"Interesting Quotes from Various Mormon Authorities"

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Various comments by authorities on the negro race.

Joseph Fielding Smith: “That negro race, for instance, have been placed under restrictions because of their attitude in the world of spirits, few will doubt. It cannot be looked upon as just that they should be deprived of the power of the Priesthood without it being a punishment for some act, or acts, performed before they were born.” (The Way to Perfection, p. 43).

OLAADEGBU:
Various comments by authorities on the negro race.

Joseph Fielding Smith: “That negro race, for instance, have been placed under restrictions because of their attitude in the world of spirits, few will doubt. It cannot be looked upon as just that they should be deprived of the power of the Priesthood without it being a punishment for some act, or acts, performed before they were born.” (The Way to Perfection, p. 43).

“Ham, through Egyptus, continued the curse which was placed upon the seed of Cain. Because of that curse this dark race was separated and isolated from all the rest of Adam’s posterity before the flood, and since that time the same condition has continued, and they have been ‘despised among all people.’ This doctrine did not originate with President Brigham Young but was taught by the Prophet Joseph Smith . . . we all know it is due to his teachings that the negro today is barred from the Priesthood.” (The Way to Perfection, p. 110-111).

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“Ham, through Egyptus, continued the curse which was placed upon the seed of Cain. Because of that curse this dark race was separated and isolated from all the rest of Adam’s posterity before the flood, and since that time the same condition has continued, and they have been ‘despised among all people.’ This doctrine did not originate with President Brigham Young but was taught by the Prophet Joseph Smith . . . we all know it is due to his teachings that the negro today is barred from the Priesthood.” (The Way to Perfection, p. 110-111).

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John Taylor: " . . . after the flood we are told that the curse that had been pronounced upon Cain was continued through Ham’s wife, as he had married a wife of that seed. And why did it pass through the flood? Because it was necessary that the devil should have a representation a upon a the earth as well as God . . . " (Journal of Discourses, vol. 22, p. 304).

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John Taylor: " . . . after the flood we are told that the curse that had been pronounced upon Cain was continued through Ham’s wife, as he had married a wife of that seed. And why did it pass through the flood? Because it was necessary that the devil should have a representation a upon a the earth as well as God . . . " (Journal of Discourses, vol. 22, p. 304).

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"When he (Satan) destroyed the inhabitants of the antediluvian worlds, he suffered a descendant of Cain to come through the flood in order that he might be properly represented upon the earth," (Journal of Discourses, vol. 23, p. 336).