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Day in the Life

May 6, 1855

Journal Entry

May 06, 1855 ~ Sunday

6th Sunday John Young preached in the Tabernacle in the fore-
noon. George Q Cannon preached in the afternoon concerning His
mission to the Islands the customs of the Natives the special manifesta-
tions of the work of God among them certain acts, customs, & deeds
which if men practiced they were to suffer death. He was
followed By President Young in an interesting discourse upon
the subject of our building up the Kingdom of God, Having faith,
trusting in God under all circumstances in life his discourse
was reported.

I attended the Prayer circle whare I herd
some interesting teaching from President Young in social
conversation which was not reported. the following is a key
to some of the principles He advanced. He refered to the preach-
ing of Orson Pratt & Orson Hyde the sabbath before upon the subj-
ect of the resurrection. He said the Identical particles of matter
in which we had honored our spirits with ie our tabernacles in
which we had suffered, travelled, laboured, & built up the kingdom
of God that would be the Identical body & no other that would be
raised from the grave to immortality & Eternal life. Adam & Eve
had lived upon another Earth were immortal when they came here
Adam assisted in forming this Earth & agreed to fall when He
came Here & He fell that man might be & the opposite principle
to good the devel, the serpent, the Evil was plased upon the Earth that
man might know the good from the Evil for without an Experi[en]ce
in these things man could not know the one from the other as soon
as the devil was on Earth He sowed the seeds of Death in evry thing
so as soon as they began to eat of the fruit of the Earth they received
into their system the seeds of mortality & of Death so their children
wer mortal & subject to death sorrow pain & wo then when they
partook of life, Joy, ease, & Happiness they would know how to prize it
Father Adam would never scease his labours to redeem his posterity
& exhalt them to all the glory they were capable of receiving He did
not doubt but that Father Adam knew in the beginning how many
of his posterity would receive a Celestial glory & who they were &
also a Terrestrial & a Telestial yet man had his agency to act
chuse & refuse good or evil as seemed him good & he would be rew-
arded according to his works. O. Pratt asks will Adam or any God con-
tinue to make worlds people them taste of Death to redeem them

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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 26 Aug 1877
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Apostle, Family
1966 mentions
Apostle
Young, John (Jr.)
22 May 1791 - 27 Apr 1870
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Hyde, Orson
8 Jan 1805 - 28 Nov 1878
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Apostle
Pratt, Orson
19 Sep 1811 - 3 Oct 1881
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Apostle

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upon the subj- ect of the resurrection. He said the Identical particles of matter in which we had honored our spirits with ie our tabernacles in which we had suffered, travelled, laboured, & built up the kingdom of God that would be the Identical body & no other that would be raised from the grave to immortality & Eternal life.
~ Brigham Young
so as soon as they began to eat of the fruit of the Earth they received into their system the seeds of mortality & of Death so their children wer mortal & subject to death sorrow pain & wo then when they partook of life, Joy, ease, & Happiness they would know how to prize it
~ Brigham Young

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May 6, 1855