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"The Gospel Teacher and His Message"

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"I had a conversation with Bro. [Lorenzo] Snow about various doctrines. Bro. Snow said I would live to see the time when brothers and sisters would marry each other in this church. All our horror at such a union was due entirely to prejudice, and the offspring of such unions would be as healthy and pure as any other These were the decided views of Pres. [Brigham] Young when alive, for Bro. S[now] talked to him freely on this matter."

Scope and Contents "Father [George Q. Cannon] proved ... by passages from the Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants that all men, even the sons of perdition, will be resurrected and stand before God to be judged. He believes that Jesus Christ is Jehovah, and that Adam is his father and our God; that under certain unknown conditions the benefits of the savior's atonement extend to our entire solar system. Jesus, in speaking of himself as the very eternal Father speaks as one of the Godhead, etc. Many...

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"Pres. [Wilford] Woodruff spoke in regard to second anointings and said the presidents of stakes were to be the judges of who were worthy to receive them, but it was an ordinance of the eternal world which belonged particularly to old men."

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"The recent report of the Utah Commission, the full text of which just came during the night, was discussed. False statements: that 18 polygamous marriages have been performed since the manifesto was issued."

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"They [the First Presidency] expressed themselves very freely on the disunion which has existed among us, and desired to know from all present whether or not we considered they had a right to dictate to us the policy we should pursue in pos [politics?], as well as in all other things, temporal or spiritual. The brethren all agreed that this was the right of the Presidency."

Scope and Contents "I [George Q. Cannon] am thankful for what has been revealed.... There has been a disposition since the days of Nauvoo for men to seek to add to their future kingdoms by having dead persons sealed and adopted to them. Amasa Lyman once said, 'When it comes to the game of kingdoms, I can hold my own with any of them,' meaning that his following was as large.... Adoptions to certain men naturally led men to seek counsel from those to whom they were thus adopted, and consequently the Presidency...

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"George Q. Cannon has deeded big house in Seventeenth Ward to Hiram B. Clawson for use of Clarkson, Trumbo, and others. I told father that I felt certain he will yet find that Clawson receives some pecuniary advantage from this deal. Indeed, I told father that I knew of Clawson having had a rakeoff on sums of money which the church paid U.S. Marshal Benton to keep him quiet during the Raid."