Summary
Brigham Young speaks for himself: John A. Widtsoe’s selection from his sermons of 1851 to 1877 — the gospel, God, agency, the family, work, temples and Zion — arranged by subject, with scripture and everyone he quotes in their own voices.
The book
- Author
- Brigham Young, selected and arranged by John A. Widtsoe
- Date of the work
- Sermons 1851–77; selected 1925
- Edition recorded
- Second edition, February 1926 (Salt Lake City); first published 1925
- Listening time
- 23 h 59 min
- Chapters
- 44
Where this text comes from
Almost all of these discourses were first published in the Journal of Discourses. Widtsoe selected and arranged them in 1925; the publishers’ note in the second edition (dated February 15, 1926) says it is the same as the first apart from minor letter corrections. Each excerpt’s Journal of Discourses volume and page appears as a small number you can tap; they are not read.
Text produced by Tom Nysetvold for the Mormon Texts Project for Project Gutenberg (released September 20, 2024). The book’s pictures and index are not included. Printed chapter 36 is recorded as two chapters, so chapters after it are numbered one higher than in the printed book.
Public domain
Public domain, free to share. The text of Discourses of Brigham Young is in the public domain in the United States. It was first published in 1925, and the edition recorded here appeared in 1926. Works published before 1931 are out of copyright there.
This site claims no copyright or trademark in the text. It uses no logos, trademarks or modern artwork of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or anyone else, and the cover picture is also in the public domain. Names such as “Book of Mormon” or the Church’s own name appear only to identify the book and its subject, and belong to their owners.
This is an independent project, not produced, sponsored or endorsed by the Church. The voices are AI-generated.