The following comes from
Brigham Young, sermon at the dedication of the Seventies' Hall, in George Laub reminiscences and journal, 60-64, MS 1983, Church History Library
By President Brigham Young
Commencing the Kingdom. At the
dedication of the Seventys Hall. Now concerning the organisation of the kingdom
of god is brought to pass. The Savior told his deciples as he Seen the father
do so does he, & as Joseph Smith seen Jesus doo so did Joseph do, & as
I seen Joseph do so do I also, though follow me & I will lead you into the
Kingdom & If I do not then my Soul for yours. All i want you to do is to
obey my council to what I tell you.
The Kingdom is first organised
with puting a head to it, then the various members belonging to the body. First
Joseph, then the Twelve, then the High Priests, then the Seventys & Elders,
then the leser priesthood & Teachers & Deacons & members. This
fills the Whole body & if we take any of these offices away the body has a
vacancy or a cisem p[chasm?] is in the body. But Christ is the head of all, for
he is our head & Elder Brother. For we was once organised before God, &
Jesus was the first born or begotten of the Father & we ware sent here upon
this Earth to choose bodys & dwell here in the flesh as our Father who is
in heaven. God sent our father Adam first & Eve. He placed them in the
garden. Then he gave Adam a commandment to people this earth, to multyply &
replenish the Earth, & told him not to eat of the tree of forbiden fruit,
But the devil, being one of the organised of the hevenly body, third in power,
prince of the Eir, he had a Spirit like Cain. he saw that Jesus was the most
[acc]epted before the Father, for he loved rituousness & hated in[i]quity.
This gave a jelousy to him & he began sent to this Earth. Saten then went
forth & told Eve that She Should know good & evil if She eat of the
forbiden or of the tree of knowledg, & She did Eat, for he told her meny
truith and some lies. But yet this was the decree of the Father. For when he
sent Adam on this Earth he decreed it that he might for get all about his
former Estate, and this is the way that God first introduced Sin into the world
that man might be Exalted & bring about the great purpus of God. For this
was foreordained from before the foundation of the world, that men might be
Exalted, & first to decend below all things that he or they might raise
above all things as the Father did before us & be able to create worlds
& goe from world to a nother. Therefore the heavens cannot contain him
because he can goe where he pleases & any that are noe hier then [no higher
than] himself, and this is what he wants us to doo, & the relationship we
sustain to God is that we are Sons of God and heirs Joint [h]eirs with Jesus.
For he came and pertook a body as we did, left the Father that he might Exalt
himself & redeem this world among his brethren by establishing the
priesthood after the order of melcesadeck and was a Saviour to the Brethren,
and now we are to be Saviours of men of our brethren to redeem our dead friends
& the friends of those who will not save their own friends, to Exalt or
selvs untill we are all linked together again. For one dispensation will hand
in their work after another, till the Son Jesus hath them all or our Elder
Brother. And so we will return home to our Father who sent us that we may exalt
ourselvs & glorify him who sent us. Then we shall have powwe to create
worlds ourselvs & rule them as Jesus did, for Jesus when on the earth
called the twelve deciples his brethren & all who did the will of the
father in heaven, & the Scripture also tels us of the prodigal Son who left
his fathers house & went a far Jurney, also that there is non our Father
but one who is in heaven.
