Discourse 1856-12-23
Wilford Woodruff, desired the Bishops and other authorities
to lay their hands upon the brain as far as they can, and
pay especial regard to the remarks of Elder Orson Hyde,
he then appealed to the Missionaries who had partly waked
and desired them to get more of the fire of the Holy Ghost; speaking
of the lessor priesthood, he said show me a man who has magnified
and honored his calling as a Teacher, and I will show you a mighty
man in Israel, there had been such a rush into the quorums of
the Seventy's and High Priests, that they had become as black as
midnight; he rebuked the practise of taking every little
difficulty to the President instead of having them settled by the
Priests Teachers &c and he with the rest of the Twelve intended
to be after every Quorum, until the fire of God should burn so hot,
as to consume all the iniquity that lurks in our midst.
