Joseph Smith stood at the head of
this dispensation all the days he dwelt in the flesh. So did Brigham Young. I
traveled with Brigham Young at home and abroad, and I never saw a day in my
life but what he had the spirit and power of revelation of God with him. This
power was with him when he came to this land. It was with him when he laid the
foundations of our temples, and when he laid out the city of Salt Lake. He did
all these things by the inspiration and Spirit of Almighty God. (Wilford
Woodruff, Discourse
on “Revelation and Judgment,” delivered at the Weber Stake Conference, Ogden,
Utah, July 15, 1894, repr. The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star 56,
no. 41 [October 8, 1894]: 642)
