Brigham Young teaches that, if given the ability to revise his sermons, they should be considered as good as scripture.

Date
1871
Type
Speech / Court Transcript
Source
Brigham Young
LDS
Hearsay
Scribed Verbatim
Reference

Brigham Young, "Latter-Day Saint Families—Preaching the Gospel—Building Up the Kingdom," Journal of Discourses, 26 vols. (Liverpool: Horace S. Eldredge, 1871), 13:95.

Scribe/Publisher
John Grimshaw
People
Brigham Young
Audience
Reading Public, Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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Transcription

Well, brethren and sisters, try and be Saints. I will try; I have tried many years to live according to the law which the Lord reveals unto me. I know just as well what to teach this people and just what to say to them and what to do in order to bring them into the celestial kingdom, as I know the road to my office. It is just as plain and easy. The Lord is in our midst. He teaches the people continually. I have never yet preached a sermon and sent it out to the children of men, that they may not call Scripture. Let me have the privilege of correcting a sermon, and it is as good Scripture as they deserve. The people have the oracles of God continually. In the days of Joseph, revelation was given and written, and the people were driven from city to city and place to place, until we were led into these mountains. Let this go to the people with "Thus saith the Lord," and if they do not obey it, you will see the chastening hand of the Lord upon them. But if they are plead with, and led along like children, we may come to understand the will of the Lord and He may preserve us as we desire.

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