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(1/4/98)
"There are those that know not God. There are those
that think the Latter-day Saints are a mistaken people,
that they are deluded and that they have no faith in the
supernatural; but I say here today that I know the mantle
of Joseph Smith fell upon the Prophet Brigham Young. I
know it, and I am willing to meet the testimony that I
bear. How do I know it? I know it because of my mother, a
more honest woman than whom never lived, a more devoted
Latter-day Saint can not be found; because she and scores
of others have told me that they saw the Prophet Brigham
Young when he spoke with the voice of Joseph Smith; when
he looked like the prophet Joseph; and I know that these
people are honest; and in addition to this I know by the
inspiration of God to me that Brigham Young was a Prophet
of God."—Heber J. Grant, Conference
Report, October 1898
(1/5/98)
"Thousands and tens of thousands of men saw the
Prophet Joseph who never once intimated that they thought
or believed that he was a prophet of God. Thousands knew
the son of God personally, but they never believed He was
the Son of God, be cause the Father did not bear record
to them. But to us He has borne record that Joseph was a
prophet of the living God. He has borne record to us that
Jesus is His Only Begotten Son in the flesh, the Redeemer
of the World. He committed this testimony and knowledge
to this people. He has given us a knowledge also
concerning President Brigham Young, that great and grand
man who led Israel in those dark and dismal days after
the death of the Prophet Joseph, out of bondage unto this
land of liberty, and established us here. What wonders he
did for us! He was a man among men--the very proper man
to follow in the footsteps of the Prophet Joseph. We do
not know him as we will yet know him."—Francis
M. Lyman, Conference Report, April
1899
(1/6/98)
"The Lord has thus been training and schooling us
since the days of the Prophet. The Prophet Joseph Smith
fulfilled his mission most grandly, and he laid down his
life for the testimony of Jesus. The Prophet Brigham
built upon the foundation that the Prophet Joseph laid,
under the direction of the Lord. The Prophet Brigham was
the servant and lion of the Lord in the midst of His
people. The Lord counseled and led him; and the result of
his labors and the inspiration and great power which God
gave him is seen on every hand."—Francis M.
Lyman, Conference Report, April 1901
(1/7/98)
"William H. Seward, who was secretary of state in
the days of Abraham Lincoln, impressed with the character
of President Brigham Young, made the statement that
America had produced no greater statesman than the Mormon
prophet, Brigham Young."—Matthias F. Cowley, Conference
Report, October 1901
(1/8/98)
"I knew President Brigham Young, and I bear my
testimony to the world that not only was Joseph Smith
inspired of God and raised up to lay the foundations of
this great latter day work, but Brigham Young was raised
up and sustained by the power of Almighty God to continue
the mission of Joseph and to accomplish the work that he
laid out during his lifetime."—Joseph F. Smith,
Conference Report, October 1901
(1/9/98)
"We know that Brigham Young was a powerful and
wonderful man, the greatest man of his day, and one of
the great things about Brigham Young was that he always
gave credit to Joseph Smith for everything that he did.
He claimed that he was simply building upon the
foundation laid by the prophet of God, who had seen God
and conversed with Jesus Christ. He never doubted for one
minute the final triumph of the people here in Utah. He
was a man of God, and the people thought the world and
all of him."—Heber J. Grant, Conference
Report, October 1940
(1/10/98)
"His labors the Lord has crowned with most
remarkable success. His words he has honored and
fulfilled, and those who have obeyed his counsel he has
blessed and upheld. The time will yet come when his
presidency over the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints will be pointed to as an epoch of wonderful
events."—Messages of the First
Presidency, 2:298
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