Fifth president of the church, remembered for reviving the observance of tithing and for the couplet on the nature of God and man.
24 sermons by Lorenzo Snow appear in the Journal of Discourses — 1.7% of the whole series — printed across 12 volumes, 1857 to 1886. That makes him the 12th most-printed speaker in the Journal.
Sermons by Lorenzo Snow, per volume
Twelve years before the office
His last sermon in the Journal is in volume 26, printed in 1886. He became president of the church in 1898, twelve years after the series ended, so nothing on this page is the voice of the man remembered for rescuing church finances by preaching tithing through the settlements in 1899.
His longest discourse here is on the United Order, the cooperative economic order he ran at Brigham City more successfully and for longer than almost anyone else who tried it.
In his own words
The tables below say what Lorenzo Snow preached about. This is what it sounded like.
When one goes into cooperation with proper spirit and proper views, to superintend or operate in any of its departments, he has a lawful claim to the Spirit of inspiration, to aid him in his calling. We read that Jacob, through his honesty of purpose, fair-dealing, and freedom from selfishness, was assisted by an holy Angel with information how to increase and multiply his flocks. It is far better to build up the kingdom of God, in its temporal interests, by the Spirit of God and the wisdom of God, than by the spirit of man and the wisdom of man; on the latter principle we shall always fail, but on the former the results will always be successful.
Every speaker in the Journal preaches on faith, repentance and the gathering. These are the subjects Lorenzo Snow raised more often than the Journal does as a whole — the ones that distinguish his preaching from the rest of the series.
Subjects raised more often than the Journal average
Subject
Sermons
Share of his sermons
vs. Journal average
Sacrifice
11
46%
19.8×
Brigham City
3
12%
17.8×
Fasting
3
12%
12.7×
Center Stake of Zion
4
17%
11.9×
Law of Consecration
3
12%
11.9×
Ogden
3
12%
10.5×
Peter
3
12%
10.5×
Moses
7
29%
5.9×
The comparison is against the rate for all 1,426 sermons in the Journal, so a figure of 3× means the subject appears three times as often in his sermons as in the series overall.
Every sermon, in order
The complete list as the Journal prints them. 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.