Journal of Discourses, Volume 13

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Volume 12

Volume 14

Journal of Discourses Volume 13

BY PRESIDENT BRIGHAM YOUNG,

HIS TWO COUNSELLORS, AND THE TWELVE APOSTLES.

REPORTED BY D. W. EVANS AND JOHN GRIMSHAW.

AND RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED TO THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS IN ALL THE WORLD.

VOL. XIII

LIVERPOOL:

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY HORACE S. ELDREDGE, 42, ISLINGTON.

LONDON:

LATER-DAY SAINTS' BOOK DEPOT, 20, BISHOP'S GROVE, ISLINGTON.

1871.

Preface

THE Thirteenth Volume of the "Journal" contains discourses upon a great variety of subjects of interest to all Saints, and is well worthy of being carefully preserved and frequently referred to for instruction and encouragement in their endeavors to live by every word that proceedeth from the mouth of God, through His servants who hold the Holy Priesthood.

THE PUBLISHER.

1: RESPONSIBILITY FOR TEACHINGS—THE WORD OF WISDOM-CO-OPERATION, ETC.

Summary: REMARKS BY PRESIDENT BRIGHAM YOUNG, DELIVERED IN THE NEW TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, APRIL 7, 1869. (Reported by David W. Evans.)

2. THE AXE IS LAID TO THE ROOT—EXHORTATION TO FAITHFULNESS

Summary: REMARKS BY ELDER ERASTUS SNOW, DELIVERED IN THE TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, FEBRUARY 28, 1869. (Reported by David W. Evans.)

3. RELIGIOUS CONFLICTION IN THE WORLD—THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST

Summary: DISCOURSE BY ELDER JOHN TAYLOR, DELIVERED IN THE OLD TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, MARCH 14, 1869. (Reported by David W. Evans.)

4. CONTRIBUTIONS FOR EMIGRATING THE SAINTS—WORD OF WISDOM

Summary: REMARKS BY PRESIDENT GEORGE A. SMITH, DELIVERED IN THE NEW TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, APRIL 6,1869. (Reported by David W. Evans.)

5. CO-OPERATION—MERCHANDIZING AND PRODUCTIVE BUSINESSES—DOING THE LORD'S WILL

Summary: REMARKS BY PRESIDENT D. H. WELLS, DELIVERED IN THE NEW TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, APRIL 7, 1869. (Reported by David W. Evans.)

6. GATHERING THE SAINTS—CONTINUOUS FAITHFULNESS—WOMEN AND FASHIONS

Summary: REMARKS BY PRESIDENT BRIGHAM YOUNG, DELIVERED IN THE NEW TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, APRIL 8, 1869. (Reported by David W. Evans.)

7. CELESTIAL MARRIAGE—BISHOPS AND DEACONS SHOULD BE MARRIED—DIVORCE

Summary: REMARKS BY PRESIDENT GEORGE A. SMITH, DELIVERED IN THE NEW TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, OCTOBER 8, 1869. (Reported by John Grimshaw.)

8. THE RIGHT AND AUTHORITY OF THE PRESIDENT BRIGHAM YOUNG

Summary: DISCOURSE BY ELDER GEORGE Q. CANNON, DELIVERED IN THE TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, DECEMBER 5, 1869. (Reported by John Grimshaw.)

9: OBEYING THE GOSPEL—RECREATION—INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT

Summary: DISCOURSE BY PRESIDENT BRIGHAM YOUNG, DELIVERED IN THE NEW TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, JULY 18, 1869. (Reported by David W. Evans.)

10: REVELATIONS AND MANIFESTATIONS OF GOD AND OF WICKED SPIRITS

Summary: DISCOURSE BY ELDER ORSON PRATT, DELIVERED IN THE TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, DECEMBER 19, 1869. (Reported by David W. Evans.)

11. SYNOPSIS OF REMARKS BY PRESIDENT BRIGHAM YOUNG, AT THE FUNERAL OF THE LATE PRESIDENT DANIEL SPENCER

Summary: ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10TH, 1868, AT THE 13TH WARD ASSEMBLY ROOMS, GREAT SALT LAKE CITY.

12: HISTORICAL DISCOURSE BY PRESIDENT GEORGE A. SMITH

Summary: DELIVERED IN THE NEW TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, JUNE 20, 1869. (Reported by David W. Evans.)

13: LATTER-DAY SAINT FAMILIES-PREACHING THE GOSPEL-BUILDING UP THE KINGDOM

Summary: REMARKS BY PRESIDENT BRIGHAM YOUNG, DELIVERED IN THE TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, JANUARY 2, 1870.(Reported by John Grimshaw.)

14: THE ORDER OF ENOCH—SOCIALISTIC EXPERIMENTS-THE SOCIAL PROBLEM

Summary: DISCOURSE BY ELDER GEORGE Q. CANNON, DELIVERED IN THE NEW TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, APRIL 6, 1869. (Reported by David W. Evans.)

15: HISTORICAL ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT GEORGE A. SMITH

Summary: DELIVERED IN THE NEW TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, OCTOBER 8TH AND 9TH, 1868. (Reported by David W. Evans.)

16. THE LATTER-DAY KINGDOM OF GOD—DIVINE AUTHENTICITY OF THE BOOK OF MORMON—EXTERNAL TESTIMONY

Summary: DISCOURSE BY ELDER ORSON PRATT, DELIVERED IN THE TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, APRIL 10, 1870. (Reported by David W. Evans.)

17: THE LORD'S SUPPER—MIRACLES AND MANIFESTATIONS OF THE POWER OF GOD—THE GOSPEL AND THE GIFTS AND BLESSINGS THEREOF

Summary: DISCOURSE BY PRESIDENT BRIGHAM YOUNG, DELIVERED IN THE NEW TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, JULY 11, 1869. (Reported by David W. Evans.)

18: BUILDING UP ZION—TEMPERANCE IN EATING AND DRINKING

Summary: DISCOURSE BY PRESIDENT BRIGHAM YOUNG, Delivered in the Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, November 14, 1869. (Reported by John Grimshaw.)

19: THE HOLY GHOST—LABORING IN FAITH—THE KINGDOM OF GOD—PATRIARCHAL MARRIAGE

Summary: DISCOURSE BY ELDER WILFORD WOODRUFF, DELIVERED IN THE TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, DECEMBER 12, 1869. (Reported by David W. Evans.)

20: THE SOURCE OF INTELLIGENCE, ETC.

Summary: DISCOURSE BY PRESIDENT BRIGHAM YOUNG, DELIVERED IN THE NEW TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, MAY 29, 1870 (Reported by David W. Evans.)

21: THE RIGHT TO LEAD THE CHURCH, ETC.

Summary: REMARKS BY ELDER ORSON HYDE, DELIVERED IN THE NEW TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, OCTOBER 6, 1869.(Reported by John Grimshaw.)

22: CELESTIAL MARRIAGE

Summary: DISCOURSE BY ELDER ORSON PRATT, DELIVERED IN THE NEW TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, OCTOBER 7, 1869. (Reported by David W. Evans.)

23: CELESTIAL MARRIAGE

Summary: DISCOURSE BY ELDER GEORGE Q. CANNON, DELIVERED IN THE NEW TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, OCTOBER 9, 1869.(Reported by David W. Evans.)

24: PREACHING THE GOSPEL—THE PRINCIPLES AND SPIRIT OF THE SAME

Summary: DISCOURSE BY PRESIDENT BRIGHAM YOUNG, DELIVERED IN THE TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, JULY 17, 1870. (Reported by David W. Evans.)

25: HOW TO KNOW THE THINGS OF GOD

Summary: DISCOURSE BY ELDER JOHN TAYLOR, DELIVERED IN THE NEW TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, MAY 6, 1870.(Reported by David W. Evans.)

26: THE SAINTS ARE A STRANGE PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY PRACTISE WHAT THEY PROFESS

Summary: DISCOURSE BY PRESIDENT BRIGHAM YOUNG, DELIVERED IN THE TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, FEB. 20, 1870. (Reported by David W. Evans.)

27: THE POWER OF TRADITION ON THE HUMAN MIND

Summary: DISCOURSE BY PRESIDENT BRIGHAM YOUNG, DELIVERED IN THE NEW TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, SEPT. 25, 1870 (Reported by David W. Evans.)

28: ACTING IN THE NAME OF THE LORD

Summary: REMARKS BY ELDER LORENZO SNOW, DELIVERED IN THE NEW TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, OCT. 9, 1869. (Reported by John Grimshaw.)

29: MEETING IN CONFERENCE

Summary: REMARKS BY PRESIDENT BRIGHAM YOUNG DELIVERED IN THE NEW TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, OCT. 6, 1870. (Reported by David W. Evans.)

30: TEXTS FOR PREACHING UPON AT CONFERENCE—REVELATIONS—DECEITFULNESS OF RICHES—ONE-MAN POWER—SPIRITUALISM

Summary: REMARKS BY PRESIDENT BRIGHAM YOUNG, DELIVERED IN THE TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, OCTOBER 6, 1870. (Reported by David W. Evans.)

31: THE GOSPEL—THE ONE-MAN POWER

Summary: DISCOURSE BY PRESIDENT BRIGHAM YOUNG, DELIVERED IN THE TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, JULY 24, 1870 (Reported by David W. Evans.)

32: THE WORD OF WISDOM—SPIRITUALISM

Summary: DISCOURSE BY PRESIDENT BRIGHAM YOUNG, DELIVERED IN THE NEW TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, OCT. 30, 1870 (Reported by David W. Evans.)

33: THE GOSPEL

Summary: DISCOURSE BY ELDER LORENZO SNOW, DELIVERED IN THE TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, SUNDAY, JAN. 23, 1870. (Reported by John Grimshaw.)

34: WRITTEN SERMONS AND EXTEMPORE PREACHING—THE PRIESTHOOD—OPPOSITION TO IT

Summary: REMARKS BY PRESIDENT GEORGE A. SMITH, DELIVERED IN THE TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, NOV. 20, 1870. (Reported by David W. Evans.)

35: GATHERING THE POOR—RELIGION A SCIENCE

Summary: DISCOURSE BY PRESIDENT BRIGHAM YOUNG, DELIVERED IN THE TABERNACLE, OGDEN CITY, NOV. 13, 1870 (Reported by David W. Evans.)

36: KEEPING THE COMMANDMENTS

Summary: DISCOURSE BY PRESIDENT BRIGHAM YOUNG, DELIVERED IN THE TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 1870. (Reported by David W. Evans.)

37: REMARKS BY WILFORD WOODRUFF, ON THE DEATH OF ELDER EZRA T. BENSON

Summary: DELIVERED IN THE NEW TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, SEPT. 5, 1869. (Reported by David W. Evans.)

38: THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST

Summary: DISCOURSE BY PRESIDENT BRIGHAM YOUNG, DELIVERED IN THE TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 1870.(Reported by David W. Evans.)

39: BEARING FALSE WITNESS

Summary: REMARKS BY PRESIDENT GEORGE A. SMITH, DELIVERED IN THE TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 1870. (Reported by David W. Evans.)

40: TRUTH AND ERROR

Summary: REMARKS BY PRESIDENT BRIGHAM YOUNG, DELIVERED IN THE TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, SUNDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 24, 1870. (Reported by David W. Evans.)

41: THE GOSPEL AND THE THINGS OF THE WORLD—CONSISTENCY—WORKS AS WELL AS FAITH—THE WORD OF WISDOM

Summary: DISCOURSE BY ELDER JOSEPH F. SMITH, DELIVERED IN THE TABERNACLE, OGDEN CITY, NOV. 12, 1870. (Reported by David W. Evans.)

42: PROPER CONDUCT IN MEETING

Summary: REMARKS BY PRESIDENT BRIGHAM YOUNG, DELIVERED IN THE NEW TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, MAY 5, 1870. (Reported by David W. Evans.)

43: ORGANIZATION OF THE CHURCH—DIFFERENT GLORIES—GOD'S WORK

Summary: REMARKS BY PRESIDENT GEORGE A. SMITH, DELIVERED IN THE NEW TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, MAY 5, 1870.(Reported by David W. Evans.)

44: THE GOSPEL—BUILDING UP THE KINGDOM

Summary: REMARKS BY PRESIDENT D. H. WELLS, DELIVERED IN THE NEW TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, MAY 5, 1870.(Reported by David W. Evans.)

45: THE LATTER-DAY WORK—OBEYING THE COMMANDMENTS

Summary: DISCOURSE BY ELDER ORSON PRATT, DELIVERED IN THE NEW TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, MAY 5, 1870.(Reported by David W. Evans.)

46: PUNCTUAL PAYMENT OF DEBTS

Summary: DISCOURSE BY PRESIDENT ORSON HYDE, DELIVERED IN THE NEW TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, MAY 5, 1870.(Reported by David W. Evans.)

47: OUR TRADITIONS—RECEIVING COUNSEL

Summary: DISCOURSE BY ELDER GEORGE Q. CANNON, DELIVERED IN THE TABERNACLE, OGDEN CITY, NOV. 13, 1870.(Reported by David W. Evans.)