[Brigham Young Sermon] I say to the Latter-day Saints, that the only reason why we do not take up the subject and enter into the organization of Enoch, or a city of Enoch, is simply because we have not yet been able to find every item of law bearing upon this matter, so as to organize in a way that apostates cannot trouble us. This is the only reason. It is a matter that I am paying particular attention to, with some of my brethren, to see if we have skill enough to get up an organization and draw up papers to bind ourselves together under the laws of the United States, so that we can put our means and labor together and join as one family. ...
[Source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]
" ... and join as one family."
ReplyDeleteIn the new heaven and the new earth in eternity, there will be only one family, the family of God [JEHOVAH] with His eternal sons and eternal daughters. The holy angels are also sons of God. There will be no cousins, aunts, uncles, fathers, mothers, nieces, nephews. Only brothers and sisters.
JOD 16:122
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Remarks by President Brigham Young, delivered in the Bowery, Logan City, Sunday Morning, June 29, 1873.
Reported By: David W. Evans.
In conclusion, all sons and daughters of God are such only thru ADOPTION, Jesus Christ being the ONLY EXCEPTION, He being the ONLY BEGOTTEN of the Father.
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