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  • Times and Seasons/1/4
    ...Dear Sir: I have just been privileged with a perusal of a letter, put into my hands by Mr. D. W. Rogers, which letter was directed to him, dated February ...to suffer affliction with the people of God,) in connection with others of my brethren, to be made a severe sufferer, by the hands of the above mentioned
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/25
    ...nce to me what part I take in the drama, I am pleased at all times to hear my brethren speak, and it likewise gives me pleasure to address the Saints for ...ay account for our singular gathering, and our peculiar location here. And notwithstanding we may have a few trials and difficulties, and various things that frequent
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  • Journal of Discourses/1/53
    |H=MEN ETERNAL BEINGS—DARKNESS, IGNORANCE, AND WEAKNESS OF THE WORLD—PRIVILEGES OF THE SAINTS |T=Journal of Discourses 1: MEN ETERNAL BEINGS—DARKNESS, IGNORANCE, AND WEAKNESS OF THE WORLD—PRIVILEGES OF THE SAINTS
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/2
    ...at without that Spirit I never could command language sufficient to convey my ideas. ...have been able to convey, with any degree of force, the ideas presented to my mind, without the Spirit of the Lord. Believing in this fact, I have never
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/3
    ...ks that have been made by brother Jackman, for they have been according to my feelings, they were right to the point, and many useful ideas have been thr ...and distress; all these are predicted, and laid before this people in the Book of Doctrine and Covenants. The Lord says, unless His servants should hearke
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  • Journal of Discourses/3/42
    ...ances, I feel the necessity for the faith of the Saints to be exercised in my behalf, to enable me to speak for the instruction and edification of so vas ...y good sized assembly, and to talk at least a couple of hours; when it was my turn to speak, some thirty minutes, perhaps, was as much time as I would wi
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  • Journal of Discourses/4/36
    ...Spencer, I will occupy a short time in speaking such things as may come to my mind, or as the Lord shall see proper to dictate. ...ink that this will apply to the Elders of Israel very extensively. Another weakness consists in their not taking care how they express themselves in the commun
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  • Times and Seasons/2/4
    ...of every important occurrence, at least so far as would effect my duty to my fellow men, in such as contained important information upon the subject of ...people, or in a figurative form, and consequently require spiritualizing, notwithstanding they are as conspicuously plain, and are meant to be understood according t
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  • Journal of Discourses/5/34
    ...by my relating a part of his conversation with me yesterday. He came into my office and wished to know whether I could be reconciled to him, and whether ...ot know that I can make all this vast congregation hear and understand me. My voice never was very strong, but it has been very much weakened of late yea
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  • Journal of Discourses/6/8
    In my opinion, there is no person that can know the final result of the present m It is said in the good Book that "Not many wise, not many mighty, not many learned are called; but God
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  • Journal of Discourses/6/30
    ...you longer than I have had the privilege of doing at any former period of my life. ...arter-of-a-century, I should answer—Among the nations; for that has been my principal abiding place ever since the year 1830.
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  • Journal of Discourses/7/32
    ...l the truth as it comes fresh from heaven, independent of reading from any book. ...If I am presented with unwholesome food, or with poison that would destroy my life, am I obliged to eat it? No, though I may be obliged to have it presen
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  • Journal of Discourses/8/12
    ...tisfactory to me. It would satisfy every feeling, every desire,—in fact, my whole soul, without ever associating with another wicked person on the eart ...tand their condition when I meet with Saints? I am satisfied all is right: my soul is comforted.
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  • Journal of Discourses/10/57
    ...Blessed be ye poor; for yours is the kingdom of heaven." Again, "Hearken, my beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, ...Him, who feel their dependence upon Him, and feel and understand their own weakness and inability, who are thankful for their organization, and have full confi
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  • Journal of Discourses/26/24
    MY brethren and sisters and friends: I arise to speak with a little embar[r]as ...e hope that is within them, though they might do it conscious of their own weakness and with a measure of fear—not fear as to the truth of that which they mi
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  • Journal of Discourses/21/36
    ...eak|320|top}} books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in ...ire. This is the second death, and whomsoever was not found written in the book of life were cast into the lake of fire."
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  • Journal of Discourses/21/13
    ...n were left to grope in darkness and to wander in ignorance, but with that book it was believed that every man and every woman could understand themselves; ...through his servants? How many failures in life, because of our ignorance, notwithstanding the fountains of intelligence are open at which we can drink? How many of u
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  • Journal of Discourses/20/19
    |H=THE NATURAL WEAKNESS OF MEN—THE NECESSITY OF CHARITY—THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH THE GOSPEL WAS RE |T=Journal of Discourses 20: THE NATURAL WEAKNESS OF MEN—THE NECESSITY OF CHARITY—THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH THE GOSPEL WAS RE
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  • Journal of Discourses/11/22
    ...onsumptive, etc. These are weaknesses of the flesh; but may it be termed a weakness when men wilfully violate a plain, well-known law of God? The Lord requires ...re possible, the very elect; but as Jesus Christ hath said, "My sheep hear my voice, and will follow me, and a stranger they will not follow."
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  • Journal of Discourses/11/36
    ...to this subject, but cannot convey them to their fellow-beings. This is a weakness that I believe is inherent to a greater or less degree in each and every on ...on in a very able manner. Upon this subject I have my own reflections, and my own way of revealing those reflections to others.
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  • Journal of Discourses/13/24
    ...they have also their creeds and forms of worship; but when they take this book (the Bible) for their guide, in their religion, faith and works, they are o ...the commencement of my remarks who, destitute of a knowledge of their own weakness, can stand up anywhere and speak with boldness, and exhibit themselves, whe
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  • Journal of Discourses/15/31
    ...merchants in that place to purchase a bill of goods for them, and to give my own note until they could settle it; and being anxious that their business ...the Spirit of the Lord whispered to me, and I scarcely knew whether it was my own thoughts and imaginations or whether it was the revelations of the Spir
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  • Journal of Discourses/19/31
    ...d an attack of sickness since my return home, which has drawn heavily upon my strength. ...day Saints, I cannot but regret the cause of my presence among you. I left my home and friends here, but a few months ago, for Europe, expecting to fill
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  • Journal of Discourses/19/33
    |H=KING LIMHI'S ENQUIRY, FROM THE BOOK OF MORMON—AMMON REPLIES—SEERSHIP AND THE URIM AND THUMMIM—THE BROTHER |T=Journal of Discourses 19: KING LIMHI'S ENQUIRY, FROM THE BOOK OF MORMON—AMMON REPLIES—SEERSHIP AND THE URIM AND THUMMIM—THE BROTHER
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  • Journal of Discourses/20/9
    ...E BOOK OF MORMON—PROMISES TO THE LAMANITES—OBJECTS OF THE RECORD—THE BOOK OF ABRAHAM—GIFTS TO THE CHURCH—BENEFIT OF IMMEDIATE REVELATION—THE GR ...E BOOK OF MORMON—PROMISES TO THE LAMANITES—OBJECTS OF THE RECORD—THE BOOK OF ABRAHAM—GIFTS TO THE CHURCH—BENEFIT OF IMMEDIATE REVELATION—THE GR
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  • Journal of Discourses/17/23
    ...ue time, the tabernacle that he has thrown off for a moment. It is sown in weakness, says the Apostle Paul, it is raised in power; it is laid down as a mortal ...ith the Lord, "you and your people shall rest, Zion shall be taken up into my own bosom." Ancient Zion should be held in reserve until the day of rest sh
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  • Journal of Discourses/18/42
    I will read a few passages from the book of the Prophet Daniel, which he received from the Lord through vision, and ...ron, but they should be mixed with miry clay, indicating both strength and weakness. These last kingdoms and governments (such as have existed during the last
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  • Journal of Discourses/22/6
    I desire an interest in the faith and prayers of my brethren and sisters who are present, that I may be able to speak under the ...after wicked men had attempted several times in vain to destroy his life. Notwithstanding, the disciples of Jesus, excepting John the Revelator, suffered ignominious
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  • Journal of Discourses/23/13
    It is with great pleasure that I meet with you, my brethren and sisters, in Conference to-day. And though in some respects I a ...cause and question, and considerable has been said about us; but so far as my individual feelings have been concerned, I have not been disabled, not for
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  • Journal of Discourses/24/17
    ...e promises and the benefits which flow from them. And there is no doubt in my mind that if the Latter-day Saints will still continue to do as they have d ...ict conformity to the words of God as they are contained in this book (the Book of Doctrine and Covenants). Each man and each woman can interrogate himself
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  • Journal of Discourses/24/43
    I WILL read a portion of the 103rd Section of the Book of Doctrine and Covenants, commencing at the 5th paragraph: "But verily I say unto you, that I have decreed a decree which my people shall realize, inasmuch as they hearken from this very hour, unto th
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  • Messenger and Advocate/1/1
    ...as the Lord, she was forbidden to touch him: "For I am not yet ascended to my Father," were his words. See John, 20:17. ...finger and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side"! and in another place it is said, that soon after his ''resurrection'
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  • Messenger and Advocate/1/3
    ...I know, is much the same, of the other contiguous country, as described in my last: Extensive prairies, fringed with timber upon the streams. The streams But to my subject. The last Congress, if I am not mistaken, extended the limits, juri
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  • Messenger and Advocate/1/4
    As time is a succession of seconds, so is my letters a continuation of sketches respecting the western world. Before I p ...ld muddy-face, in power, in might, and in dominion, not only, as I said in my last, the President of rivers, but the Emperor of many waters, upon which s
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  • Messenger and Advocate/1/5
    ...," "Nephite Interpreters," or Divine Spectacles. I mean when you wrote the book of Mormon, containing the fulness of the gospel to the world, and the coven ...I said no more about it, till after I had removed to Canandaigua, when the book of Mormon was published.
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  • Messenger and Advocate/1/6
    ...men from darkness to light; and then, according to my manner, finish with my hand, ''writing to the heart''. The first thing that attracts my attention, is, "That God never works in vain. This is not the case with men
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  • Messenger and Advocate/1/11
    ...on the 6th day of April, 1830. These items are to be taken from the bible, book of Mormon, and the revelations which have been given to said church up to t ...cil of the church in Missouri, bore testimony that the revelations in said book were true, and the said high council of Missouri accepted and acknowledge t
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  • Messenger and Advocate/1/12
    ...ommunication, shall do little more than glance at the book of Mormon. That book is one of the most valuable treasures of the last days, and at once connect It is a good book and no ''honest'' person can read it, without feeling grateful to God, for
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  • Messenger and Advocate/2/2
    ...and have been excited to do so from rumor, in ascertaining correctly, what my principles are. ...hat is brought upon us from false rumor, and misrepresentations concerning my sentiments.
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  • Messenger and Advocate/2/4
    ...the 12th No. of the 4th volume of the Evangelist (as the editor calls its) my attention was particularly arrested with some quotations taken from some pa ...king a great ado about it. How true or false this is, I do not know;—for my own part, all the ado I have heard about it, is in the Evangelist, and from
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  • Messenger and Advocate/2/6
    ...isappeared''."-You will therefore confer a signal favor on me, and satisfy my inquiring mind, by giving a definite answer to the following interrogatorie Dear Sir, as those queries engross my whole thoughts on this interesting topic, I hope you will indulge me with a
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  • Messenger and Advocate/2/7
    ...o have already embraced the fulness of the gospel, as revealed through the book of Mormon,—having learned, by experience, that the enemy of truth does no ...ns in the free states signing documents against slavery, it is no less, in my mind, than an array of influence, and a declaration of hostilities against
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  • Messenger and Advocate/2/8
    ...shall be neither barren nor unfruitful in the work of the Lord. We expect, notwithstanding the great calamities that shall precede the appearance of the Savior, the w Remember, my young brethren and sisters, that God is not mocked with impunity. His all s
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  • Messenger and Advocate/3/3
    ...y the attention of my readers, with remarks on the dispensations preceding my own day, only as occasion may require, but to invite their attention to the ...o the world in the form in which they once existed has yet to be proven to my mind, for as yet I do not so understand the scriptures. That they may yet r
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  • Messenger and Advocate/3/6
    ...tly at war with the practice and principle of many at the present day, but notwithstanding this discrepancy the principle is no less heavenly, no less divine. In orde ..., and thirteenth centuries answer. Let the bloody inquisition disclose the weakness, the blackness,
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  • Messenger and Advocate/3/7
    ...I shall see for myself and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.''—Job 19:25,26,27. ...earth. Hence says he, though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: whom I shall see for myself and mine eyes shall beho
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  • Messenger and Advocate/3/11
    ...I do not stop here to ask, as I presume they are quite willing to exchange my labors for the labors of another, and in that change expect a more faithful ...unreasonable expectation, and an unwarranted call for labor on the part of my brother who succeeds me. I will here add, that were [t]he tnumerous [numero
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  • Messenger and Advocate/3/12
    ...communicate to you some knowledge of my travels, together with a sketch of my labors the present season. I left Kirtland in company with elder G. W. Meek ...heir meeting long but broke and joined ours. After having got through with my subject I gave an appointment for the next day at 4 o'clock, & then dismiss
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  • The Evening and The Morning Star/1/2
    ...have commanded concerning their teachings, until the fulness [fullness] of my Scriptures are given. And as they shall lift up their voices by the Comfort ...thy neighbor, or do him any harm. Thou knowest my laws, they are given in my Scriptures, he that sinneth and repenteth not, shall be cast out.
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