Don Bradley, in a recent interview with Pastor Jeff of Hello Saints (Do Latter-day Saints Actually Believe in the Trinity? | HONEST Conversation), pointed out that Lorenzo Snow’s couplet seems to have been focused more on Jesus, not the Father. As it has been a while since I read the Journal of Discourses (I read the set back in 2007), I decided to check this out, and Don seems to be correct (emphasis added):
As man now is, God once was—even
the babe of Bethlehem, advancing to childhood—thence to boyhood,
manhood, then to the Godhead. This, then, is the "mark of the prize of
man's high calling in Christ Jesus."
Source: Lorenzo Snow, "No Prominent Latter-Day Saint
Who Lives His Religion Need Expect Justice in the Courts—the Same Sacrifices
May Be Required of Modern As of Ancient Apostles—the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-Day Saints Established By Divine Revelation—We Will Be Made Perfect By
Suffering—Our Character As Latter-Day Saints Must Be Preserved Inviolate—Visit
of Jesus to Kirtland Temple—Farewell," January 10, 1886, Journal of
Discourses, 26 vols. (Liverpool: Daniel H. Wells, 1886), 26:368
