155 years ago today - Aug 15, 1860

[Brigham Young] G.Q. Cannon was giving an account of the new organization under Joseph Smith, the son of the Prophet. B.Y. said ... that Joseph might be a prophet and do a good work, but he never would be leader of this people. David would be the leader of the Church.

[Source: Historians Office Journal, quoted in The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses]

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