Bless Brigham Young

DESCRIPTION: "'Bless Brigham Young,' we children pray; 'The chosen Twelve in what they say, The elders, priests, and teachers, too; Their labors bless in all they do." The children ask for the Spirit of God to rest on them and to understand the Lord's will
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1946 (Fife/Fife-SaintsOfSageAndSaddle)
KEYWORDS: religious children | Mormons Brigham Young
FOUND IN: US(Ro)
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Cheney-MormonSongs, p. 98, "Bless Brigham Young" (1 text, 1 tune)
Fife/Fife-SaintsOfSageAndSaddle, p. 326, "Bless Brigham Young" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #10843
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Brigham Young (I)" (character of Brigham Young) and references there
NOTES [148 words]: For background on Brigham Young, and the many songs about him, see the notes to "Brigham Young (I)." "The Twelve" might be several things. According to W. Paul Reeve and Ardis E. Parshall, editors, Mormonism: A Historical Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2010, p. 227, a "stake" (a group of congregations with something on the order of 5000 members) will have a stake president and a twelve member High Council. Higher up the ladder is the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, the church's second highest governing body after the First Presidency; its members are appointed for life (Reeve/Parshall, p. 228). Thus a reference to Brigham Young and the Twelve, in Young's time, was a reference to the supreme leaders of the Saints.
Reeve/Parshall, p, 229, add, "The 15 members of the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve are revered by Latter-day Saints a living witnesses of Jesus Christ. - RBW
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File: ChMS098

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