Smith, Joseph Jr. : He Knew More
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in History, 1838–1856 [Manuscript History of the Church]
Joseph Smith
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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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Though the enemy had power to kill our Prophet, that is, kill his body, did he not accomplish all that was in his heart to accomplish in his day? He did, to my certain knowledge, and I have many witnesses here that heard him declare that he had done everything he could do—he had revealed everything that could be revealed at present, he had prepared the way for the people to walk in, and no man or woman should be deprived of going into the presence of the Father and the Son, and enjoying an eternal exaltation, if they would walk in the path he had pointed out.
President Brigham Young
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Many men,” said he [Joseph Smith], “will say
President Heber C. Kimball
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No wonder that Joseph Smith should say that he felt himself shut up in a nutshell, there was no power of expansion, it was difficult for him to reveal and communicate the things of God, because there was no place to receive them. What he had to communicate was so much more comprehensive, enlightened and dignified than that which the people generally knew and comprehended, it was difficult for him to speak; he felt fettered and bound, so to speak, in every move he made, and so it is to the present time. Yet this being a fact and these being part of the things we expect to accomplish, there must be a beginning somewhere; and if the chips do fly once in a while when the hewer begins to hew, and if we do squirm once in a while it is not strange, because it is so difficult for the people to comprehend the things which are for their benefit. We have been brought up so ignorantly and our ideas and views are so contracted it is scarcely possible to receive the things of God as they exist in his bosom.
Elder John Taylor
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