did we know about the gathering, or
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  • Journal of Discourses/21/7
    ...he Church as a whole. The word of the Lord to the Church comes through its presidency In the various stakes it comes through the authorities appointed there, and ...seekers. As I have said the men whom we voted to sustain this morning, the presidency of the stake, bishops, home missionaries, etc., did not call themselves, bu
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  • Journal of Discourses/21/9
    ...ory, for ever and ever. amen." That is a most comprehensive prayer. In the first place the God of the universe is recognized, our Father who is in the heave ...by that being who is the king and ruler, and the head of that government, first communicating his ideas, his principles, his laws, his government to the pe
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  • Journal of Discourses/21/13
    ...d has had an experience of this character. And it is true that many of the first trials, unless the mother watched very closely, would not be successful, th ...rations which would be familiar to you all. But the Gospel sets out in the first place with these two ideas, twin ideas, that never can be put asunder, the
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