Apostles, have had experience and light enough
to shun any path pointed out to gratify the
private interest of any man, or set of men,
against the interest of the Church and Kingdom
of God on the earth. I once knew, not
only Twelve men, but twice Twelve leading
men, who undertook to appoint a Prophet and
President to lead the Church, before the death
of the Prophet Joseph Smith, but they aposta-
tized and went to perdition. And it would
be a very dangerous precedent for us to
set, to depart from the order which God has
pointed out; and it will be a precedent
which the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles will
never set from this time till the coming
of the Son of Man.

I was informed that President George Q. Cannon
used the argument, in the deeding of the Gardo House
to President Taylor, as the President of the Church,
that in the case of his death the Deed should
not go to the President of the Twelve Apostles
but to the President whom the Twelve should
appoint; (I certainly have no objections
to this,) saying that in the appointment of
Presidents Brigham Young, and John Taylor,

Apostles, have had experience and light enough to shun any path pointed out to gratify the private interest of any man, or set of men, against the interest of the Church and Kingdom of God on the earth. I once knew, not only Twelve men, but twice Twelve leading men, who undertook to appoint a Prophet and President to lead the Church, before the death of the Prophet Joseph Smith, but they apostatized and went to perdition. And it would be a very dangerous precedent for us to set, to depart from the order which God has pointed out; and it will be a precedent which the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles will never set from this time till the coming of the Son of Man.

I was informed that President George Q. Cannon used the argument, in the deeding of the Gardo House to President Taylor, as the President of the Church, that in the case of his death the Deed should not go to the President of the Twelve Apostles but to the President whom the Twelve should appoint; (I certainly have no objections to this,) saying that in the appointment of Presidents Brigham Young, and John Taylor,