the mouth of his Prophet who leads his people and it has ever
been a key with me that when The Prophet who leads presents
a doctrin or principle or says thus saith the Lord I make it a point
to received it even if it comes in contack with my tradition
or views being well satisfied that the Lord would reveal the truth
unto his Prophet whom he has called to lead his Church before he
would unto me, and the word of the Lord through the prophet is
the End of the Law unto me. O Hyde & Joseph Young both backed
me up. Joseph Young said "I do not believe in the doctrin of
worshiping the atrtributes and not the Auther I once loved a woman
she says to me you shall have my respect & kind regards &
she told me to go in peace I told her it was not her good
will that I wanted alone I wanted her. So with my God if
he was to say to me Joseph here take my attributes & go I
would say No Father it is not your attributes alone that I
want but I want you. When I read O Pratts views in the
Seer I could not swallow it. Joseph the Prophet said when
you see your Father you will see him Just as he was in this life
ownly he will be full of Strength Glory Immortality & Eternal
life President Brigham Young said now here is the Twelve
I wish to extend there Influence as Far as I can but I cannot
do it while I ^they^ teach Fals doctrin one of the causes of the declartion
in England (as I understand the people are clear down) is what
Orson Pratt Preached in the seer. There is not a man in the
Church that can preach better than Orson Pratt upon any
subject which he understands it is music to hear him but the
trouble is he will preach upon things he does not know any
thing about and tehen he will preach fals doctrin & so will
Elder Hyde. He preaches upon the resurrection & teaches
things which are not true. I will tell you the God
which you and I worship, it is a Being that was on an Earth
like this He has been cloathed in Mortality the same as
we have been and he has had Devils to fight the same as we have had
but I do not expect they were the same Devils that we have. That God
says I am your God and there is none Els let us worship him and none
Els He is the God that we have. No matter what Gods Enoch saw when
the heavens were opened unto him if the God he saw had been exalted
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the mouth of his Prophet who leads his people and it has ever
been a key with me that when The Prophet who leads presents
a doctrin or principle or says thus saith the Lord I make it a point
to receive it even if it comes in contack with my tradition
or views being well satisfied that the Lord would reveal the truth
unto his Prophet whom he has called to lead his Church before he
would unto me, and the word of the Lord through the prophet is
the End of the Law unto me. O Hyde & Joseph Young both backed
me up. Joseph Young said "I do not believe in the doctrin of
worshiping the attributes and not the Auther I once loved a woman
she says to me you shall have my respect & kind regards &
she told me to go in peace I told her it was not her good
will that I wanted alone I wanted her. So with my God if
he was to say to me Joseph here take my attributes & go I
would say No Father it is not your attributes alone that I
want but I want you. When I read O Pratts views in the
seer I could not swallow it. Joseph the Prophet said when
you see your Father you will see him Just as he was in this life
ownly he will be full of Strength Glory Immortality & Eternal
life President Brigham Young said now here is the Twelve
I wish to extend there Influence as Far as I can but I cannot
do it while they teach Fals doctrin One of the causes of the declartion
in England (as I understand the people are clear down) is what
Orson Pratt Preached in the seer. There is not a man in the
Church that can preach better than Orson Pratt upon any
subject which he understands it is music to hear him but the
trouble is he will preach upon things he does not know any
thing about and then he will preach fals doctrin & so will
Elder Hyde, He preaches upon the resurrection & teaches
things which are not true. I will tell you the God
which you and I worship, it is a Being that was on an Earth
like this He has been cloathed in Mortality the same as
we have been and he has had Devils to fight the same as we have had
but I do not expect they were the same Devils that we have. That God
says I am your God and there is none Els let us worship him and none
Els. He is the God that we have. No matter what Gods Enoch saw when
the heavens were opened unto him if the God he saw had been exalted
"Journal (January 1, 1860 – October 22, 1865)," January 27, 1860, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed December 22, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/1jXR