Volume 4

70 chapters

• The Saints Should Prepare for Future Emergencies: Evil Spirits; Their Power and Organization; The Chain of the Priesthood; Angels Are Ministering Spirits
• A Prayer
• A Visit, By P. P. Pratt, to the Southern Settlements: The Power of the Priesthood; Union Among the Saints; A Miracle
• Why the Saints Rejoice: The Spirit Received Through Laying on of Hands; Cleanliness
• The Holy Ghost Necessary in Preaching: Faith; Healing the Sick; The Saints' Interests Are One; All of Our Efforts Should Tend to the Upbuilding of the Kingdom of God
• Testimony to the Divinity of Joseph Smith's Mission: Elders Should Go to Their Missions Without Purse or Scrip; The Lord Deals With the Saints; Jesus Their President; Satan Angry
• A Call for An Expression of the Condition of the People: Repentance Among the Saints Necessary; Renewing of Covenants
• Application of the Words of Helaman to the Condition of the Latter-day Saints
• Rebuking Iniquity
• The People of God Disciplined By Trials: Atonement By the Shedding of Blood; Our Heavenly Father; A Privilege Given to All the Married Sisters in Utah
• Reformation Necessary Among the Saints: Infidel Philosophy
• Effects of a Murmuring Spirit: Companies on the Plains; Those Who Enter Heaven Have to Pass the Inspection of the First Presidency
• Counsel Concerning Immigration: Benefits to Be Derived From An Early Start; Crossing the Plains With Handcarts, Etc.
• Companies on the Plains: Practicability of Handcarts; The Time for Starting From Missouri River; Reformation, Etc.
• The Gospel Like a Net Cast Into the Sea: Good and Bad in the Church; Embrace Principles in Your Faith, not Men; Confess Only to Those Against Whom You Have Sinned; Economize the Gifts of God, Etc.
• Persons Not to Be Baptized Until They Repent and Make Restitution: All Sin to Be Repented of Before Partaking of the Sacrament, Etc.
• Hypocrisy Reproved: Family Government, Etc.
• The Emigrant Saints: Children More Susceptible of Tuition Than Adults
• Temptation and Trials Necessary to Exaltation: If the Saints Perform Their Obligations, the Lord Will not Fail in His; Handcart Emigration Preferable to that By Ox-Teams
• The Facilities Afforded By the Handcart Movement for the Gathering of Israel: The Saints Specially Opposed By the Devil in Any New Enterprise; Reformation
• The Handcart Emigration: Opinions of the Emigrants Concerning It; Females Endure the Journey Better Than Males, Etc.
• Emigration: The Saints Warned to Repent or Judgments Will Come Upon Them
• The Emigrating Saints Were Prompted By The Spirit of God
• Discord at Meetings Rebuked: A Text for Speakers at the Conference; Subject for the People; A Call for Mules, Horses, Wagons, Teamsters, Flour, Etc.
• The Handcart Enterprise: Returning Missionaries; Exhortation to the Saints to Rescue the Brethren and Sisters on the Plains, Etc.
• God is Our Father; Joseph Smith His Representative on the Earth; Brigham Young Joseph's Legal Successor: Call for Teams to Meet the Emigrants
• Those Who Are in Darkness Cannot Discern the Light: Exhortations to Male and Female to Seek After the Light of the Holy Ghost; Women Who Leave Their Husbands, Etc.
• On the Death of President Jedediah M. Grant
• Remarks at the Funeral of President Jedediah M. Grant
• Reformation: A Test at Hand to Prove the Saints
• The People Asleep: Those Holding the Priesthood Must Magnify Their Callings or Be Removed; The Saints to Be Tried Even Unto Death
• Overcome the Powers of Darkness By Prayer: Spiritual Things First in Importance; Cleanliness
• The Saints Have not Magnified Their Calling As Saviors of the Living and the Dead: Oneness; Practical Repentance
• Offers of Mercy: The Great Dispensation in Which We Live
• The Body of Christ: Parable of the Vine; A Wild Enthusiastic Spirit not of God; The Saints Should not Unwisely Expose Each Others' Follies
• Man Must Use His Energies and Cultivate the Gifts of God: Necessity of Following Counsel; Reformation Must Be Intrinsic and not a Matter of Excitement
• Exhortation to Cleanliness: Many of the Saints Spiritually Dead
• Necessity of Obeying the Instructions and Revelations Given: The Importance of Obtaining the Holy Ghost; The Labors of the Saints Are for Their Own Salvation, and not to Enrich the Lord
• Prophets Weep Because of the Sins of the People: One Generation Should Improve Upon the Experience of Another; Many Set Their Hearts on Perishable Things; Provisions Are Made for the Exaltation of All; The Spirit Should Rule the Flesh; Limited Knowledge of Man; Phenomenon of Forgetfulness; Natural Philosophy; Emigration
• The Presidency: The Continuance of the Head With the Body Depends on the Faithfulness of the Members; Men When They Die Cannot Take Their Earthly Possessions With Them; Elders Going on Missions With Handcarts; The Vineyard, a Parable
• A Dream: Wheat and the Chaff; Way of Escape From Tribulation; Necessity of Consecration
• To Know God is Eternal Life: God the Father of Our Spirits and Bodies; Things Created Spiritually First; Atonement By the Shedding of Blood
• The Ax that is Laid at the Root of the Tree: Regeneration; Products of Polygamy, a Numerous Offspring, Etc.
• Intelligence Comes From God: Seek First the Kingdom of God; Great Changes to Take Place on the Earth; Israel of the Last Days; Why the Jews Cannot Be Converted
• The Parable of the Sower: The Priesthood Reaches Behind the veil; How Intolerable It Will Be for Those Who Apostatize; Popularity of Governor Young Compared With that of the Rulers of the Nations; The Kingdoms of this World, Etc.
• Union of the Saints: The World is Trained to Be Selfish; We Are Dependent Upon Christ and Each Other; Individual Exertion Necessary to Accomplish the Purposes of God
• Obedience Produces Confidence: Consecration; Concentration of Interests; Etc.
• Misapplication of the Term Sacrifice: The Saints Are Gainers By the Work of God; Resistance of Evil; Degeneracy; The Way of Regeneration; How to Treat Our Wives
• Man the Head of Woman: Kingdom of God; The Seed of Christ; Polygamy; Society in Utah
• Necessity for Reformation a Disgrace: Intelligence a Gift, Increased By Imparting; Spirit of God; Variety in Spiritual As Well As in Natural Organizations; God the Father of the Spirits of All Mankind; Etc.
• Departed Spirits Continue With the Dispositions They Possessed on Earth: The Order and Necessary Unity of the Priesthood Illustrated; Counsel to the Married
• Our Relatives, Those Who Do the Will of God: The Elders Should Be As Fathers and Shepherds in Israel, and not As Masters; Self-Confidence, and the Way to Obtain It; The Prophet Joseph not Yet Resurrected; Preaching to the Spirits in Prison, Etc.
• The “Deseret News,” Its Value: Worth and Virtue of Sacred Relics; Resurrection; Confidence in Our Leaders
• He that Loveth Not His Brother Loveth Not God: If We Have Not Confidence in Our Leaders We Shall Not Have It in a Higher Power; The Church Holds the Keys of Salvation; The Providences of God to the Saints
• Object of the Express Carrying Company: Why Success Attends the Ministerial Labors of Some Elders, and Not Those of Others; Counsel to Store Up Grain Enough to Last Seven Years
• Indebtedness to the P. E. Fund: Public Works; True Prosperity; Dependence on the Lord; Self-Consecration
• The Power and Importance of Economy: Domestic Extravagance and Mismanagement, With Their Bad Results
• The Latter-Day Work: Necessity of An Inspired Leader to Stand at the Head of Israel, Etc., and to Dictate in Spiritual and Temporal Affairs
• Journey to the North: Unanimity and Peaceful Order of the Company; Geographical Character of the Country Traversed; Good Condition and Blessings of the Saints in Zion
• Journey to the North: Folly of Expecting to Sit at Ease in Zion; Progression; The Nations Under God's Control; Prosperity of the Saints; Power of Brigham Young; The Gospel Alphabet
• Result of the Delegation to Congress for the Admission of Utah As a State: Condition of Society in the States; Return of Apostates
• Utility of Correction: Necessity of Living Our Religion; Our Own Character Affecting Posterity; The Saints Blessed Above All Other People; Result of Rebellion Against Authority, Etc.
• Practical Religion: Simplicity; Temporal Salvation; Advantages of Utah As a Settlement for the Saints; False Reports, Etc.
• The Constitution of the United States Guarantees All We Ask: Hollow Gentility; Power of the “Mormon“Leaders; Government Corruption
• Privileges Better Appreciated By Absence: Present Salvation
• Comprehensiveness of True Religion: Sacrifice for the Kingdom of God; The Saints Should Be Superior to the World in All Things; Trust in God, Etc.
• The Fountain of Truth and the Fountain of Lies: The Work of God Cannot Be Impeded; Oneness in the Priesthood; Election; Self-Justification; Spirit of Humility
• Opposition to the Priesthood, Etc.
• Exchange of Feeling and Sentiment Produces Mutual Confidence: Necessity of Cultivating a Childlike Spirit; Devotedness of the Saints in Utah Towards the Work of God; God Will Take Care of His Own Work, Etc.
• Limits of Forbearance: Apostates; Economy; Giving Endowments