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- ...e importance to many, are pregnant with meaning, are full of interest, and are of the utmost importance to the Saints that dwell in these valleys, and to ...t and precious principles of eternal truth, like pearls and precious gems, are often hid from the view of the human family.47 KB (8,783 words) - 14:52, 13 April 2024
- ...tize and do as I have done, prepare your backs for a good whipping, if you are such as the Lord loves. But if you will take my advice, you will stand by t ...ou did before you lost the Spirit of Christ; for when men apostatize, they are left to grovel in the dark.25 KB (4,857 words) - 14:52, 13 April 2024
- ...ith a company of his men, came there. This is a species of communism; they are called "Communists," believing, with Mr. Owen, in a community of goods. The ...ns, built school-houses, opened farms, and have organized a government and are prospering in all the blessings and immunities of civilized life. Not only39 KB (7,123 words) - 14:52, 13 April 2024
- ...nciples are really true and received from a proper source, or whether they are false. ...e find it among what are denominated the heathen nations—among those who are considered pagans, bowing down to worship images, the workmanship of their31 KB (5,845 words) - 14:52, 13 April 2024
- ...impression, for some length of time, that the sayings of modern men of God are of as great importance as the sayings of ancient men of God {{page break|19 ...true and living God—as God's representatives on the earth—as those who are destined to lay the foundation of that kingdom which shall stand for ever.31 KB (5,748 words) - 14:53, 13 April 2024
- ...edge of God, they are prone to forget him and to turn to their idols. They are prone to be froward in all their ways, very much like ourselves. ...though it may appear surprising and a matter hardly credible, yet even we are more or less under the power of traditions similar to those of the heathen.21 KB (3,951 words) - 14:53, 13 April 2024
- ...full of mercy, long-suffering, and patient to the froward and to those who are ignorant• There is a glory in our religion that no other religion that ha ...Great Ruler of the universe, is capable of devising that which we see and are well acquainted with. All mechanism, good government, wholesome principle,28 KB (5,349 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...might suppose women should possess and exhibit. In our own community there are plenty of ladies who, give them the entire control of their own domestic af ...nse their skill and knowlege to benefit themselves and the community: they are not coerced to lose one particle of time and ability.21 KB (4,046 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...ell for us to weigh, consider, and find out the real responsibilities that are resting upon us. ...and to associate with a people that were universally despised. And so they are now. But we have got along with it, so that we now care nothing about it. N25 KB (4,920 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...with the society of the Saints, and all his transactions and associations are with them. With that Spirit, a person placed in the society of the wicked, How many are there here who do not like to pass by a camp of emigrants, but much prefer,15 KB (2,843 words) - 14:55, 13 April 2024
- ...r induce me to become a public speaker. But the principles of eternal life are so engaging, so endearing, so lovely, so worthy of all acceptation, so swee ...s revelations, unless I am in the spirit by which they were dictated, they are lean to me to what they used to be when he was with us. They were rich, the16 KB (3,125 words) - 14:55, 13 April 2024
- ..., being alone; so is the body dead without the spirit. The spirit and body are the soul of man. It is the spirit of man that prompts to improvement—to p ...ever saw. This is a pretty place naturally; but now your roads and streets are occupied with your firewood, waggons, ploughs, harrows, stables, dunghills,4 KB (810 words) - 14:55, 13 April 2024
- ...arth. The Lord will bring out the results to his own honour and glory; but are we ready? ...of the earth and carried back from whence it came? My faith and my desire are that there should be a people upon the earth prepared to receive this wisdo27 KB (5,230 words) - 14:56, 13 April 2024
- ...wrestled all night; and when he found he could not throw him, he said, You are something more than a man, or I could throw you. But I will not let thee go ...e wilderness, and so peace was taken from their midst. Suppose you get the Christians now together and fetch them up here, and ask them to tell us which is the p16 KB (3,008 words) - 14:57, 13 April 2024
- ...n different nations, both in their social and political capacity; for they are in the vision of his mind. Who gave the ability to reflect and to behold th ...and deliver them into the hands of their families to be manufactured. Here are women who know how to spin, weave, and make the finest of cloth. So with th30 KB (5,856 words) - 14:57, 13 April 2024
- ...n, since I entered into this Church, my desire to be found among those who are valiant for the truth. ...e fully the mind and will of Heaven, and the ordinances of the Gospel that are necessary for the living and the dead.24 KB (4,641 words) - 14:57, 13 April 2024
- ...hen added, for the promise is to you and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even to as many as the Lord our God shall call. ...ient times, and in the words of many modern men, and many of our young men are made partakers of it by becoming members of the Church of Christ, and they49 KB (9,374 words) - 14:57, 13 April 2024
- ...hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true; and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, an ...cannot understand the things of God; they may read them, but to them they are shrouded in darkness.18 KB (3,425 words) - 14:57, 13 April 2024
- ...rest. According to the revelations given to us, it is a day upon which we are commanded to meet to break bread, to confess our faults to God and to one a ...e that we alone guide, govern and control our doings and their results. We are too apt to aspire to the power to control the whole world and to make all b29 KB (5,450 words) - 14:33, 13 April 2024
- ...have passed through this city before, though I presume the majority of you are strangers here, and, like other people, you want to see all there is to be ...ugh among them to gain the desired information. If you wish to know why we are here, it is simply because we had nowhere else to go; we were obliged to go12 KB (2,187 words) - 14:33, 13 April 2024
- ...brethren on a short trip north. I do this lest some might suppose that we are going to leave you. If we would live according to our acknowledgments in th ...raight path of duty; they are liable to do things they are sorry for; they are liable to make mistakes; and when they try to do their best, behold they do33 KB (6,456 words) - 14:34, 13 April 2024
- |H=COMMUNITIES ARE MADE UP OF FAMILY ORGANIZATIONS—THE MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIP INSTITUTED BY T |T=Journal of Discourses 26: COMMUNITIES ARE MADE UP OF FAMILY ORGANIZATIONS—THE MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIP INSTITUTED BY T45 KB (8,022 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024
- ...AN AGENCY—GOD FORESEEING THAT ADAM WOULD FALL PREPARED A REDEEMER.—WE ARE HERE ON THE EARTH TO PROVE OUR INTEGRITY AND TO OBTAIN A KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD ...AN AGENCY—GOD FORESEEING THAT ADAM WOULD FALL PREPARED A REDEEMER.—WE ARE HERE ON THE EARTH TO PROVE OUR INTEGRITY AND TO OBTAIN A KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD36 KB (6,802 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...HE EDMUNDS LAW PASSED WITH THE PRETENCE OF REPRESSING IMMORALITY AMONG THE MORMONS—THAT MASK OF HYPOCRISY NOW THROWN OFF—THE RELIGIOUS SENTIMENT OF THE LA ...HE EDMUNDS LAW PASSED WITH THE PRETENCE OF REPRESSING IMMORALITY AMONG THE MORMONS—THAT MASK OF HYPOCRISY NOW THROWN OFF—THE RELIGIOUS SENTIMENT OF THE LA49 KB (9,074 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...HE WORLD REGARDING THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS—OUR DOCTRINES ARE CHRISTIAN AND ARE SUBSTANTIATED BY THE SCRIPTURES—NECESSITY OF PRESENT REVELATION—FIRST P ...HE WORLD REGARDING THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS—OUR DOCTRINES ARE CHRISTIAN AND ARE SUBSTANTIATED BY THE SCRIPTURES—NECESSITY OF PRESENT REVELATION—FIRST P42 KB (7,641 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...—WE MUST MAINTAIN OUR FIDELITY TO THE TRUTH—RARITY OF CRIME AMONG THE "MORMONS"—PURITY OF "MORMON" HOMES—CHARACTER OF THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS ...—WE MUST MAINTAIN OUR FIDELITY TO THE TRUTH—RARITY OF CRIME AMONG THE "MORMONS"—PURITY OF "MORMON" HOMES—CHARACTER OF THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS22 KB (4,154 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- |<=[[../28|Refusal of So-called Christians to Receive the Gospel of Christ, etc.]] ...thren are serving out terms of imprisonment, but it is also true that they are thus afflicted not for wrongdoing but for conscience sake; and they do not16 KB (2,933 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- There are a few moments remaining, which it is desired I should occupy. ...now of middle age have grown up with this knowledge, and the youth to-day are in their turn acquiring the same knowledge, obtaining it through the means17 KB (3,072 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- ...in the deepest philosophy of love. The doing by others the things that we are not able to do for ourselves, is a divine principle the practice of which s ...g powers, the keys of which were restored to the Prophet Joseph by Elijah, are of no more avail than were they when Satan, followed by a third part of the41 KB (7,479 words) - 14:49, 13 April 2024
- |H=DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE LATTER—DAY SAINTS AND ALL OTHER PROFESSING CHRISTIANS ...es 21: DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE LATTER—DAY SAINTS AND ALL OTHER PROFESSING CHRISTIANS30 KB (5,683 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- ...its upon themselves, we learn that the power of evil is very great, and we are more given to it than to possess the Spirit of Christ. Yet the Spirit of th ...e Savior, but he was a prophet. As he said once, when some one asked him, "Are you the Savior?" "No, but I can tell you what I am—I am his brother." So32 KB (6,204 words) - 14:37, 13 April 2024
- ...of Mars-hill, he said," Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by and beheld your devotions, I found an Wherever the human family dwell upon the face of the earth, whether they are savage or civilised, there is a desire implanted within them to worship a g31 KB (5,725 words) - 14:34, 13 April 2024
- ...success were known to individuals here. We are glad to say of him. that we are proud of his labors. We can say this safely in his presence, for he has eno ...rstand the way of life and salvation, can sanctify themselves so that they are accepted of God our Father, and of Jesus Christ, his Son, our Elder Brother24 KB (4,551 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
- ...nother medium, and judge of them from another stand-point, than which they are generally viewed by the inhabitants of the earth. We look upon it that the There are a great many men in the world who, in the abstract, would say this is corre27 KB (4,981 words) - 14:34, 13 April 2024
- Things are as we see them to prove our integrity towards God and his cause; for everyt ...ou, Brother Brigham, and your brethren the Twelve Apostles, with those who are connected with you in the holy Priesthood, will rear a great and mighty fab9 KB (1,638 words) - 14:34, 13 April 2024
- ...brethren on a short trip north. I do this lest some might suppose that we are going to leave you. If we would live according to our acknowledgments in th ...raight path of duty; they are liable to do things they are sorry for; they are liable to make mistakes; and when they try to do their best, behold they do33 KB (6,358 words) - 14:34, 13 April 2024
- ...king for it. The faithful will exercise faith, and pray always for all who are within the reach of mercy. The good desire good to all. I have words to say ...disciples might be? If we are, then are we a happy people; if we are, then are we a powerful and influential people. Jesus had power to do many miracles s32 KB (6,237 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
- ...etter, is for our experience, and those who have wisdom, to decide. But we are here I do believe; I do not want anybody to pinch me, to know whether I am ...he whole world, is safer than that of any other people, no matter who they are nor where they live.30 KB (5,819 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
- ...rality; whereas if they only understood the truth, they would know that we are very independent on these points, and that we care no more about their noti ...and other churches and denominations of the day, we know what their ideas are religiously, and we did not leave them because we thought they were right,27 KB (5,032 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
- ...certain rights and privileges belonging to the Elders in Israel, and there are certain things that it is not their privilege to indulge in. You go through ...hem. Do not throw these things away, and say they must never be used; they are good to be used with judgment, prudence, and discretion. Ask our Bishops if14 KB (2,716 words) - 14:36, 13 April 2024
- These words—"If ye are not one ye are not mine"—are the words of the Savior, through the prophet Joseph, and given to us. This ...en in a moral point of view, take {{page break|57|top}} our young men, who are easily operated upon, do they know how to guide their steps so that a good28 KB (5,471 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
- ...e "Mormons," and I supposed the whole affair was a great humbug, that the "Mormons" were fanatics and very bad people. The days of my youth were days of relig ...before; and even now, whenever I search the Scriptures, I find things that are new to me, that I never understood nor comprehended before, although I have27 KB (4,986 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
- ...ral brothers when they come into my office, which is very seldom, if there are important matters on hand—when I am teaching the brethren the principles ...he Church; and others have been here with us all the day long, and if they are not filled with wisdom and the power of God it is their own fault.18 KB (3,570 words) - 14:36, 13 April 2024
- ...literal kingdom, a temporal kingdom and a spiritual kingdom; but while we are in a temporal state, and possess our temporalities, our abilities must corr ...wrote plainly in reference to this gathering, and we have believed it. We are called upon to come out from among the wicked, as it is written, "Come out28 KB (5,327 words) - 14:36, 13 April 2024
- ...elieve in the Lord Jesus Christ, as one of the principles of our faith; we are taught to repent of all our sins and to refrain from everything that is for ...that man, or some other raised up in the same manner, this people called "Mormons" or Latter-day Saints, now occupying this mountain territory, would have be36 KB (6,606 words) - 14:36, 13 April 2024
- ...in the habit of investigating the principles of the Gospel, and our minds are more or less occupied with affairs connected with the welfare of humanity, ...ficent churches and pay {{page break|13|top}} thousands of ministers; they are also very zealous in missionary labours, and contribute largely for the sup27 KB (5,004 words) - 14:37, 13 April 2024
- ...red to him, one of his first inquiries was, "Which of the denominations of Christians in the vicinity was right?" He was told they had all gone astray, they had ...d about a hundred members of his church, many of whom, and their children, are citizens of this Territory to-day. After this they continued their journey34 KB (6,021 words) - 14:36, 13 April 2024
- |H=THE SAINTS ARE A STRANGE PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY PRACTISE WHAT THEY PROFESS |T=Journal of Discourses 13: THE SAINTS ARE A STRANGE PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY PRACTISE WHAT THEY PROFESS31 KB (5,787 words) - 14:37, 13 April 2024
- ...to themselves the blessings of eternal life; they who secure eternal life are doers of the word as well as hearers. If we hear the word and do not perfor ...duties of life we can increase in knowledge, wisdom and understanding. We are thankful to see the increase that there is in the midst of the people.28 KB (5,396 words) - 14:38, 13 April 2024
- ...have plenty of strength there; but the organs of speech in this tabernacle are actually worn; but as I am feeling better I expect to meet with you more fr ...re, holy, just, and true; and those principles which the Lord has revealed are the only correct principles that man possesses on the earth. We may imagine15 KB (2,811 words) - 14:37, 13 April 2024