Heber C. Kimball informs Church members he has learned by experience that the God that pertains to this earth and to us is "the first man."

Date
1857
Type
Speech / Court Transcript
Source
Heber C. Kimball
LDS
Hearsay
Scribed Verbatim
Reference

Heber C. Kimball "The Saints Should Prepare for Future Emergencies—Evil Spirits—Their Power and Organization—the Chain of the Priesthood—Angels Are Ministering Spirits," Journal of Discourses, 26 vols. (Liverpool: S.W. Richards, 1857), 4:1

Scribe/Publisher
S.W. Richards
People
Heber C. Kimball
Audience
Latter-day Saints, Reading Public
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Transcription

I have learned by experience that there is but one God that pertains to this people, and He is the God that pertains to his earth—the first man. That first man sent his own Son to redeem the world, to redeem his brethren; his life was taken, his blood shed, that our sins might be remitted. That Son called twelve men and ordained them to be Apostles, and when he departed the keys of the kingdom were deposited with three of those twelve, viz.: Peter, James, and John. Peter held the keys pertaining to that Presidency, and he was the head.

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