Journal of Discourses

Every speaker in the Journal of Discourses

All 53 men, from 388 sermons down to one — each with a page listing everything he preached.

Fifty-three men preach in the twenty-six volumes. The distribution is extremely lopsided: the top twelve account for 1232 of the 1,426 sermons — 86% of the series — while 30 men appear four times or fewer.

That tail is the reason the series is worth indexing in full. The men who appear once are printed at the same length and with the same care as the presidencies, and for several of them this is the only published record of their preaching anywhere. Every one has a page, listing every sermon he gave, what he returned to, and where each discourse sits.

All 53, by number of sermons

• Brigham Young 388
• John Taylor 163
• Orson Pratt 127
• Heber C. Kimball 111
• George Q. Cannon 111
• George A. Smith 80
• Wilford Woodruff 65
• Orson Hyde 49
• Daniel H. Wells 47
• Erastus Snow 37
• Joseph F. Smith 30
• Lorenzo Snow 24
• Charles W. Penrose 21
• Franklin D. Richards 20
• Jedediah M. Grant 20
• Amasa M. Lyman 16
• Parley P. Pratt 15
• Ezra T. Benson 12
• Charles C. Rich 11
• Moses Thatcher 9
• Henry W. Naisbitt 8
• Brigham Young, Jr 7
• George G. Bywater 5
• John Young 4
• Joseph Young 4
• John Morgan 4
• Joseph Smith 3
• Lorenzo D. Young 3
• John H. Smith 3
• George Teasdale 3
• John Nicholson 2
• Francis M. Lyman 2
• Orson F. Whitney 2
• Z. Snow 1
• Edward Hunter 1
• Alfred Cordon 1
• George B. Wallace 1
• Isaac Morley 1
• Daniel Spencer 1
• Elias Smith 1
• Willard Richards 1
• David McKenzie 1
• William C. Dunbar 1
• Albert Carrington 1
• L. W. Hardy 1
• Angus M. Cannon 1
• C. W. Stayner 1
• Aurelius Miner 1
• Joseph E. Taylor 1
• B. H. Roberts 1
• John Q. Cannon 1
• George Reynolds 1
• Junius F. Wells 1