A great many of the newcomers have been in the Church but a short time, but you may take the Saints as a body, from those who have been in the Kingdom twenty, and twenty-two years, to those who have embraced it but a few years past, and, according to my feelings and faith, and I will call upon every man and woman, who has got the Holy Ghost, to say whether I am right; faith and good works are rapidly increasing among this people. You know whether I tell the truth, or not. If they have not increased, for heavens sake, for Gods sake, for your own souls sake, for Zions sake, for Jerusalems sake, and for the sake of scattered Israel, let them increase from this time henceforth. Let “Mormonism,” the faith of the Gospel, which is “Mormonism,” continue to increase, and cease all your evil deeds, and return to the Lord, and be honest and true. I tell you that a man cannot believe “Mormonism” as I do, and be a bad man. --Brigham Young, April 6, 1855, JD 2:258.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 17:05:05 +0000