THE DESERET WEEKLY. Truth and Liberty. No. 18. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, APRIL 21, 1894. VOL. XLVIII. THE LAW OF ADOPTION. Discourses delivered at the General Conference of the Church, in the Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, Sunday morning, April 8, 1894, by PRESIDENTS WILFORD WOODRUFF and GEORGE Q. CANNON -[REPORTED BY ARTHUR WINTER.]- PRESIDENT WILFORD WOODRUFF. I feel thankful for the privilege of meeting with so many of the Latter-day Saints this morning. In order to pre- sent my position before ...

keys of the kingdom, and of the dispensation of the fulness of times. "[Doctrine and Covenants 128:20] And again, the voice of God in the chamber of old father Whitmer, in Fayette, Seneca county, and at sundry times, and in divers places through the travels and tribulations of this Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. And the voice of Michael, the arch- angel; the voice of Gabriel, and of Raphael ...

blood of any of the human family; and when the books are opened in the day of judgment these things will be proven to heaven and earth. Perhaps I had not ought to enter into these things, but it came to me. Men are in danger some- times in being adopted to others, until they know who they are and what they will be. Now, what are the feelings of Israel? They have felt that they wanted to be adopted to somebody. President Young was not satisfied in his mind with regard to the extent of this ...

that we had power to redeem our dead, one of the first things I thought was, "I have a mother in the spirit world." My father was in the flesh. I baptized and ordained him and brought him up to Zion, where he is buried. But I never saw my mother to know her. She died when I was an infant. I had power to seal my mother to my father. Was not that a satisfaction? It was to me. I have gone to work with the assistance of ...