Seek Ye Diligently And Teach One Another

It Is Said That Brother Joseph In His Lifetime Declared That The Elders Of This Church Should Step Forth At A Particular Time When The Constitution Should Be In Danger, And Rescue It, And Save It. This May Be So; But I Do Not Recollect That He Said Exactly So. I Believe He [joseph] Said Something Like This - That The Time Would Come When The Constitution And The Country Would Be In Danger Of An Overthrow; And Said He, If The Constitution Be Saved At All, It Will Be By The Elders Of This Church. I Believe This Is About The Language, As Nearly As I Can Recollect It.

I Would Not Have Suffered My Name To Have Been Used By My Friends On Anywise As President Of The United States, Or Candidate For That Office, If I And My Friends Could Have Had The Privilege Of Enjoying Our Religious And Civil Rights As American Citizens, Even Those Rights Which The Constitution Guarantees Unto All Her Citizens Alike.

God Judges Men According To The Use They Make Of The Light Which He Gives Them.

I Told Them I Was But A Man, And They Must Not Expect Me To Be Perfect; If They Expected Perfection From Me, I Should Expect It From Them; But If They Would Bear With My Infirmities And The Infirmities Of The Brethren, I Would Likewise Bear With Their Infirmities.

Nothing Is So Much Calculated To Lead People To Forsake Sin As To Take Them By The Hand And To Watch Over Them In Tenderness. When Persons Manifest The Least Kindness And Love To Me, O What Pow'r It Has Over My Mind.