Occupation: Apostle Birth: September 19, 1811 Death: October 3, 1881
The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being..
Noah and his family were the only loyal and obedient subjects to the legal power: they alone were saved.
If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably gre….
God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is….
On the 1st day of December, 1830, I was confirmed, and in accordance with the word of the Lord I was ordained an Elder under the hands of the Prophet.
It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorized him by new revelation to baptize in his name.
Each succeeding generation of Gods follow the example of the preceding ones: each generation have their wives, who raise up from the fruit of their l….
The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist in any part of the unive….
The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.
Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space..
Convince us of our errors of doctrine, if we have any, by reason, by logical arguments, or by the Word of God, and we will be ever grateful for the i….
Do not suffer any man to baptize or minister unto you, unless God has spoken unto him by the voice of his servants, and authorized him to minister in….
Baptism is just as essential to salvation, as Faith and Repentance. Without being immersed in water no man can enter into the fullness of Celestial g….
The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of.
I discover that some of the Eastern papers represent me as a great blasphemer, because I said, in my lecture on Marriage, at our last Conference, tha….
Jesus appeared unto the ancient Nephites, in the northern part of what we call South America..
This law of monogamy, or the monogamic system, laid the foundation for prostitution and the evils and diseases of the most revolting nature and chara….
If a person trains his mind to walk in the spirit, and brings his whole mind to bear upon its operations, and upon the principles of faith which are ….
An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent pe….
God has told us Latter-day Saints that we shall be condemned if we do not enter into that principle of polygamy; and yet I have heard now and then (I….
I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith.