Journal of Discourses

Joseph E. Taylor in the Journal of Discourses

His one sermon in the series, and what it covers.

One sermon by Joseph E. Taylor appears in the Journal of Discourses, in volume 23 (1883).

In his own words

The table below says what his one sermon covers. This is what it sounded like.

We are in a dark land. Our minds are beclouded, the heavens are shut, and the veil can only be lifted by the power of faith. Who possesses it? The veil never has been lifted from the day that God hid himself from Adam in the Garden of Eden; it never has been lifted in any age of the world only by the power of the Priesthood and the gift of faith, and then only for a short time. We are compelled now to exercise the principle of faith. Whence comes it? It is a gift of God; but it needs cherishing; it needs cultivation; it needs nourishing, and it will grow within you and me, if we will cherish it to the extent that it is our privilege, until it will become so mighty within us, that we never can be moved, not even by death staring us in the face.

Joseph E. Taylor, Dependence Upon the Holy Spirit—The Gathering and Its Object—Sacrifices Required of the Saints—The Risk of Rejecting the Testimony of the Truth—Profession and Practice, Pretensions and Principle—Impending Trials and Troubles, Trust in God—Time and Eternity, Body and Spirit—"More Blessed Are They that Believe and Have not Seen"—The Spirit of Truthful Intuition the Safest Guide—Exhortation, Counsel and Instruction, Journal of Discourses, Volume 23

What the sermon covers

Indexed subjects, in order of how often they appear: Testimony, Baptism for the Dead, Eternal Life, Intuition, Missionary Work, Priesthood, Divine Inspiration, Sacrament, Holy Spirit, Revelation, Holy Ghost, Zion.

Where it sits

Volume 23 (1883) holds 43 sermons by 15 speakers, of which 1 is his. John Taylor carries that volume with 11.

The Journal is overwhelmingly the work of a dozen men. The speakers who appear once or twice are the reason the series is worth indexing in full: they are printed at the same length and with the same care as the presidencies, and almost nowhere else.

Every sermon, in order

The complete list as the Journal prints it. Titles are the printed titles, which routinely name four or five unrelated subjects in one line — each one links to the discourse itself at journalofdiscourses.com.