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Collection Name Journal of Discourses
Collection Description Collection of discourses.
Collection Number Journal of Discourses
Collection Box Volume 19
Collection Page 223-229
Source Link Brigham Young University
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Jedediah Morgan Grant
25 Feb 1816 - 1 Dec 1856
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Heber Chase Kimball
14 Jun 1801 - 22 Jun 1868
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John Daniel Thompson McAllister
19 Feb 1827 - 21 Jan 1910
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George Albert Smith
26 Jun 1817 - 1 Sep 1875
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Hyrum Smith
9 Feb 1800 - 27 Jun 1844
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Joseph Smith (Jr.)
23 Dec 1805 - 27 Jun 1844
John Wesley
17 Jun 1703 - 2 Feb 1791
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Brigham Young
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
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I believe that holy men of old wrote and spoke as they were moved upon by the Holy Ghost, and that they meant what they said and said what they meant, and that the Apostle Paul spoke truly when he said, "that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpre- tation."
~ Wilford Woodruff
Through this boy, inexperienced and unlearned as he was, the Lord organized this Church on the 6th day of April, 18[3]0, with only six members; and it can be said of him as of no other man in Christendom, that he was the instrument in the hands of God of presenting to the world a system of religion, a Church organization complete with all the keys and powers of the Holy Priest- hood, and that through him has been imparted to the religious world more light and knowledge than all the professors of religion combined, with all their boasted intelligence and learning.
~ Wilford Woodruff
One of the peculiar features in the faith of the Latter-day Saints is that we be- lieve there is but one Gospel, that there never has been nor never will be any other, and that that Gospel never changes from one generation to ano- ther, and that it consists of the sim- ple principles taught by the Savior and contained in the New Testament, which principles never deviate one from another. The first was faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; the se- cond was baptism in water by im- mersion for the remission of sins, and then the laying on of hands for the reception of the Holy Ghost; and this was the kind of doctrine taught by Christ and his Apostles, and this was the doctrine that Jo- seph Smith preached. In doing so he stood alone in the world, and he had to meet the traditions of eighteen hundred years, traditions which had been handed down from generation to generation, which were entirely opposed to the doctrine which the Lord had revealed to him, and which he was commanded to preach.
~ Wilford Woodruff

Whenever God had a Church upon the earth, these gifts were enjoyed by the peo- ple. The sick were healed of their sickness, the lame were made to walk, the blind to see, the dumb to speak, etc., through the administrations of those among them who held the Priesthood
~ Wilford Woodruff
And instead of the work of the latter-day stopping, or its progress being retarded in consequence of the death of our beloved President, it will move forward with accelerated speed, until Zion arises in beauty, and power, and dominion, in fulfil- ment of the inspired words of Pro- phets and Seers who have spoken, and who, while wrapt in heavenly vision, saw our day.
~ Wilford Woodruff
The Gospel must be thoroughly and faithfully preached to every nation under heaven, and the Lord holds us responsible, for verily the trust has been imposed upon us, and it behooves us to see to it.
~ Wilford Woodruff
and it is our duty to rise up and build these Temples. I look upon this portion of our min- istry as a mission of as much import- ance as preaching to the living; the dead will hear the voice of the ser- vants of God in the spirit-world, and they cannot come forth in the morning of the resurrection, unless certain ordinances are performed, for and in their behalf, in Temples built to the name of God. It takes just as much to save a dead man as a living man.
~ Wilford Woodruff
I feel to say little else to the Latter-day Saints wherever and whenever I have the opportu- nity of speaking to them, than to call upon them to build these Tem- ples now under way, to hurry them up to completion. The dead will be after you, they will seek after you as they have after us in St. George. They called upon us, knowing that we held the keys and power to re- deem them.
~ Wilford Woodruff
I will here say, before closing, that two weeks before I left St. George, the spirits of the dead gath- ered around me, wanting to know why we did not redeem them. Said they, "You have had the use of the Endowment House for a num- ber of years, and yet nothing has ever been done for us. We laid the foundation of the government you now enjoy, and we never apos- tatized from it, but we remained true to it and were faithful to God." These were the signers of the De- claration of Independence, and they waited on me for two days and two nights. I thought it very singular, that notwithstanding so much work had been done, and yet nothing had been done for them. The thought never entered my heart, from the fact, I suppose, that here- tofore our minds were reaching after our more immediate friends and relatives. I straightway went into the baptismal font and called upon brother McCallister to baptize me for the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and fifty other eminent men, making one hundred in all, including John Wesley, Col- umbus, and others; I then baptized him for every President of the Uni- ted States, except three; and when their cause is just, somebody will do the work for them.
~ Wilford Woodruff
I straightway went into the baptismal font and called upon brother McCallister to baptize me for the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and fifty other eminent men, making one hundred in all, including John Wesley, Col- umbus, and others; I then baptized him for every President of the Uni- ted States, except three; and when their cause is just, somebody will do the work for them.
~ Wilford Woodruff
When the Savior comes, a thousand years will be devoted to this work of redemption; and Temples will appear all over this land of Joseph, --North and South America--and also in Europe and elsewhere; and all the descendants of Shem, Ham, and Japheth who received not the Gospel in the flesh, must be offi- ciated for in the Temples of God, before the Savior can present the kingdom to the Father, saying, "It is finished."
~ Wilford Woodruff