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Jedediah M. Grant Biography

Jedediah M. Grant

Jedediah Morgan Grant (February 21, 1816 – December 1, 1856) was a leader and an apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He was member of the First Council of the Seventy from 1845 to 1854 and served in the First Presidency under church president Brigham Young from 1854 to 1856. He is known for his fiery speeches during the Reformation of 1856, earning the nickname "Brigham's Sledgehammer". Grant is the father of Heber J. Grant, who later served as President of the Church.

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If President Young wants my wives I will give them to him without a grumble, and he can take them whenever he likes.

Giving, President, Wife, Wives, Young

The grand reason of the burst of public sentiment in anathemas upon Christ and his disciples, causing his crucifixion, was evidently based upon polygamy, according to the testimony of the philosophers who rose in that age. A belief in the doctrine of a plurality of wives caused the persecution of Jesus and his followers. We might almost think they were 'Mormons. '

Crucifixion, Jesus, Persecution, Polygamy, Thinking, Wife

Br Orson Pratt is in trubble in consequence of his wife, hir feelings are so rought up that he dos not know whether his wife is wrong, or whether Josephs testimony and others are wrong and do lie and he deceived for 12 years or not; his is all but crazy about matters. . . we will not let Br. Orson go away from us he is too good a man to have a woman destroy him.

Consequence, Crazy, Lie, Lying, Men, Rought

Says one brother to another, 'Joseph says all covenants are done away, and none are binding but the new covenants; now suppose Joseph should come and say he wanted your wife, what would you say to that? I would tell him to go to hell. ' This was the spirit of many in the early days of this Church.

Brother, Church, Come, Early, Says, Wife

What would a man of God say, who felt aright, when Joseph asked him for his money? He would say, 'Yes, and I wish I had more to help to build up the Kingdom of God. ' Or if he came and said 'I want your wife?' 'O Yes,' he would say, 'here she is, there are plenty more. '. . . Did the Prophet Joseph want every man's wife he asked for? He did not. . . If such a man of God should come to me and say, 'I want your gold and silver, or your wives,' I should say, 'Here they are, I wish I had more to give you, take all I have got. '

Asked, Came, Give, Giving, Men, Wife

A man that advances in spiritual and in temporal matters at the same time, minding to keep the spiritual first, will not let the temporal lead him; he will not place his heart upon his farm, his horses, or any possession that he has. He will place his desires in heaven, and will anchor his hope in that eternal soil; and his temporal affairs will come up as he advances in the knowledge of God.

Heart, Heaven, Horse, Possession, Same, Spiritual

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