155 years ago today - Oct 16, 1857

[Brigham Young Sermon] In turning from this subject to little children, President Young said: When some people have little children born at 6 and 7 months from pregnancy and they live a few hours, then die, they bless them, name them etc. But I don't do it, for I think that such a spirit has not a fair chance, for I think that such a spirit will have a chance of occupying another tabernacle and develop itself. This is new doctrine, yet it looks consistent. What period of demarcation or age the spirit would take another body we were not informed. -- Salt Lake City [Wilford WoodruffÂ's Journal. 9 Vols. Scott G. Kenney, ed. Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1983-85. 5:109]

[Source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009)]