Brigham Young: Sermon on Mormon Governance

Once the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) community became established in Utah, Brigham Young, the church’s second president, ordered the publication of the Journal of Discourses, which collected the public speeches of Mormon leaders. The vast majority of its contents during his lifetime are by Young, among them his 1859 Sermon on Mormon Governance, in which Young characterizes the Mormon political ideal—a theocratic government based on the rule of God.