Saturday, December 2, 2023

Brigham Young Affirming that Joseph Smith is Subordinate to Jesus (January 17, 1847)

  

I met in Council with several of the Twelve, many of the Seventies and High Priests. Dr. Richards read “The Word and Will of the Lord” and all present voted unanimously to receive it.

 

I addressed the Assembly showing that the church had been led by Revelation just as much since the death of Joseph Smith as before, and that he was as great and good a man, and as great a Prophet as ever lived upon the earth, Jesus excepted. (Brigham Young, January 17, 1847, in Manuscript History of Brigham Young, 1846-1847, comp. Elden J. Watson [Salt Lake City: Elden J. Watson, 1971], 505)

 

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