A synopsis of President B Youngs remarks Before the 18 ward Jan 11^th 1857
the following is not recorded or reported in any other place

It is wright that we should meet together often to pray, sing preach
teach & recieve instruction in order to assist us to live our religion, but
none of thes things or any of the ordinances of the gospel which we admin-
ister to the children of men or to each other does not benefit the Lord
Our worshiping the Lord is of no particular benefit to our Father in Heaven
but it is all entirely for our own benefit & in this light we should
view it. their is a doctrin taught from the stand & freequently taught
in Public that we should follow Brother Joseph or Brother Brigham
or any man who leads & do as they say & foobey them & that is all that is
required but this is a fals doctrin in one sense. for I will say that
no man should trust to the testimony of another but he should go to God
& get the testimony for himself this evry man & woman should do
I might have heard Joseph Smith preache & testify of the truth of the Book
of mormon & of this work untill he had been as old as Methuselah & in
the end I should have snaped my fingers at him & said to him you
are a foolish old man & turned upon my heels & walked off if I
had not have had some other testimony besides his but I went to
the Lord & the Lord revealed to me that it was true & that it was his word
& I received it upon that principle, & I have lived upon that
principle from that day untill now & it is the right privilege & Duty
of evry man & woman to get the revelation of Jesus Christ for
themselves & evry person should get the spirit of God & live by
it & if all would do this there would not be a man or woman unhappy
in this territory & the flood of complaint which now salutes my
ears of Husbands & wives complaining of each other would be done
away. One man comes & sayes my family will not be subject to
me another woman says my husband abuses me & I want a bill [of divorce ]
to get away from him and a thousand complaints come poreing in
upon me none of which I should hear if the people lived by the
spirit of God you should all obtain the spirit of God & overcome
your passions when you get angry you should put a peace of
Indiaruber in your mouth & bite it untill you could get perfect
controll over your passions do not speak while you are angry for
you will say sumthing that you will be sorry for but if you will keep
your thoughts to yourself when you are angry they will not become
the property of another. Any person who is acquainted with me knows
that I have controll over myself I do not speak in anger to my
wives, children, or the people. I make all my Passions be in subjection
to the priesthood & the spirit of God. people cannot fulfill their
calling & do their duty unless they are filled with the Holy Ghost
I do not know that there is a female in Israel who is worthy of the
appellation of a Mother in Israel for any woman to raise up children
unto the Lord as they should do they should be filled with the Holy Ghost
when they concieve seed & continue filled with the Holy Ghost
untill the child is born & weaned then the Mother should have the Holy
Ghost to teach the child untill He is Grown up so the Father should
be filled with the Holy Ghost when he begetts a child & he also should
be filled with the Holy Ghost in order to train up that child right then
it will be Holy unto the Lord & will have power with God. these are
true principles. the Saints should bring all there passions in subjections
to the Law of God I am learning evry day I live, I see some that
will bear a testimony that they know that Joseph was a prophet

FIGURES A synopsis of President B Youngs remarks Before the 18 ward Jan 11th 1857 the following is not recorded or reported in any other place

It isright that we should meet together often to pray sing preach teach & recieve instruction in order to assist us to live our religion, but none of thes things or any of the ordinances of the gospel which we administer to the children of men or to each other does not benefit the Lord Our worshiping the Lord is of no particular benefit to our Father in Heaven but it is all entirely for our own benefit & in this light we should view it. their is a doctrin taught from the stand & freequently taught in Public that we should follow Brother Joseph or Brother Brigham or any man who leads & do as they say & obey them & that is all that is required but this is a fals doctrin in one sense. for I will say that no man should trust to the testimony of another but he should go to God & get the testimony for himself this evry man & woman should do I might have heard Joseph Smith preache & testify of the truth of the Book of mormon & of this work untill he had been as old as Methuselah & in the end I should have snaped my fingers at him & said to him you are a foolish old man & turned upon my heels & walked off if I had not have had some other testimony besides his but I went to the Lord & the Lord revealed to me that it was true & that it was his word & I received it upon that principle, & I have lived upon that principle from that day untill now & it is the right privilege & Duty of evry man & woman to get the revelation of Jesus Christ for themselves & evry person should get the spirit of God & live by it & if all would do this there would not be a man or woman unhappy in this territory & the flood of complaint which now salutes my ears of Husbands & wives complaining of each other would be done away. One man comes & sayes my family will not be subject to me another woman says my husband abuses me & I want a bill to get away from him and a thousand complaints come poreing in upon me none of which I should hear if the people lived by the spirit of God you should all obtain the spirit of God & overcome your passions when you get angry you should put a peace of Indiaruber in your mouth & bite it untill you could get perfect controll over your passion do not speak while you are angry for you will say sumthing that you will be sorry for but if you will keep your thoughts to yourself when you are angry they will not become the property of another. Any person who is acquainted with me knows that I have controll over myself I do not speak in anger to my wives, children or the people. I make all my Passions be in subjection to the priesthood & the spirit of God. people cannot fulfill their calling & do their duty unless they are filled with the Holy Ghost I do not know that there is a female in Israel who is worthy of the appellation of a Mother in Israel for any woman to raise up children unto the Lord as they should do they should be filled with the Holy Ghost when they concieve seed & continue filled with the Holy Ghost untill the child is born & weaned then the Mother should have the Holy Ghost to teach the child untill He is Grown up so the Father should be filled with the Holy Ghost when he begets a child & he also should be filled with the Holy Ghost in order to train up that child right then it will be Holy unto the Lord & will have power with God. these are true principles. the saints should bring all there passions in subjections to the Law of God I am learning evry day I live, I see some that will bear a testimony that they know that Joseph was a prophet