The following excerpts are from:
The Office Journal of President Brigham Young:
1858-1863 Book D, ed. Fred C. Collier (Hanna, Utah: Collier’s Publishing Co., 2006)
February 24, 1860
President Young in the course of his remarks
alluded to the zeal of Hyrum Smith, Brother of the Prophet, in his views of The
Word of Wisdom, who prophesied that Every Saint who Chewed tobacco would apostatize.
President Young observed, he [i.e. Hyrum] prophesied by Hyrum Smith and not by
the Spirit of the Lord, and that he (Hyrum would eat about 3 lb of fat pork in
a day; and yet be so severe upon a tobacco chewer; upon other points, observed
the President, Hyrum Smith was a man of knowledge. Once Joseph told his Brother
Hyrum [that] if he would suffer him to dictate him, he should lead the Church
to Hell, and he would frequently sit and sneer at the remarks of Bro Hyrum,
which were frequently delivered to the congregation when they were weary with
the remarks of the preachers that had preceded him. This variety of men
composes those who love God, and one class have certain failings, and another
failings of a different kind and we must learn to bear with each others
failings while we are all trying to do right. (p. 42)
March 12, 1860
President Young said: “I will tell you how I
reason—the Lord placed certain plants here for some purpose; the Lord has given
us wheat & beef for nourishing our bodies and if the herbs were useless
what did he put them there for. The President believed and practiced the taking
of medicine, and it is better to gather up a little catnip and make tea of it
than to ask the Lord to send an Angel to cure us when we can do so much ourself—nevertheless
he believed in the ordinances to be used with mild herbs according to the
revelation given upon that subject. (p. 53)
February 23, 1861
Telestial Glory
President Young attended a party at the Social
all. Govr Cumming & Judge Crosby & Kinney were pre
there also. While the President fell into conversation with the brethren about
the three glories a which are described in the vision given to Joseph
Smith Jr, which we find written in the book of Doctrine &
Covenants. The President emphatically and distinctly said [that] those who
enter the glory of the Telestial world will have to dwell singly and separately
apart; they will not marry there, they will be happy. It will be nearly the
same with the telest Terrestrial Glory—they will not marry although
their glory will be infinitely greater. None but the Gods will be allowed
to multiply and increase. In Celestial Glory there will be many who will be
single also. (p. 212, emphasis in bold added)
March 3, 1861
President Young attended Tabernacle in the
afternoon. He remarked [that] if our Saviour as here we should not like him so
well as we did him—he, Brigham, was more like us than the Saviour. (p. 214)
September 17, 1861
Br Stoddard further remarked that he heard Joseph
Morriss say to the brethren, “hold on a few days longer and we shall see the
destruction of the Mormons and the power of God in their behalf”; the
Morrissites would not join the Militia of the Territory—they would rather pay
the fines. They should [showed] Br Stoddard a Map of the
different worlds, showing the processions of them—for one of them was B.
Young’s world, another was Joseph Morriss’s worlds &c. Joseph Smith had
only 1/6 part of the Keys of the Kingdom,--also Mentioned an order of
confirmation, ^of an Elect lady & heiress pouring oil on their
head, saying: We annoint your head with holy and consecrated oil in the name of
Jesus Christ and by authority of the holy priesthood of this the seventh
dispensation, we also annoint your womb that you may bear children to the Glory
of God &c. bring forth a holy seed unto the Lord and that
thou Mayest be an heiress to the Melchzedeck priesthood. (pp. 291-92)
January 8, 1862
Elder E. T. Benson who had called in with Peter
Maughan & Bp. Harrington, mentioned that Joseph Morriss the Crazy prophet
said that these light Snows was an evidence of Gods favor to them, in their unsheltered
state. He mentioned that Br. Primrose asked Morriss to show him Aaron’s rod.
The prophet told him he was mistaken—he had no such rod—the Morrissites had
burnt up every thing near them for fuel, and their necessarily must soon break
up. (p. 334)
