PRESIDENT [of the Quorum of Twelve] LORENZO SNOW said ... the Savior would come to the temple in Missouri and lay his hands on Joseph and the brethren with him were pretty well supplied with Apostles and that he would not call any more of the Apostles to pass away from this life unless they wished to go. ...
Heber J. Grant, said that at the time that his brother George Smith Grant was accidentally killed that the impression came that his father had the whisperings of the spirit to him at the time he was in Arizona and wondering to himself while riding along in the Navajo reservation why he should be called as an Apostle. These whisperings were to the effect that his father Jedediah M. Grant and the Prophet Joseph to whom his mother had been sealed had asked that he be appointed to the position....
[President Woodruff] Referring to the Manifesto he said that he wished to say that the Lord was with us and he testified in the name of Israel's God that the heavens were not closed over our heads and the Lord had not left us to ourselves. If it had not been for the Manifesto all the work of the living and the dead in our temples would have to stop. Would not have taken the stand he did had he not been moved on by the inspiration of God. The Lord God will hold this Nation responsible for the persecutions the saints have had to pass through. He will et open doors that the principle of plural marriage can and will be restored.... The Presidency and Apostles should remain on the earth until the coming of the Son of God. ...
[Source: The Diaries of Heber J. Grant, 1880-1945, Abridged, Digital Edition Salt Lake City, Utah, 2015]
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