George Q. Cannon
1827 to 1901
English-born Mormon apostle, newspaper editor, counselor in four First Presidencies and five-time delegate from Utah Territory to the US Congress, serving from 1873 to 1881.
Appears in
Improvement Era
1 article
Journal of Discourses
113 discourses
- Privileges Enjoyed By the Saints—Confusion Existing in the World, &c
- The Increase of Faith Among the Saints—More Implicit in Their Obedience Now Than in the Days of Joseph—Comparisons Made By Men Between the Past and the Present—The Magnitude of the Work of God, Etc.
- Knowledge of the Saints a Cause of Consolation Under Affliction—Children Heirs to the Kingdom of God—Power of the Gospel to Unite Parents and Children—Blessings of Obedience, Etc.
- Blessings of the People of God—Power of Evil and Unseen Influences—Ministration of Angels—Faith Necessary First As A Preparation for Greater Things—Holy Spirit Necessary for the Right Performance of Temporal Duties
- Revelation in the Church—Necessity of Obedience to Counsel—Confidence in the Future of the Saints—Duty of Striving to Increase Our Faith
- Causes of Gratitude that the Saints Have—Spiritual and Temporal Blessings Enjoyed By Them—Greater Promises Made to Them Than the Ancients—Obedience to Counsel Necessary
- Condition of the Saints, Etc.
- Riches of the Gospel
- Conflict of Truth Irrepressible—Sin Causes Fear, Then Apostasy
- Truth to Be Received for Its Own Sake—Impossibility of Perceiving the Things of God From a Worldly Point of View—Maternal Influence
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Portrait: photograph, Charles Roscoe Savage (1832-1909); original held by the L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Brigham Young University, circa 1875-1883. Source: Wikimedia Commons. Public domain: cabinet card photograph by Charles R. Savage (Art Bazar, Salt Lake City), who died in 1909, taken between about 1875 and 1883 (Wikimedia Commons licence: Public domain; PD-old-100-expired).
