Discourse 1889-06-02

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Discourse 1889-06-02
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    Before the close of this conference there is a subject upon which I wish to bear my testimony. There were per- haps very few people here yesterday who are in this assembly today, when Brother Thatcher delivered a lecture upon the life of President Brigham Young. He referred to a saying of President Young which I, being a wit- ness of, feel it my duty to allude to. I am the first person unto whom he made the remark, and the only one living in the flesh who was with him and ...
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    the depot in the city of Boston at the time when the two Prophets were mar- tyred. Of course we had no telegraphs and no fast reports as we have today to give communication over the land. Dur- ing that period Brother Young was wait- ing there for a train of cars to go to Peterborough. Whilst sitting there we were overshadowed by a cloud of dark- ness and gloom as great as I ever wit- nessed in my life under almost any cir- cumstances in which we ...
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    that occasion the Prophet Joseph rose up and said to us, "Brethren, I have de- sired to live to see this temple built. I shall never live to see it, but you will. I have sealed upon your heads all the keys of the Kingdom of God. I have sealed upon you every key, power, principle that the God of heaven has revealed to me or sealed upon me. Now, no matter where I may go or what I may do, the Kingdom rests upon you." Now don't you ...
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    revelation, why John Taylor did not have revelation, why Wilford Woodruff does not have revelation, why any other Apostle does not have revelation. I hold in my hand a book of revelations, enough to lead this Church into the celestial kingdom of God. Anybody who will obey that law will have all the revela- tion that he can fulfill on the earth. We are not without revelation. The heavens are full of it, so is the holy Priesthood. I know the destiny of this people; it is revealed by the ...
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    did not believe in any more revelation. This would be a great mistake. For if we had before us every revelation which God ever gave to man; if we had the Book of Enoch; if we had the untrans- lated plates before us in the English language; if we had the records of the Revelator St. John which are sealed up, and all other revelations, and they were piled up here a hundred feet high, the Church and kingdom of God could not grow, in this or any other age ...