Autobiography Volume 3 circa 1865-1866
On the Lorenzo Snow and myself went up
to President Young's Office where we found him Heber C. Kimball
and Orson Hyde. I Wilford Woodruff told President Brigham
Young that we had drawn up a few lines for the Presidents of the
Seventies to sign. I also said to him that I would not ask
my brethren to do what I was not willing to do myself and inasmuch
as I received my Apostleship from yourse hands I now surrender
it unto you and throw myself into your hands and if there is
any other man in Israel that you think will fill my place
better than I do I will freely take it and not complain about
it. Elder Lorenzo Snow said the same thing to President Young
So also did Orson Hyde.
President Young replied, "As for you brother
Woodruff and brother Snow I have never known you when
you more felt the responsibility of your Apostleship or was as well
qualified to magnify your calling as at the present time; but as
for you brother Hyde I will say if you do not magnify your
calling better than you have done I shall object to your standing
where you do if nobody else does for you have not had the spirit
of your calling upon you. You have been trying to build
yourselves up and not the Kingdom of God"
I remarked yes brother Hyde the quorum
of the Twelve feel this and have felt it for a good while. We want
you to take hold and lead as you are our President. We want a
leader and if you will magnify your calling we will be with you
President Young also ^made^ some remarks upon Orson
Pratt's course disaproaving of his philosophy and order of reasoning
