[Brigham Young Sermon] ... it is a great mystery to the world that the LDS are so attached to each other and forsaking fathers, mothers, wives, and children, goods and chattels and every thing calculated to bind men to earth - this is a marvel to all - in the days of the Apostles and in the latter times, when the kingdom should be on the face of the earth, this spirit binds the hearts of its adherents together and every woman will forsake their husbands even for the gospels sake and this is verified in this our day - strange as it is - and cleave to those who love the gospel - and we cannot help it - if my father, mother, brothers, and sisters reject the gospel, farewell father mother brothers and sisters. I am for the kingdom of heaven.
... thousands are crying by day and night to the Lord that they may get to this place - I am for raising a perpetual fund for the benefit of the poor - we have appointed a company to collect means
... the heavens have been opened to my views and I know as well as old Peter did - its for me to tell you what the Lord wants you to do today - I just know that the Lord requires this - and we have got to put it to usury, or it will canker our souls - and we have to prepare ourselves for the coming of the Son of Man pestilence worse than the cholera, distress and dismay will cover the earth. -- Cottonwood, Utah
[Source: Thomas Bullock Minutes, LJA; Thomas Bullock—LDS Church Reporter, 1844-56.C, Archives, Church History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah.; GCM, Archives, Church History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah..; Leonard J. Arrington Papers, Special Collections, Merrill-Cazier Library, Utah State University, Logan.. (A reference reading LJA 12-55-5, 10, means LJA Series 12, Box 55, Folder 5, page 10.) 9-12-5, 25-27 as quoted in The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
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ReplyDelete"... every woman will forsake their husbands ..."
ReplyDeleteThis was a Brigham catch-phrase for obtaining more plural wives for his and the other fallen apostles' harems.
The fallen apostle Parley P. Pratt was killed a little less than 8 years later (May 1857) when in Arkansas he was caught in in the act of luring Hector B.McLean's wife into his polygamous harem. Hector decided to send some hot lead in Parley's direction with fatal consequences for Parley - the most surprised dead apostle there ever was.
PPP was tracked down by Hector and his brother just like hunting a rabid coyote or a nuisance wolf.
ReplyDelete" ... its for me to tell you what the Lord wants you to do today - I just know that the Lord requires this ..."
ReplyDeleteBrigham the fallen apostle now growing into his new role as the dictator and tyrant of Utah territory.