Mormon History, Mar 22, 1847 (Evening)

[Brigham Young Sermon] With regard to blessing children by the church from a history on the earth at first no record kept. Joseph had a revelation to keep a record on the matter and it is right for the bishop to record it. the father has a right to bless as a patriarch in his own family - but when an elder lays his hands on a child to bless is not a patriarchal blessing, the blessing has hold on them till the years of accountability, every mans name ought to be handed in at the conference. If my child is blessed if I can have it recorded I can. -- Winter Quarters, Nebraska [Thomas Bullock Minutes, LJA; Thomas Bullock—LDS Church Reporter, 1844-56.C, Archives, Church History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah.; GCM, Archives, Church History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah..; Leonard J. Arrington Papers, Special Collections, Merrill-Cazier Library, Utah State University, Logan.. (A reference reading LJA 12-55-5, 10, means LJA Series 12, Box 55, Folder 5, page 10.) 9-12-3, 21]

[The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009)]
[source: The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009)]

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