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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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