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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."

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"We had some talk about the injurious effects of the use of cocaine, which is a drug similar to opium, and sometimes leads those who use it to commit suicide. Bro. [Franklin D.] Richards told of a certain woman who is in the church, and who contemplated committing suicide.... Father said he believed some suicides would meet a Second Death."

Scope and Contents Joseph F. Smith (hereafter abbreviated to JFS), letter to Bishop, 26 October 1892, quoting letter of Bishop Thomas J. Stevens Frank J. Cannon, letter to JFS, 18 September 1896 Issac Trumbo, letter to Hiram B. Clawson, 10 February 1898 JFS, letter to Frank J. Cannon, 4 January 1900 Frank J. Cannon, letter to Walter J. Beatie, 10 March 1902 Frank J. Cannon, letter to B. H. Roberts, 24 October 1902...

Scope and Contents George Q. Cannon, interview with Col. Trumbo and Bishop Clawson, 17 August 1894 James S. Clarkson, letter to H. B. Clawson, 1 September 1894 Wilford Woodruff, letter to James S. Clarkson, n.d. George Q. Cannon, interview with General Clarkson and Colonel Trumbo, 25 September 1894 James S. Clarkson, letter to George Q. Cannon, 26 September...

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Scope and Contents "While in Kirtland there was some conversation among some of the elders as though I had ought to be ordained but I informed them notwithstanding I felt as though it was my indispensable [?] duty to preach the gospel that I was unwilling to be ordained unless it was by the consent of all the elders or it should be made known by revelation for I had heard that Newel Knight had said that it was not expedient that I should be ordained but it did appear by revelation that God required that I...

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This series contains the files by and about people in LDS history, arranged alphabetically by last name. The material in the files consists of typed extracts from the originals or photocopies. Selected quotes and a listing of letters indicate the nature of the material found in each folder. The quotations provide a sampling of the numerous topics covered.

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"Extracts from Wm Claytons private Book," 56 pp., including the following headings: "Keys," "Observation on the Sectarian God," "Priesthood," "Behold a sower went forth to sow &c," "A Key to the Revelations of John," "A Revelation given at Kirtland," "A Revelation," "Prophecy on War," and "The subject of the dispensation of the fulness of times."

Scope and Contents Josephine Smith, letter to Cousin Joseph [JSF], 19 March 1857, 3 pp. Josephine Smith, letter to Cousin Joe [JFS], 22 July 1857, 5 pp., says: "Is polygamy not spoken of as a crime there [in the Book of Mormon]? Did not Uncle Joseph himself say that 'it was not commanded him, but was permitted him? ... Does that bring ...