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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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    ...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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    ...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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    |>=[[../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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    |<=[[../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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    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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    "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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    ...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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    ...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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    ...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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    ...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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    ...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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    ...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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    ...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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    ...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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    ...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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    ...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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    ...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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    ...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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    |>=[[../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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    ...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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    ...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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    |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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    ...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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    ...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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    ...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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    ...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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    ...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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    ...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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    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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    ...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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    ...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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    ...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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    ...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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    ...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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    ...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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    ...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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    ...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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    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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    ...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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  • Journal of Discourses/21/29
    ...present time—that same spirit of revelation rests upon him who holds the presidency as senior apostle in the midst of the people of God. The apostles of this C ...eople of that country. I labored there for four or five years, and was the first to preach the Gospel to them in their language in this generation. During m
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    ...was delivered, and at a time when the Twelve Apostles were acting as First Presidency of the Church.] ...his quorum under him together and to instruct them as to the duties of the presidency, so that in the event of any being called, say, to occupy the office of one
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  • Journal of Discourses/19/8
    ...ny wagon loads; they were piled up in the corners and along the walls. The first time they went there the sword of Laban hung upon the wall; but when they w ...lve; he was the first man called when the Twelve were called; his name was first, Brigham Young's second, and Heber C. Kimball's third. The testimony that h
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  • Journal of Discourses/20/19
    ...there should not be any of these things in Zion." I agree with you. In the first place, you should not do wrong, or harbor or {{page break|160|top}} sustain ...the welfare of each other, that all may be encouraged and benefitted. The presidency of this Stake ought, and all ought to unite with them, in producing everyth
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  • Journal of Discourses/11/1
    ...s well as our late revelations. As a Conference had been appointed for the first day of September, I thought it wisdom not to do much more than to converse ...r baptism. But the Reformed Baptists held the doctrine which I believe was first preached in Ohio, by Sidney Rigdon, that a man must reform, that repentance
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    |>=[[../8|First Principles of the Gospel—Apostacy from the Primitive Faith and Restoratio ...y to the Zion of our God;—he who would try to weaken the counsels of the Presidency is an enemy in disguise, and unless he drives that spirit from his heart, h
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    My being one of the First Presidency of the Church does not excuse me from living my religion; but I should, on ...e can, by their wrong doing, bring sorrow and suffering upon us. The first Presidency, and thousands of others in this Church, are not guilty of crime; we have d
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    ...l upon. While we thus pray, we should be employed in sanctifying ourselves first, and then in redeeming and sanctifying the earth, for this the work we are ...hin the pale of our duty; and in addition to this, to live—for it is the first and foremost of all He requires of us—so that we shall know the voice of
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    ...rever he finds it. Some would rather receive the truth only from the First Presidency and the Twelve; but we should acknow-{{page break|144|top}}ledge it, let it ...hink of the great numbers who were baptized into this Church when the Work first commenced in England, and how few there are who have stood to this day:—"
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  • Journal of Discourses/11/48
    ...ave this work before us, it belongs to us; it does not belong to the First Presidency alone, or to the Twelve alone, or to the Bishops of wards, or to the Presid
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  • Journal of Discourses/11/49
    ...ent or religion than "Vox populi, vox dei." We believe in the voice of God first, and in the voice of the people afterwards, and that in political as well a ...t the affairs of the church aright. And what are the feelings of the First Presidency? Be ye one, O Israel! That is the feeling. One in everything; then we shall
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  • Journal of Discourses/11/53
    ...tance has worn heavily upon the lungs of our Elders, and especially of the Presidency, who have been under the necessity of speaking to very large audiences in t ...ds of the people on the "mark" given us by the President to preach to. The Presidency, in their instructions yesterday, brought our minds very clearly to the poi
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  • Journal of Discourses/12/5
    ...e Saints from the lowest to the highest, from the least in the land to the Presidency of the Church, which may God grant for Christ's sake. Amen.
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  • Journal of Discourses/12/8
    ...f truth and how to become useful in life, cannot be too highly prized. The Presidency and numbers of the elders have so many responsibilities of a public nature
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    ...Elders of Israel, High Priests, Seventies, the Twelve Apostles, the First Presidency, and all the House of Israel, hearken ye, O, my people! keep the word of th
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    ...obey the requirements of the law of God, and continue in faithfulness. The first object of our existence is to know and understand the principles of life, t ...blished in our newspapers. Let it be sent forth to the people, that on the first Thursday of each month, the fast day, all that would be eaten by husbands a
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    ...loth the naked. We expect to see the sisters there; for they are generally first and foremost in deeds of charity and kindness. Let the hearts of the poor b ...not be sanctioned by the heavens? The success which has attended me in my presidency is owing to the blessings and mercy of the Almighty. Why I have referred to
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  • Journal of Discourses/12/38
    ...particularly to eulogize the acts of bro. Kimball, who is one of the First Presidency, and who stands, or who has stood as one of the three prominent men that li ...l sound the trump we shall be prepared to come forth in the morning of the first resurrection.
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  • Journal of Discourses/13/8
    ...ons, which were given to the Prophet, Joseph Smith, in February, 1831. The first is paragraph 4 of section XIII: ...th the Church, yet they will cling, in most instances, to what we term the first principles of the Gospel of Christ; and it is a very rare thing to see thos
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    ...thirty-six or thirty-seven years have elapsed since these principles were first revealed, they have never been lost sight of by the President and those ass ...Saints; the country was a healthy one when compared with what it was when first settled by the Saints. Many philanthropic men in France were interested in
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    ...st open the door and surrounded the bed in an instant, and, as I said, the first I knew, I was going out of the door in the hands of an infuriated mob. I ma ..., to the night air, caused its death This murdered child was doubtless the first martyr of the last dispensation.
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  • Journal of Discourses/13/47
    ...reiterated in our ears, and scarcely a meeting has been held by the First Presidency, the Twelve Apostles, or any of the Elders of Israel in which this subject ...e Lord, it was like seed planted in the heart; its influence and effect at first were not very powerful; but if it were planted in the heart, by and by it b
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  • Journal of Discourses/14/3
    ...y, have we advanced in fulfilling it; and it really seems that some of the first commandments given to the Church are amongst the last obeyed. I realize the Many years ago efforts were made on the part of the Presidency to extend the settlements into the warm valleys south of the rim of the Bas
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    ...nts, to bless every quorum and organization of his kingdom, from the First Presidency down to the last organization to promote good in the midst of his people. I
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    In the first place, I want to say to the Elders who go forth to preach the Gospel—no m ..., or fifteen thousand dollars. I did not know where I was going to get the first dollar; but I did just as I always do—my duty and trusted in God. I had n
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    ...ationships of time and eternity; and as we progress, these ideas which, at first, were a little dim and obscure, become more vivid, real, life-like, tangibl ...ing to the proportion of the Holy Spirit they enjoy. Witness now the First Presidency of this Church. Who could labor more arduously than they? Where is there a
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    ...Brigham, the President of the Twelve Apostles, who were then acting as the Presidency of the Church.
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  • Journal of Discourses/15/4
    ...How do you think I look after my long confinement? (Congregation replied, "First rate.") I do not rise expecting to preach a discourse or sermon, or to leng ...o was stump-speeching through the country and proclaiming his right to the Presidency "He that most desires an office is the least fit for it." Perhaps I made a
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    ...ica, for that was the land of Zion—and America is the land of Zion—the first this Elder would know, somebody or other would be up in a meeting and telli ...am Young that makes them one; it is neither the high council nor the First Presidency that makes them one, but it is the power of God unto salvation that makes t
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  • Journal of Discourses/15/20
    ...ome into the Church through the administration of what is called the First Presidency at the present {{page break|136|top}} time; consequently our work shows for ...would do it now if David were willing; but he is not, he places his mother first and foremost, and would take her counsel sooner than he would the counsel o
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    ...exaltation; but no person can be exalted in the kingdom of heaven without first submitting himself to the rules, regulations, laws and ordinances of that k ...justice, and they have got to judge the case at last." Why not do this at first, and say we will arbitrate this case, and we will have no lawsuit, and no d
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    My first acquaintance with brother Pitt was of such a character as to cause the form ...that I became acquainted with brother Pitt. Brother Taylor and I were the first two of the Quorum of the Twelve who arrived in England in 1840. Brother Tay
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  • Journal of Discourses/16/1
    Now how was this common property to be used? First, the Saints needed land, they needed means to build habitations; they neede ...de this arrangement by law—that every man should be considered a steward first, and prove himself a wise steward before he could be entitled to an everlas
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    ...n this opportunity of meeting with my brethren of the Twelve and the First Presidency, and beholding them mostly in the enjoyment of good health. ...ared that scourges in the shape of sickness shall be sent forth, beginning first at his house, and from thence they shall spread and make the nations quake.
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    ...cted either directly or indirectly with the mission of the Apostles in the first century. ...vicinity of this city is a colony of about six hundred Germans, under the presidency of D. V. Christopher Hoffman, who consider themselves the spiritual temple
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  • Journal of Discourses/16/21
    ...er there was one hundreth part of the information communicated, during the first forty years of the existence of ancient Zion, which has been communicated t ...had when they came forth out of Egypt, the knowledge of the Gospel, of its first principles—even that knowledge seems to have been taken from them, and a
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  • Journal of Discourses/16/24
    |>=[[../25|Visit of the Presidency to the Northern Settlements]] ...eing broken upon the earth. The Priesthood has left the people, but in the first place the people left the Priesthood. They transgressed the laws, changed t
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  • Journal of Discourses/16/25
    |H=VISIT OF THE PRESIDENCY TO THE NORTHERN SETTLEMENTS |T=Journal of Discourses 16: VISIT OF THE PRESIDENCY TO THE NORTHERN SETTLEMENTS
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    |<=[[../25|Visit of the Presidency to the Northern Settlements]] ...darkness. This light, truth and intelligence can only be obtained, in the first place, by obedience to the laws of God; and, in the second place, it can on
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    ...ood husband. You must be obedient. Obe-{{page break|248|top}}dience is the first law of heaven. Without it the elements could not be control[l]ed. Without i ...man or woman to ignorantly obey the counsels that are given? Do the first Presidency require it? No, never. What do they desire? That we may have our minds open
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    ...emies. Circulate among the people our publications. Let the sermons of the Presidency and of the Apostles, that are published in the Deseret News, be read in eve
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  • Journal of Discourses/19/5
    |<=[[../4|Saints Should be Whole-hearted—Seek First the Kingdom—The Latter-day Work a Revelation—Joseph Smith Illiterate— ...break|31|top}} Holy Spirit, that shall rest more especially upon the First Presidency of thy Church; that thou wilt reveal to them the pattern of this building,
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  • Journal of Discourses/19/10
    ...the Presidents of the Stakes, in their turn are presided over by the First Presidency and the Twelve; thus all are amenable to proper authority in their various We have frequently heard that "Order is heaven's first law." In no earthly government is there so much order evinced as in the Chu
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  • Journal of Discourses/19/13
    ...ief Societies of this Stake of Zion to hear reports, and comments from the Presidency, the Secretaries, and from those that they would call upon to speak. I lear The first thing I am going to introduce to my sisters is the condition of this commun
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  • Journal of Discourses/19/16
    ...t sail, rudder or oar; and you know not whither you are going." But we run first this way, and then that way, turning here and turning there, strewing our w (The Presidency of the Stake were then unanimously elected—namely, Oliver G. Snow as Pres
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  • Journal of Discourses/19/17
    ...concerning them, putting his name before the people as a candidate for the Presidency of the United States, and the recommendations which he made to save them fr ...here already there seems to be almost a majority of the early Apostles and first Elders of the Church, preaching the Gospel and preparing the hearts of thos
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  • Journal of Discourses/19/19
    ...../20|The Savior Among the Nephites—Printing of the Book of Mormon—The Presidency of the Church—The Ancient Priesthood—The Kirtland Temple]] ...appealed very strongly unto all of us, and impressed us with their truth. First, he has said if our professions are greater than those of the rest of the w
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    |H=THE SAVIOR AMONG THE NEPHITES—PRINTING OF THE BOOK OF MORMON—THE PRESIDENCY OF THE CHURCH—THE ANCIENT PRIESTHOOD—THE KIRTLAND TEMPLE ...s 19: THE SAVIOR AMONG THE NEPHITES—PRINTING OF THE BOOK OF MORMON—THE PRESIDENCY OF THE CHURCH—THE ANCIENT PRIESTHOOD—THE KIRTLAND TEMPLE
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    ...../20|The Savior Among the Nephites—Printing of the Book of Mormon—The Presidency of the Church—The Ancient Priesthood—The Kirtland Temple]]
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  • Journal of Discourses/19/22
    ...ition we occupy to-day is a very important one. There has been a change of Presidency, and necessarily a change of administration. In the providence of God our h ...ood in the heavens, of which we are a part, belonging to the Church of the First Born, whose names are written in heaven. They are interested in their child
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    It is the first time that I have been permitted to meet with you since the death of our bel ...se He has delegated his authority to man, as described in the Scriptures, "first, Apostles, secondarily Prophets," etc, that the Saints might be perfected,
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  • Journal of Discourses/19/26
    ...les till God revealed it? Nothing. We talk about the Patriarchs, the First Presidency; who knew of them till God revealed it? No one? The High Priests, Seventies ...aints, till we hardly know sometimes why we do so, but we do. We built our first Temple in Kirtland, then one at Nauvoo, and laid the foundation for one at
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    ...for many years. It has been organised upwards of forty-seven years. When I first received the Gospel I did not expect forty-seven years to pass away before ...the government of this Stake? Certainly not. If any person other than the Presidency should profess to receive revelations for its government, would you conside
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  • Journal of Discourses/19/35
    ...g in my carriage through Emigration Canyon into this valley, which was the first time he set foot upon this land. The question has been often asked by stran ...in the New Testament, which principles never deviate one from another. The first was faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; the second was baptism in water by imme
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    ...ON FOR THE GUIDANCE OF THE CHURCH COMES THROUGH THE HEAD—AS TO THE FIRST PRESIDENCY ...ON FOR THE GUIDANCE OF THE CHURCH COMES THROUGH THE HEAD—AS TO THE FIRST PRESIDENCY
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  • Journal of Discourses/19/37
    ...as universally the case, and they hardly knew why it was, that among their first desires after their confirmation, was a wish to gather to Zion; and no one ...oolish to other people, but to us it is both consistent and necessary. The first Temple we built was in Kirtland, Ohio; the next was in Nauvoo, Illinois, an
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    ...nd and will and revelations of God, made known to the human family, in the first place to Joseph Smith, and through him to others. And when the Elders of th ...for the accomplishment of this purpose, he selected Joseph Smith to be the first Apostle in his Church: he was called "not by the will of man," nor by the p
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  • Journal of Discourses/20/1
    ...ave arrived at middle age, will let your minds revert to the time when you first heard these principles, and will compare the condition of human thought at ...object of his life to furnish employment to every man under his immediate presidency who may desire it. And thus we will preserve ourselves, and our sons will f
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    ...on of our being here; and, therefore, as Latter-day Saints, it becomes our first and most paramount duty to build up the church and kingdom of God upon the ...hat will secure the favor and approbation of the Most High; always seeking first the interests of the kingdom of God and the flock that God has given them t
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    ...s being manufactured, from which boots and shoes and harness are made. The first thing started in relation to these things was co-operation. President Young
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  • Journal of Discourses/20/10
    ...hey have become experts in preaching spiritual salvation, in preaching the first principles of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ; in telling the people ho ...ar as that which animated Herod of old when he issued an edict for all the first-born male children of Israel to be slain. It created terror in the land; an
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    ...empt to establish the Church while translating those records. This was the first duty required at his hands—namely, to translate from the plates of gold, The Lord did not see proper, at the first, to give us the fulness of the authority that he afterwards revealed. He ga
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  • Journal of Discourses/20/21
    ...revelations to Joseph Smith; and placed them upon the foundation that was first laid by Joseph Smith under the immediate revelations of the Lord. And God e
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    ...ostle and was ranked as the chief Apostle in his day, holding the keys and presidency to bind on the earth and loose in heaven; but he ranked himself among the E ...ound thereof in the distance, have gone in search of it, have captured the first ray that penetrated their minds and followed it until it has led them final
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    ...old the principles of eternal truth; and then when people had received the first principles of the Gospel, to teach them and more fully instruct them in the ...al principles. And hence we have our church organized upon this basis, our presidency, our apostles, our seventies, our high priests, our elders, our high counci
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    ...polygamy was one of the jobs he was undertaking. He tried his hand at this first, but on finding that it took two years for his army to reach the field of t From the firing of the first gun the demon of war seemed to inspire the contending parties with the most
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    ...e of gathering. We are gathered here under peculiar circumstances. But our first object was simple obedience to the Gospel. There are circumstances growing ...His servant Joseph Smith and he declared it unto us. Now, how was it? The first thing that was done, when the word of God came to us to do it—for there w
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  • Journal of Discourses/18
    ...years we have been indebted for the reports of the discourses of the First Presidency, the Twelve Apostles and others. His death being the cause of the temporary
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  • Journal of Discourses/17/10
    ...here is nothing new in the doctrine of a people being self-sustaining. The first Napoleon introduced into France what is known as the "Continental system," ...the biggest meeting I ever attended in Ogden City, along with some of the Presidency and Twelve and others, and I never saw more unanimity among the people on a
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    ..., the Church was organized, he with his two counselors comprised the First Presidency. In a few years the Quorum of the Twelve was organized, the High Counsel wa ...that from the first time I had fifty cents after I came into the Church my first desire was to know what to do with it. In the days of Joseph where we lived
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    ...ut the Latter-day Saints are to a very great extent. Why? Because the very first thing that God did with us was to get us converted, to get us baptized and ...can bring this latter about? Some speculative theory? No. We want, in the first place, to have our hearts united to God; we want to have the Spirit of God
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    ...earched out by the faithful, but that it was a doctrine numbered among the first principles of the oracles of God. I will now, leaving the principles of the ...nt Nephites, another portion delivered over to the Saints who lived in the first ages of the world, another portion to the Saints who lived after the flood,
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    ...e plan of salvation which he has revealed; and if we have profited by that first lesson we have been continually progressing, learning new truths, new to us ...r to prepare ourselves for the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. One of the first teachings or revelations that was given to this church after its organizati
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    ...ght in his day and generation. When I heard this Gospel I embraced it. The first sermon I ever heard the Spirit of God bore record to me that it was true, a ...id to them—"If I knew that I should have a ball put through my heart the first step I took in the State of Missouri I would go." I went, and I did not get
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    ...n our power to preserve our lives and those of our children, we do depend, first of all, upon faith in the holy Gospel, the administration of its ordinances ...another, and cultivate a spirit of charity towards all. We consider it our first duty to keep from acting selfishly or from covetous motives, and we will se
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  • Journal of Discourses/18/1
    ...ot, really and truly, a kingdom of Priests? Do you not belong to the First Presidency, the Twelve, the High Priests, the High Council, the Elders, Priests, Teach ...I was the father of these folks I should go to them first, seek after them first." But no matter, let them operate and us operate, and God operate, and don'
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    ...k of God, and it is so to-day. Brother Kimball also stepped into the first Presidency, and we called others and ordained them to take our place for the time bein ...l the inhabitants of the earth were, to-day, in the same position that our first parents were in when they were placed in the Garden. Here is the naked eart
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    ...themselves profess to be associated, more or less, with the Church of the first-born, with Jesus, whom Paul calls the Mediator of the New Covenant, and wit ...principle of right. We remember the time very well, or most of us, when we first entered into this Church, if a man was found lying he would be brought befo
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    ...re could be a kingdom of God, there must be a Church of God, and hence the first principles of the Gospel were needed to be preached to all nations, as they ...was desirous of introducing his kingdom upon the earth, and he had in the first place, to organize his Church, to organize the people that he had scattered
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    |>=[[../21|Restoration of the Gospel, Probable and Spiritual—Sent First to the Gentiles, Then to Israel—This is a Gathering Dispensation, or the ...our mind, more particularly, on the present occasion, will be found in the first verse that I read—"In that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book.
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    ...it, we know nothing only as it was communicated. We did not understand the first principles of the doctrine of Christ even; and I have never met with anybod ...or with whom we are associated, was to send his Gospel, having revealed it first to Joseph Smith, and he, being authorized by the Almighty, and having recei
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  • Journal of Discourses/18/25
    ...w by obedience to the Gospel. Brother Staines referred to the time when it first became a matter of concern to him to know whether the principles of the Gos ...ir councils, and high councils, for the accomplishment of his purposes. He first institutes baptism for the remission of sins, then the laying on of hands f
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  • Journal of Discourses/18/27
    ...time; its ordinances and laws are always the same, worlds without end. The first principles of the Gospel taught from the dawn of creation, are faith, repen ...would be to day, what it was on the 24th of July, 1847, when the pioneers first set foot on its soil—a barren, desolate land, unfit for the habitation of
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  • Journal of Discourses/18/30
    ...think {{page break|239|top}} about them morning, noon and night; they are first in our minds when we awake in the morning, and the last thing before we go ...eived the keys of the Melchisedek Priesthood, and organized the Church. He first received the power to baptise, and still did not know that he was to receiv
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  • Journal of Discourses/18/35
    ...s have appeared through Christendom, all claiming the same rights that the first reformers exercised, in correcting what they believed to be wrong and unscr ...in, and we are indebted to him for his direction and instruction from its first inception to the present time, and we shall be thus indebted, from this tim
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  • Journal of Discourses/18/37
    ...their brethren. But then, if they held responsible positions, such as the Presidency of the Church, or a counsellorship, or if they belonged to the Quorum of th ...en sustained in this dispensation by President Young and his brethren. The Presidency of this Church have always been mindful of the poor, in donating themselves
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  • Journal of Discourses/18/42
    The present existing nations represent two things—first, in a governmental capacity, they represent the feet and toes of the great ...ft to other people." The four kingdoms which preceded it were transferred, first to one nation, and then to another, until the image was complete, until hum
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  • Journal of Discourses/18/46
    ...in a modern revelation, holds the power to commune with the Church of the First-born that are in heaven, and that too not in a spiritual sense alone; or, a ...rection and according to their instruction, as Bishops to officiate in the Presidency of the lower Priesthood. This order has been followed ever since the Lord r
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  • Journal of Discourses/22/2
    ...ng the foundation of Zion and for the Priesthood, and for the debts of the Presidency of my Church; and this shall be the beginning of the Tithing of my people; ...thereof have to render an account to the Presidency of the Church; and the Presidency of the Church ought to be able at all times to render an account to their H
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  • Journal of Discourses/25/19
    ...is expected to reflect their feelings and spirit upon the people under his presidency. And I must say I feel pleased with the spirit that seems to prevail in thi ...erally, and upbraid not. But all cannot be Apostles. Some have to take the presidency in different ages. Enoch was chosen in his day, and Abraham and Moses in th
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  • Journal of Discourses/22/4
    |>=[[../5|The Organization of the First Presidency, etc.]] ...y the Urim and Thummim, by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost. This was the first authority conferred upon the one whom the Lord chose to commence this great
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  • Journal of Discourses/22/5
    |H=THE ORGANIZATION OF THE FIRST PRESIDENCY, ETC. |T=Journal of Discourses 22: THE ORGANIZATION OF THE FIRST PRESIDENCY, ETC.
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  • Journal of Discourses/22/6
    |<=[[../5|The Organization of the First Presidency, etc.]] ...God. These chosen disciples of Christ suffered ignominious deaths from the first to the last, with the single exception of the Apostle John, who we are info
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  • Journal of Discourses/22/18
    ..., to see the Son of God, the Only Begotten of the Father on the earth, the First Born in the spirit world, a person of His high exaltation and glory, condes ...les of the Gospel of the Son of God. I wish to say to our leading men, the Presidency of this Church, the Twelve Apostles, the Presidents of Stakes and their Cou
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  • Journal of Discourses/22/21
    ...when I say this I speak the sentiments of Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, the Presidency of this Church, the Twelve Apostles, and all the Elders of Israel. This is ...l the prophecies that are before you be fulfilled, The Gospel was preached first to the Jews and then to the Gentiles, The Jews rejected the message: the Ge
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  • Journal of Discourses/22/24
    ...ry, shall be tried or condemned for any crime, save it be before the First Presidency of the Church." ...Bishops to be set apart unto the Church, to minister even according to the first;
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  • Journal of Discourses/22/25
    ...death, and the Apostles and the Priesthood taken home to God—he was the first and only man that ever attempted to establish the Gospel of Jesus Christ ac ...Lord unto us. The Lord said in the beginning, some fifty years ago, in the first revelation almost which was given to us, that the harvest was ripe, and tha
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  • Journal of Discourses/22/32
    ...s in regard to the things of the kingdom. The Spirit of the Lord should be first, the life, the energy that should propel us to the performance of our tempo ...m properly and rightly. If a man is endowed with the Holy Ghost; if he has first and foremost the kingdom of God and the righteousness of our heavenly Fathe
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  • Journal of Discourses/22/34
    ...my parents joined the Church, but I learned to read very early. Among the first questions I remember asking my father was in relation to the Apostles and t ...ve ordained Apostles after Apostles, for, as Paul has said, God has placed first in the Church, Apostles. The Church of Christ is not perfect without Apostl
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  • Journal of Discourses/22/35
    ...as much as the son of the merchant, the doctor, or the sons of the Twelve, Presidency of Stakes, Bishops of Wards, etc.; the same responsibility rests upon all w ...ous of responding to every call made upon them. They may feel timid at the first, as I believe all men do to a greater or less extent; but the right spirit
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  • Journal of Discourses/22/39
    ...Mediator of the New Covenant, with the general assembly and Church of the First Born; and while they are operating there, we are operating here. For this r ...nd the Gospel to every creature under heaven, and for this we have a First Presidency; for this we have the Twelve Apostles; for this we have some seventy times
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  • Journal of Discourses/22/40
    ...himself have had a knowledge of those things which he communicated to our first parents, or he could not have revealed them. Among other things which the L ...the last times. If there was anything associated with the Apostleship and Presidency that existed in the days of Jesus, or that existed on this continent, it wo
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  • Journal of Discourses/22/41
    ...in him. If, for instance, I was living here and was raising a family, the first thing which I should do would be to dedicate myself and my family, my house ...he kind of feeling we want to be educated in, and we want to start with it first in ourselves. As fathers and as mothers we want to do right; and as childre
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  • Journal of Discourses/23/3
    |>=[[../4|Travels of the First Presidency and the Twelve, etc.]] ...ir sustenance; and this we did. Now, had we landed in a place like this at first, it would have been more difficult, people would have become more discourag
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  • Journal of Discourses/23/4
    |H=TRAVELS OF THE FIRST PRESIDENCY AND THE TWELVE—TEMPORAL AND SPIRITUAL CONDITION OF THE SAINTS—THEIR EDU |T=Journal of Discourses 23: TRAVELS OF THE FIRST PRESIDENCY AND THE TWELVE—TEMPORAL AND SPIRITUAL CONDITION OF THE SAINTS—THEIR EDU
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  • Journal of Discourses/23/5
    |<=[[../4|Travels of the First Presidency and the Twelve, etc.]] ...ortal and all the blessings associated therewith. And when this Gospel was first proclaimed in this age, who knew anything about it? Nobody; it was not and
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  • Journal of Discourses/23/7
    A First Presidency was also organized to preside over the whole Church in all the world. Then ...ey can fix it. And I would be ready to say, as one said of old, Thou fool, first take the beam out of thine own eye, that thou mayest see the more clearly t
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  • Journal of Discourses/23/15
    ...ineteenth century were as precious in the sight of God as they were in the first century of the Christian Era, or at any time anterior to that era; because ...ncerity there is a faith and a knowledge that this work is of God, and the Presidency believe this as much as the humblest man in the Church and more too. It is
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  • Journal of Discourses/23/22
    ...e Latter-day Saints. The promise of God to ancient Israel contained in the first text sets forth the purposes of Jehovah in choosing the seed of Abraham esp ...he highest to the lowest. As has been often taught us that the keys of the presidency of this Apostleship represent the highest authority conferred upon man in t
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  • Journal of Discourses/23/24
    ...f death. The inspiration and guidance of the Holy Spirit have prompted the Presidency and Apostles of this Church to open meeting-houses and Tabernacles for mini
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  • Journal of Discourses/23/25
    ...of the Stake does not attend to this duty, then it devolves upon the First Presidency to see that no iniquity exists in the Church. And when these things are don
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  • Journal of Discourses/23/34
    ...aints. The republican party had this view of the case, no doubt, when they first announced this noted plank. Further experience and knowledge among the peop ..., potentates and religious teachers would betake themselves to the task of first seeking the light of heaven upon this question, and would then strive to en
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  • Journal of Discourses/23/36
    ...d to be built, it was on the 8th of July, 1838, that the Lord gave for the first time to this people, through the Prophet Joseph Smith the law on the subjec ...of the foundation of Zion and for the Priesthood, and for the debts of the Presidency of my Church.
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  • Journal of Discourses/23/37
    ...in introducing the prin-{{page break|322|top}}ciples of the Gospel. In the first place He has Himself spoken to us from the heavens, as also has His Son Jes ...not a man living in the world outside of this Church who could perform the first ceremony in a Temple of the Lord of Hosts, and we would not ourselves have
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  • Journal of Discourses/23/42
    ...number of similar communications, each one setting forth his claim to the presidency of the Church, and to the prophetic office; and some of them requiring us t ...authority to do so. And that authority was not conferred upon him when he first saw angels and had some of the gifts of which I have spoken. It required th
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  • Journal of Discourses/24/5
    ...}} and expedient that it be righted; and this applies quite as much to the Presidency, the Twelve and the leading authorities as to any other individual in the C ...oad." That is, it is the duty of High Priests to preside; the principle of Presidency is connected with them. You have a High Priests' Quorum over which Brother
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  • Journal of Discourses/24/14
    ...lligence and glory in His kingdom. Surely all Saints who have been making "first the kingdom of God and His righteousness," their aim and study, cannot fail ...y—who are closely allied to the powers behind the veil; and they are the first to receive the mind and will of God, and communicate the same to the Church
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  • Journal of Discourses/24/17
    ...he Gospel, He designed that we should obey these laws. He taught us in the first place that it was necessary to have faith in Jesus Christ, then to be bapti ...oman in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; going on from the first principles to perfection, carrying out in our lives all the laws that God h
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  • Journal of Discourses/24/22
    ...ty becomes more and more divided. It is an impossibility now for the First Presidency to attend to anything but general matters of business, giving general instr ...Smith stated it in the outset before the Church itself was organized. The first Elders of this Church bore similar testimony when but six members comprised
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  • Journal of Discourses/24/23
    ...st, and therefore assume the right to dictate and direct the labors of the Presidency and Twelve, and undertake to correct and set them right and to show them wh ...e Lord, it was necessary therefore that some one should be selected as the first Elder for the beginning of this work, for there has to be a beginning, and
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  • Journal of Discourses/24/31
    ...duty of the First Presidency to call them to an account, and if the First Presidency do not do their duty, it becomes God our heavenly Father, or Jesus the Medi ...his first offense, and he has not sinned in this wise before. If it is his first offense, and he repents, he shall be forgiven, but if he does it a second t
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  • Journal of Discourses/24/33
    When we came here and first made our laws, realizing that we were far away from the mass of the people ...ch a good school master, "Do, pray, President let him stop." Now, when the Presidency want a man to go on a mission, he ought to go. It is best for that man that
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  • Journal of Discourses/24/39
    If the Saints would make it their first and leading purpose in all the labors and duties of their lives to draw nea ...iment that should pervade all the authorities of the Church from the First Presidency down to the President of your Stake, the High Councilors and the Bishops of
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  • Journal of Discourses/24/40
    When we came here and first made our laws, realizing that we were far away from the mass of the people ...ch a good school master, "Do, pray, President let him stop." Now, when the Presidency want a man to go on a mission, he ought to go. It is best for that man that
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  • Journal of Discourses/24/42
    ...ifice to the Lord; and the Lord accepted his offering. Cain offered up the first fruits of the earth. He was going to be, as I have said, a religious "cuss, ...we are organized. We have our quorums of various kinds. We have the First Presidency; we have the Twelve; we have the {{page break|352|top}} Presidents of Stake
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  • Journal of Discourses/24/43
    ...ing authorities, to the Presidents of your Stakes, to the Apostles, to the Presidency of the Church, what is there about you that would excite opposition? What i
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  • Journal of Discourses/24/44
    For a number of weeks past the First Presidency of the Church have been traveling through the various settlements, and such ...every reason to believe it never was restored after it was withdrawn. The first that we knew concerning God, was through the testimony of the Prophet Josep
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  • Journal of Discourses/25/3
    ...retensions of the people called "Mormons." From the time that Joseph Smith first declared that he had had a vision of the Father and the Son—from that tim ...t is very evident that John the Baptist was not only the forerunner of His first coming, but also of His second advent. The Scriptures are plain on this mat
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  • Journal of Discourses/25/13
    ...I have been thankful only once since I went to the Sandwich Islands on my first mission, and that has been ever since. ...ian language. He performed a glorious mission, and is now one of the First Presidency of the Church. And singular as it may appear, out of the number of Elders t
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  • Journal of Discourses/25/14
    ...rain, and as a clincher to his opinion offered $1,000 as a premium for the first ear of corn that should be raised in this valley. But the faith which susta The first important movement of the pioneer company on setting foot upon this ground
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  • Journal of Discourses/25/18
    AT the request of the Presidency of Davis Stake of Zion, I have delivered two lectures in each of the Wards The first revelation that Joseph Smith received from the Lord, was that men were teac
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  • Journal of Discourses/25/23
    ..., as it was said by one of old, "To the general assembly and church of the first born, which are written in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the ...ers and Deacons; and associated with the Melchisedec Priesthood, the First Presidency, the Twelve, the High Council, High Priests, Seventies and Elders, and all
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  • Journal of Discourses/25/26
    ...e Lord has been with me. The promises that were sealed upon my head by the Presidency before I went have been literally fulfilled, and, to my mind, in a most rem ...estimony of the truth of the Gospel, and from the time that I received the first one until this moment, one testimony has followed another in rapid successi
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  • Journal of Discourses/25/27
    ...r as we can do so without interfering with the rights of other people. The first amendment to the Constitution of the United States says: "Congress shall pa ...s we expect it will be Himself—Jesus of Nazareth, our Elder Brother, the first born of God in the spirit world, the Only Begotten of God in the flesh. We
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  • Journal of Discourses/25/28
    ...d many of them, we are told, in the streets of the holy city. That was the first resurrection. The second resurrection is the resurrection of the just, when ...city with them. The resurrection was not until Christ came and became the first fruits of them that slept.
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  • Journal of Discourses/25/32
    ...nd then the instructions which you have heard read were given by the First Presidency. We find you have a very good country, and are pleased to see you as comfor
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  • Journal of Discourses/25/38
    ...ply messengers of life and salvation to a fallen world. What are the First Presidency, the Twelve, the High Priests, the Seventies, and the Elders to-day? What a Thus a law was first passed by Congress, which has been perverted by the administration, by all
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  • Journal of Discourses/25/41
    ...ed by the Spirit of the living God. Hence it becomes the duty of the First Presidency to look after all these things, and sometimes, under peculiar circumstances ...that such a state of things would exist. I remember when I had the Gospel first preached to me before I was baptized, I heard a lecture something like this
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  • Question: Did Joseph and others with him remove their garments in order to avoid being identified as polygamists?
    They were out by appointment from the Presidency of the Church in the interests of the young womans Journal. ...sociated with it] is conditioned upon worthiness and faithfulness." (First Presidency Letter, 10 October 1988; see ''Ensign'', August 1997, 19-).
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 7
    |L8=Response to claim: 100 - The First Presidency said, "The most reliable way to measure the accuracy of any biblical passag ...sing. There is no presentation of statistics, only the anecdotal idea that first, LDS members do not read the Bible and are not familiar with it, and second
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 8
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 13
    ...ly condemned for containing false doctrine. In a Proclamation of the First Presidency and Twelve, dated October 21, 1865, the Church said: ...ublish what may be termed new doctrines, without consulting with the First Presidency of the Church respecting them, places himself in a false position, and expo
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Mormonism 101/Chapter 18
    ...counsel, is a foolish and destructive path. Literally, 90 percent of these first pages are quotes from Church leaders. For example, Gordon B. Hinckley, is q ...on the other hand, the authors take a position in direct opposition to the first, by suggesting that we should not put our lives in the prophets' hands; imp
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  • Plan of salvation/Sons of Perdition
    ...rtal body is raised to an immortal body, that is from death, even from the first death unto life, that they can die no more; their spirits uniting with thei ...a sinner or not. All will receive a share in the resurrection--not in the first resurrection, but they will be resurrected, and will be brought before the
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Three Witnesses/The Three Witnesses
    ...d us that his name was John, formerly called John the Baptist. He ordained first Joseph by laying his hands upon his head, and then he ordained me in the sa Smith's growing reliance on [[Sidney Rigdon]] as his first counselor,
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  • Book of Mormon/Geography/Statements/Twentieth century
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1827 to 1830/051909
    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./1838 to 1839/051909
    ...The two sources both refer to the Danites being responsible to the ''First Presidency''. ...us crime in the church....Avard told his men that they 'should support the presidency in all their designs, right or wrong.'"
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./1839 - 1844/051909
    These first trickled, then flooded, into Nauvoo, raising Smith's spirits. ...was foreshadowed in the ''Book of Mormon,'' where the brother of Jared saw first the Lord's finger." (Bushman, p.&nbsp;420) Bushman then cites Paulsen in an
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Death/051909
    ...mong the dissidents was William Law, Smith's second counselor in the First Presidency, who was well respected in the Mormon community. *Ostlings, 14. Law had taken Hyrum Smith's place in the First Presidency as second counselor.
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/Joseph Smith, Jr./Legacy/051909
    *See: [[Succession in the Presidency of the Church]] As the senior surviving member of the First Presidency, Sidney Rigdon had a strong claim to leadership. Although his relationship
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  • Forgeries/Mark Hofmann/Church reaction to forgeries/Church statement 31 July 1987
    The following statement was issued 31 July 1987 by the First Presidency and read by Richard P. Lindsay, managing director of the Church Public Comm
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  • Book of Mormon geography/Statements/First Presidency Letter
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  • Times and Seasons/2/2
    ...ghteous) rise from the dust, and the blessed millions of the church of the first born, shout his triumphant coming, receive his kingdom, over which he is to ...s the power of God unto salvation, to every one that believeth: to the Jew first and also to the Greek." So, let the proclamation be what it may that was ma
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith/Chapter 11
    ...g absent, President Rigdon arose and said, that it was the decision of the Presidency, that the Council proceed to examine the charge preferred, because Brother ...mith to rebuke that evil spirit, but it was also his duty as President and First High Priest in the Church of Christ, appointed of God to lead the same in a
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Losing a Lost Tribe: Native Americans, DNA, and the Mormon Church/Chapter 4
    Spencer W. Kimball, "First Presidency Message: Our Paths Have Met Again," ''Ensign'', 5:2-7 (1975)
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Books/Becoming Gods/Chapter 3
    ...responsible for the initial alteration of this text, with the entire First Presidency involved in the next revision. ...lf in his sinful lusts. It was from what he had heard that he believed the presidency had got out of the way, and not from anything that he had seen himself.<ref
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  • Joseph Smith's First Vision/Church Hides Accounts (1984-1989)
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/For my Wife and Children (Letter to my Wife)/Chapter 23
    ...itiated in the 19th century, it was based upon surplus. However, the First Presidency issued the following statement in 1970, which is repeated the current Churc ...'No one is justified in making any other statement than this.'' <ref>First Presidency letter, 19 March 1970. This letter has been quoted in numerous talks by ge
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/For my Wife and Children (Letter to my Wife)/Chapter 25
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  • Messenger and Advocate/1/10
    ..., and pray him to guide my pen to good things and great conclusions.—And first—your quotation from the sublime song of Moses: "Rejoice, O ye nations, wi ...m he had chosen, that is, to Peter, James and John, they forming the first presidency of the church of Christ, after the meridian of time: hence we have a sample
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    Wherefore O. Cowdery and S. Rigdon, Presidents of the first presidency, appointed Thomas Burdick, Warren Parrish and Silvester Smith, Clerks, and ...ent S. Rigdon returned thanks, after which the assembly was blessed by the Presidency, with uplifted hands, & dismissed.
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    ...queries, and that you may know where I am, I say to you, that I answer the first four queries all in the affirmation, and in reference to the last two, I sa Now, so sure as that I have answered the first four questions correctly, so sure, we find the ''whole'' Gospel in the writ
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    ...dah and the captivity of Israel to return, and I will build them as at the first. I will cleanse them from all their iniquities whereby they have sinned aga ...on casting the eye over the above quotations from the sacred writings. And first, the Babylonish captivity affected only the two tribes of Judah and Benjami
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    ...nd before his ancients gloriously. The prophet in the 32d chapter from the first to the 9th verse inclusive, speaks of the blessings of a kingdom that have ...s father David agreeably to the prediction of the angel before he made his first advent into the world.
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  • Book of Mormon/Lamanites/Relationship to Amerindians/Statements/20th century
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    We pray for the temple presidency, for the matron and her assistants, and for all who will serve here in any
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  • Question: Did President Boyd K. Packer, in a talk given in the Forest Bend Ward in Salt Lake City on 12 October 2008, say that a catastrophic event was looming in the immediate future?
    The following First Presidency letter explains the Church’s position on these types of e-mails. The lett
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  • Question: Did Boyd K. Packer say that today's youth "generals" during the pre-mortal "war in heaven"?
    The statement, on occasion, has been attributed to others of the First Presidency and the Twelve. None of the Brethren made that statement.
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  • Question: In the spirit world after this life, will those who lived in President Hinckley's time will be bowed to?
    ...Deseret News'' on [https://www.thechurchnews.com/archives/2008-03-08/first-presidency-releases-statement-77588 8 March 2008].
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  • The Evening and The Morning Star/1/8
    ...as Teraphim, or Urim and Thummim) and while it unfolds the history of the first inhabitants that settled this continent, it, at the same time, brings a one ...hat they, if faithful, whether in life or in death, will come forth in the first resurrection, and always be with the Lord. O that the world would learn wis
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  • The Evening and The Morning Star/1/10
    ...st it.-Adam was the first member of the church of Christ on earth, and the first high priest after the order of the Son of God. In order to show the rise of the church in the first days, we take an extract from the words of Enoch:
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  • Source:Neil L. Anderson:Nov 2012: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 talk
    ...nderson (Nov 2012): "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
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  • Times and Seasons/4/21
    ...ame things of people in the nineteenth century that he did of these of the first. When he organized his church, he made laws for the government of it, and w ...urely not upon the authority of the Bible.-We find further instructions in first Peter, V: 14; 'Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the ch
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  • Mormonism and Church discipline/Scholars/D. Michael Quinn
    ...mind," and compared the Board of Trustees of BYU (which include the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve apostles) to Communist leaders under Stalin.<ref>" ...him and possibly impose Church discipline to Saul's decision to stone the first Christian martyr, St. Stephen.<ref>D. Michael Quinn, Letter to Paul A. Hank
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  • Question: What is the Mormon position on abortion?
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  • Mormonism and gender issues/Same-sex attraction
    ...e of “fornication, adultery, and homosexual and lesbian behavior,” the Presidency added: “Individuals and their families desiring help with these matters s
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  • Mormonism and gender issues/Same-sex attraction/Boyd K. Packer October 2010 conference talk
    ...even a few members of the Church will reject the united voice of the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve on the sinful nature of homosexual acts, as well a ...good or evil, not that we can avoid ever being enticed by the evil in the first place. The emphasis of the church has always been on controlling behavior
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  • Times and Seasons/6/1
    ...d the Son of God, because he received not of the fulness [fullness] at the first. And I John bare record, and lo, the heavens were opened and the Holy Ghost ...ough me, are partakers of the glory of the same, and are the church of the first born. Ye were also in the beginning with the Father: that which is Spirit,
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  • Times and Seasons/6/2
    ...s of the Lord of Sabbaoth, which is, by interpretation, the Creator of the first day; the beginning and the end. ...convened in the translating room in Kirtland on the third of June, and the first case presented was that of Doctor P. Hurlbut, who was accused of unchristia
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  • Times and Seasons/6/3
    First, as respects getting the Book of Commandments bound, we think that it is no ...tudes are embracing it. I Sidney, who writes this letter, in behalf of the presidency, had the privilege of seeing my aged mother baptised [baptized] into the fa
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  • Times and Seasons/6/5
    ...eaty presented an opportunity for the brethren in Zion, to confer with the presidency in Kirtland concerning their situation, which they improved by dispatching ...on as possible-one half, say, by the first of January next, and all by the first day of April next. To advise and try all means in their power, to stop any
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  • Times and Seasons/6/6
    tongue, or people should proclaim war against them, they should first lift a standard of peace unto that people, nation, or tongue, and if that p ...il seventy times seven; and if he trespass against thee and repent not the first time, nevertheless thou shalt forgive him; and if he trespass against thee
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  • Times and Seasons/6/7
    ...nting office, which is to be thirty by thirty eight feet on the ground the first story to be occupied for the school of ...The probability is, that the Star will be forwarded to subscribers by the first of December. Oliver has written to you for the names and residence of the s
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  • Times and Seasons/6/9
    ...es, and Lewis Franklin, who have not ceased to pursue the saints, from the first to the last, with feelings of the most hostile kind. These unexpected ...s perfectly honest and upright and seeks with all his heart to magnify his presidency in the Church of Christ, but fails in many instances, in consequence of a w
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  • Times and Seasons/6/10
    |L11=SUNDAY JUNE FIRST IN NEW YORK. ...rtain quantity of public arms can be distributed in each county; those who first apply will be most likely to receive them. The less, therefore, that is sai
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  • Times and Seasons/6/11
    ...ch the number of officers present was called for, when it appeared, of the presidency, Elder W. Woodruff, one of the Quorum of the Twelve, Counsellors [Counselor Elder E. F. Sheets remarked that the Bradford conference at his first visit rather alarmed him, but he thought he could now state that it was in
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  • Times and Seasons/6/12
    ...by Elder Rigdon, and my brother, Hyrum Smith-We then proceeded to take the first proof sheet of the "Star," edited by Elder Oliver Cowdery. ...d the conference in a most encouraging and prosperous condition, under the presidency of our beloved brother Peter McCue, and our prayer is that he may be long p
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  • Times and Seasons/6/13
    ...and thirty four, with a conference, which they held in Clay county, on the first day of January, at which Bishop Partridge presided. After transacting much to the presidency and church in Kirtland and ask their advice, &c.
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  • Times and Seasons/6/14
    On the 22nd, the presidency of the High Priesthood wrote from Kirtland to the brethren in Christ Jesus, Clerk of the Presidency of the church.
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  • Times and Seasons/6/15
    ...ast lots by numbers, and thereby ascertain who, of the twelve, shall speak first, commencing with number one; and so in succession to number twelve. ...ion shall be altered accordingly: but if no additional light is given, the first decision shall stand, the majority of the council having power to determine
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  • Times and Seasons/6/16
    |L3=FIRST MEETING IN THE TEMPLE. Minutes of the first General Conference, which was ever held by the Church of Jesus Christ of La
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  • Times and Seasons/6/17
    ...ge, by power with a stretched out arm; and as your fathers were led at the first even so shall the redemption of Zion be: therefore, let not your hearts fai 'We have received the first number of the Mormon 'Morning and Evening Star' [the Evening and Morning St
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  • Times and Seasons/6/18
    The Presidency wrote Elder Orson Hyde, who yet remained in the State of New York, as follo ...been driven by force of arms from Jackson county, in this state, since the first of November last, being compelled to leave their highly cultivated fields,
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  • Times and Seasons/6/21
    ...of the public lands in said county of Jackson, as they existed before the first disturbance between the people of Jackson and the Mormons, and for such as It may be thought, at first view, that the mob committee made a fair proposition to the saints, in offe
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  • Times and Seasons/6/22
    ...e would like to see him. I arose and replied, "I am the man." This was the first time that I had been discovered or made known to my enemies since I left Ki I speak not concerning those who are appointed to lead my people, who are the first elders of my church, for they are not all under this condemnation; but I sp
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  • Times and Seasons/6/23
    ...ense, but retained his membership. Council adjourned on the evening of the first of August, but previous to adjourning the council gave the following letter ...ble spread at eight o'clock, at half past eight, the children to breakfast first, when done to retire on deck, or to their respective State Rooms, and no ch
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  • Times and Seasons/5/1
    ...then nations be redeemed, and they that knew no law shall have part in the first resurrection; and it shall be tolerable for them; and satan shall be bound ...nger Wm. Inlow, a very intelligent and credible youth of fourteen, says he first heard a few scattering peaces fall, and looking up, saw the air darkened wi
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  • Times and Seasons/4/12
    ...hat district of country until November, 1821, when he was requested by the First Baptist Church of the city of Pittsburgh, to take the pastorial [pastoral] ...s. There was present on that occasion over 500 people: 350 sat down at the first table. After supper, Elder Adams delivered a very appropriate and eloquent
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  • Times and Seasons/4/22
    ...ht of which men boast, has dazzled their eyes, so that they cannot see the first rudiments of the gospel of Christ. O, that the people of this enlightened a [the first] century, without the public assemblies, in places appointed and prepared f
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  • Times and Seasons/5/2
    ...family, according to his circumstances, and as is appointed to him by the presidency and the bishop of the church, according to the laws and commandments, which ...hieved our liberties in the war of the revolution. From him I received the first impression of the rights of man. By him I was taught, before I understood t
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  • Times and Seasons/5/4
    ...with my servants Joseph Smith, jr. and Sidney Rigdon. Behold these are the first ordinances which you shall receive; and the residue shall be made knowh [kn The Inquisition is re-established at Ancona, and its first proceeding is against the Jews.-Ancona is the third city in the Pope's domi
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  • Question: Do Mormon teachings against homosexual acts lead to bullying of gay youth or unchristian treatment of members or non-members with same-sex attraction?
    ...up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. In discussing this issue, Elder Dallin H. Oaks quoted the First Presidency:
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  • Question: What have Mormon leaders taught about the distinction between desires, feelings, or inclinations, and sexual acts?
    ...ings have not accurately reflected the long-standing teaching of the First Presidency and Twelve Apostles on this matter=== ...ings have not accurately reflected the long-standing teaching of the First Presidency and Twelve Apostles on this matter. Recent teaching of this doctrine is no
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Online documents/For my Wife and Children (Letter to my Wife)/Chapter 14
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  • Question: Are Mormon family members taught to reject their LGBT children, thereby forcing many of them to become homeless?
    ...hodology, the survey does yield some interesting results. When the survey first appeared in the media, emphasis was placed on differences between national ...mily members. However, two factors point away from this possibility. The first is that Utah youths report greater than average feelings of animosity betwe
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  • Question: Do Mormons believe that same-sex attraction is "inborn" or "genetic"?
    "The First Presidency's letters condemning homosexuality are, by their explicit terms, directed a
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  • Question: Is there an "epidemic" of suicide among gay Mormons?
    ...t step to dealing with confusing feelings, and it is imperative that these first steps be met with compassion. Above all, keep your lines of communication *1991 Letter from the First Presidency: "We encourage Church leaders and members to reach out with love and unders
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  • Times and Seasons/5/5
    The first Sabbath after our arrival in Jackson county, brother W. W. Phelps preached ...d day of August, I assisted the Colesville branch of the church to lay the first log, for a house, as a foundation for Zion in Kaw township, twelve miles we
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  • Times and Seasons/5/8
    ...scertain it by revelation from the Lord under the hands of the above named presidency. ...t presidency of the church; and inasmuch as he is found guilty before this presidency, by testimony that cannot be in peached [impeached], he shall be condemned
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  • Question: Was the Mormon priesthood ban simply a policy or was it doctrine?
    ...ere is no known written revelation instituting the ban. In 1949, the First Presidency, led by President George Albert Smith, indicated that the priesthood ban ha &mdash;First Presidency statement, August 17, 1949
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  • Church doctrine/Official or core doctrine/Church statement
    ...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
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  • Mormonism and Wikipedia/First Vision/Interpretations and responses to the vision
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  • Mormonism and racial issues/Blacks and the priesthood/Statements
    ===First Presidency statement (President George Albert Smith)=== ...wn, the mortality is a privilege that is given to those who maintain their first estate; and that the worth of the privilege is so great that spirits are wi
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  • Answers to Questions All Mormons Should Ask Themselves/Questions 29-58
    ...mn Joseph Smith for using Elijah and Elias as separate people, they should first resolve similar issues elsewhere in the Bible and in Christian thought. *It is important to first distinguish the "Garden of Eden" (the paradisiacal location where Adam and
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  • Facts Mormons Won't Tell You When They Call at Your Door
    ...im: "MORMONS WON'T TELL YOU that there are many accounts of Joseph Smith's first vision besides the one they present to you, and all are different" ...h that we are spirit children of our Heavenly Father. This is part of the first lesson taught by missionaries to people unfamiliar with our doctrine. It i
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  • Tithing
    ...ome. No one is justified in making any other statement than this” (First Presidency letter, Mar. 19, 1970). ..., Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first” (1 Kgs. 17:13; emphasis added).
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  • Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints/Succession in the Presidency of the Church/CriticalSources
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  • Book of Mormon/Hill Cumorah/Quotes
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  • Question: Do Mormons oppose the right for same-sex couples to form families?
    ...nd Seasons (vol. 3, no. 15, p. 808) that he and other members of the First Presidency were “friends of equal rights and privileges to all men.” Hugh B. Brown of the First Presidency said in October 1963 General Conference:
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  • Question: Does consecration of everything that one has to the Church include political offices?
    ...ay Saints..." Did you take that oath? Would you consider the office of the presidency of the U.S. to be a "blessing" with which the Lord had blessed you? <ref>{{
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  • Website reviews/Exmormon Foundation/Richard Packham's media questions for Mitt Romney
    ...ahead to the possibility of presenting himself as a candidate for the U.S. presidency in 2008, is meeting privately with Christian leaders to allay their concern |link=Joseph Smith's First Vision/Were all the churches of the day claimed to be "an abomination"
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/25 items that would allegedly "make the Church true"
    {{Heading2|1. Joseph would have told the same version of the First Vision throughout his life. He would have gotten the details correct surrou ...of critics than in the texts themselves. {{Detail|First_Vision/Accounts|l1=First Vision: accounts}}
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Polygamy
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Conflicts with Science
    ...blical traditions were believed as literal events....Adam and Eve were the first humans" ...on Noah and the Flood. [The Ensign articles are all approved by the First Presidency and almost considered scripture.]<br>....<br>
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Translation of the Book of Mormon/Source quotes without commentary
    ...an> But I believed in both the Seer and the “Seer stone,” and what the First Elder announced as revelation from God, I accepted as such, and committed t ...e to prove that the original actually existed. But all we have is his 1906 first printing, which is silent about why no one had ever heard of the document u
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Blacks and the Priesthood
    ...d the current prophet would have to explain the Church's practices for the first 150 years of its existence" ...ten printer's copy, which was given to the printer to set the type for the first printing. It too, agrees with the 1830 Edition. It reads "white".
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Could Joseph Smith have written the Book of Mormon/Source quotes without commentary
    ...out fear upon all that can be said against it. (B. H. Roberts to the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve, March 1923. (See ''Studies of the Book of Mor The fact of it is first established by the testimony of the mother who bore him, Lucy Smith. Speaki
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  • Mormonism and culture/Response to "Why People Leave the LDS Church" (2008)/Historical and doctrinal issues
    *What the history/facts tell us: First vision has multiple, and varied accounts (Pres. Hinckley) ...personage, though both may be present by implication (see [[Joseph Smith's First Vision/Accounts/1832/Only one Personage appears|here]]). The remainder of t
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  • Elder's Journal/1/3
    ...mstances, as the settlement here is but about eighteen months old, and the first settlers had been driven from their homes and all their property destroyed, Now we say to the Presidency of the church in Zion, we do not expect to counsel you, nor anyone there. L
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  • Elder's Journal/1/4
    ...blished upon the earth. 1 Cor. 12.28. And God hath set some in the church; first, apostles, secondarily, prophets, thirdly teachers; after that miracles; th ...hands on them, they sent them away." We have also a saying of Paul in his first epistle to Timothy, which shows how Timothy was set apart to his calling, v
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  • Criticism of Mormonism/Websites/MormonThink/Tithing/Source quotes without commentary
    ...God wants us to give to the Church is found in 1 Corinthians 16:2, "On the first day of the week [Sunday] each of you should set aside whatever he can affor #March 19, 1970, the First Presidency letter
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  • Primary sources/David Whitmer/An Address to All Believers in Christ
    <center>PART FIRST. Part first of this pamphlet is a brief address to those who have not read the Book of
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  • The Church's position on abuse
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  • Rebutting Top Ten Lies by Current LDS Apostles
    ...ake conference. Rather, Thursday is the weekly temple meeting of the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles when ''approvals'' are given. ...ted this direction to mean that a baptismal invite must be extended in the first lesson, and this misinterpretation eventually made its way into training do
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