Translation: Presence of God

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  This people is addicted to, and it is a fault, to be always searching after doctrine, and never improving upon what they have; they want something new, something they never heard. I doubt you have not heard all I have said this day. Get up here, ye Elders of Israel, and tell what is in you! It is hard work to get a man to come on this stand, to feed the flock; how dormant you are. But many of the Elders say they want to go away and to preach to the people in the world. Is there any bigger folks than we are, that would hear you? Yes there is. Ye Elders of Israel, ye men of God, how much do you know about the Kingdom of God? and yet ye are always wanting to know something more, when you ought to improve upon what you have. The Prophet Joseph said to me, about sixteen years ago, "If I was to show the Latter-day Saints all the revelations that the Lord has shown unto me, there is scarce a man that would stay with me, they could not bear it." What is there so horrid, that you cannot bear it? Every trait in character that has been infused into man, since the fall, is as diametrically opposed as light is to darkness. Ye Elders of Israel, do you know the ways of God? If the Lord himself was to speak, to tell the Latter-day Saints what to do, he would come in the capacity of an Elder in Israel, and he would preach to you-you would hear precisely the very things that you do now. You may think I do not know, but I know you do not. Let me reveal a little of the will of the Lord. If you do not believe that I tell you the very truth as the secret of the heart of God, you never will be nigher to him than you now are. If he were to come in his power and glory you would dissolve away and go down to hell. He will appear, and you dissolve away, or he will come in the capacity of a man.

  President Brigham Young

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  • Translation: Presence of God

  21 Oct 2026