| Pages | Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 - 7 | June 29, 1856 | Heber C. Kimball | The Saints Should Prepare for Future Emergencies—Evil Spirits—Their Power and Organization—The Chain of the Priesthood—Angels Are Ministering Spirits |
| 7 - 9 | July 24, 1856 | Jedediah M. Grant | A Prayer |
| 9 - 15 | June 29, 1856 | Parley P. Pratt | A Visit, By P. P. Pratt, to the Southern Settlements—The Power of the Priesthood—Union Among the Saints—A Miracle |
| 15 - 20 | August 3, 1856 | Jedediah M. Grant | Why the Saints Rejoice—The Spirit Received Through Laying on of Hands—Cleanliness |
| 20 - 32 | August 17, 1856 | Brigham Young | The Holy Ghost Necessary in Preaching—Faith—Healing the Sick—The Saints' Interests Are One—All of Our Efforts Should Tend to the Upbuilding of the Kingdom of God |
| 33 - 42 | August 31, 1856 | Brigham Young | Testimony to the Divinity of Joseph Smith's Mission—Elders Should Go to Their Missions Without Purse or Scrip—The Lord Deals With the Saints—Jesus Their President—Satan Angry |
| 43 - 45 | September 21, 1856 | Brigham Young | A Call for An Expression of the Condition of the People—Repentance Among the Saints Necessary—Renewing of Covenants |
| 45 - 49 | September 21, 1856 | Heber C. Kimball | Application of the Words of Helaman to the Condition of the Latter-day Saints |
| 49 - 51 | September 21, 1856 | Jedediah M. Grant | Rebuking Iniquity |
| 51 - 57 | September 21, 1856 | Brigham Young | The People of God Disciplined By Trials—Atonement By the Shedding of Blood—Our Heavenly Father—A Privilege Given to All the Married Sisters in Utah |
| 58 - 63 | November 2, 1856 | Brigham Young | Reformation Necessary Among the Saints—Infidel Philosophy |
| 64 - 66 | November 2, 1856 | Heber C. Kimball | Effects of a Murmuring Spirit—Companies on the Plains—Those Who Enter Heaven Have to Pass the Inspection of the First Presidency |
| 66 - 70 | November 2, 1856 | Brigham Young | Counsel Concerning Immigration—Benefits to Be Derived From An Early Start—Crossing the Plains With Handcarts, Etc. |
| 70 - 75 | November 2, 1856 | Jedediah M. Grant | Companies on the Plains—Practicability of Handcarts—The Time for Starting From Missouri River—Reformation, Etc. |
| 75 - 80 | November 9, 1856 | Brigham Young | The Gospel Like a Net Cast Into the Sea—Good and Bad in the Church—Embrace Principles in Your Faith, not Men—Confess Only to Those Against Whom You Have Sinned—Economize the Gifts of God, Etc. |
| 80 - 83 | November 9, 1856 | Heber C. Kimball | Persons Not to Be Baptized Until They Repent and Make Restitution—All Sin to Be Repented of Before Partaking of the Sacrament, Etc. |
| 83 - 87 | November 9, 1856 | Jedediah M. Grant | Hypocrisy Reproved—Family Government, Etc. |
| 88 - 89 | November 9, 1856 | Heber C. Kimball | The Emigrant Saints—Children More Susceptible of Tuition Than Adults |
| 89 - 94 | November 16, 1856 | Brigham Young | Temptation and Trials Necessary to Exaltation—If the Saints Perform Their Obligations, the Lord Will not Fail in His—Handcart Emigration Preferable to that By Ox-Teams |
| 94 - 100 | October 6, 1856 | Wilford Woodruff | The Facilities Afforded By the Handcart Movement for the Gathering of Israel—The Saints Specially Opposed By the Devil in Any New Enterprise—Reformation |
| 101 - 105 | September 28, 1856 | Brigham Young | The Handcart Emigration—Opinions of the Emigrants Concerning It—Females Endure the Journey Better Than Males, Etc. |
| 105 - 110 | September 28, 1856 | Heber C. Kimball | Emigration—The Saints Warned to Repent or Judgments Will Come Upon Them |
| 111 - 111 | November 9, 1856 | Brigham Young | The Emigrating Saints Were Prompted By The Spirit of God |
| 112 - 114 | October 5, 1856 | Brigham Young | Discord at Meetings Rebuked—A Text for Speakers at the Conference—Subject for the People—A Call for Mules, Horses, Wagons, Teamsters, Flour, Etc. |
| 114 - 119 | October 5, 1856 | Franklin D. Richards | The Handcart Enterprise—Returning Missionaries—Exhortation to the Saints to Rescue the Brethren and Sisters on the Plains, Etc. |
| 119 - 122 | October 5, 1856 | Heber C. Kimball | God is Our Father; Joseph Smith His Representative on the Earth; Brigham Young Joseph's Legal Successor—Call for Teams to Meet the Emigrants |
| 122 - 129 | October 26, 1856 | Jedediah M. Grant | Those Who Are in Darkness Cannot Discern the Light—Exhortations to Male and Female to Seek After the Light of the Holy Ghost—Women Who Leave Their Husbands, Etc. |
| 129 - 134 | December 5, 1856 | Brigham Young | On the Death of President Jedediah M. Grant |
| 135 - 138 | December 4, 1856 | Heber C. Kimball | Remarks at the Funeral of President Jedediah M. Grant |
| 138 - 145 | December 21, 1856 | Heber C. Kimball | Reformation—A Test at Hand to Prove the Saints |
| 146 - 150 | December 21, 1856 | Wilford Woodruff | The People Asleep—Those Holding the Priesthood Must Magnify Their Callings or Be Removed—The Saints to Be Tried Even Unto Death |
| 150 - 153 | October 12, 1856 | Jedediah M. Grant | Overcome the Powers of Darkness By Prayer—Spiritual Things First in Importance—Cleanliness |
| 154 - 159 | January 4, 1857 | Lorenzo Snow | The Saints Have not Magnified Their Calling As Saviors of the Living and the Dead—Oneness—Practical Repentance |
| 159 - 164 | January 11, 1857 | Franklin D. Richards | Offers of Mercy—The Great Dispensation in Which We Live |
| 164 - 181 | January 11, 1857 | Heber C. Kimball | The Body of Christ—Parable of the Vine—A Wild Enthusiastic Spirit not of God—The Saints Should not Unwisely Expose Each Others' Follies |
| 181 - 187 | January 18, 1857 | Lorenzo Snow | Man Must Use His Energies and Cultivate the Gifts of God—Necessity of Following Counsel—Reformation Must Be Intrinsic and not a Matter of Excitement |
| 188 - 189 | October 2, 1856 | Jedediah M. Grant | Exhortation to Cleanliness—Many of the Saints Spiritually Dead |
| 189 - 193 | January 25, 1857 | Wilford Woodruff | Necessity of Obeying the Instructions and Revelations Given—The Importance of Obtaining the Holy Ghost—The Labors of the Saints Are for Their Own Salvation, and not to Enrich the Lord |
| 194 - 206 | February 1, 1857 | Brigham Young | Prophets Weep Because of the Sins of the People—One Generation Should Improve Upon the Experience of Another—Many Set Their Hearts on Perishable Things—Provisions Are Made for the Exaltation of All—The Spirit Should Rule the Flesh—Limited Knowledge of Man—Phenomenon of Forgetfulness—Natural Philosophy—Emigration |
| 207 - 213 | February 1, 1857 | Heber C. Kimball | The Presidency—The Continuance of the Head With the Body Depends on the Faithfulness of the Members—Men When They Die Cannot Take Their Earthly Possessions With Them—Elders Going on Missions With Handcarts—The Vineyard, a Parable |
| 213 - 215 | December 21, 1856 | Orson Hyde | A Dream—Wheat and the Chaff—Way of Escape From Tribulation—Necessity of Consecration |
| 215 - 221 | February 8, 1857 | Brigham Young | To Know God is Eternal Life—God the Father of Our Spirits and Bodies—Things Created Spiritually First—Atonement By the Shedding of Blood |
| 221 - 226 | February 8, 1857 | Heber C. Kimball | The Ax that is Laid at the Root of the Tree—Regeneration—Products of Polygamy, a Numerous Offspring, Etc. |
| 227 - 233 | February 22, 1857 | Wilford Woodruff | Intelligence Comes From God—Seek First the Kingdom of God—Great Changes to Take Place on the Earth—Israel of the Last Days—Why the Jews Cannot Be Converted |
| 234 - 238 | February 22, 1857 | Daniel H. Wells | The Parable of the Sower—The Priesthood Reaches Behind the veil—How Intolerable It Will Be for Those Who Apostatize—Popularity of Governor Young Compared With that of the Rulers of the Nations—The Kingdoms of this World, Etc. |
| 238 - 247 | March 1, 1857 | Lorenzo Snow | Union of the Saints—The World is Trained to Be Selfish—We Are Dependent Upon Christ and Each Other—Individual Exertion Necessary to Accomplish the Purposes of God |
| 247 - 252 | March 1, 1857 | Heber C. Kimball | Obedience Produces Confidence—Consecration—Concentration of Interests—Etc. |
| 253 - 257 | March 1, 1857 | Daniel H. Wells | Misapplication of the Term Sacrifice—The Saints Are Gainers By the Work of God—Resistance of Evil—Degeneracy—The Way of Regeneration—How to Treat Our Wives |
| 257 - 263 | Orson Hyde | Man the Head of Woman—Kingdom of God—The Seed of Christ—Polygamy—Society in Utah | |
| 264 - 272 | March 8, 1857 | Brigham Young | Necessity for Reformation a Disgrace—Intelligence a Gift, Increased By Imparting—Spirit of God—Variety in Spiritual As Well As in Natural Organizations—God the Father of the Spirits of All Mankind—Etc. |
| 273 - 279 | January 25, 1857 | Heber C. Kimball | Departed Spirits Continue With the Dispositions They Possessed on Earth—The Order and Necessary Unity of the Priesthood Illustrated—Counsel to the Married |
| 279 - 291 | March 15, 1857 | Brigham Young | Our Relatives, Those Who Do the Will of God—The Elders Should Be As Fathers and Shepherds in Israel, and not As Masters—Self-Confidence, and the Way to Obtain It—The Prophet Joseph not Yet Resurrected—Preaching to the Spirits in Prison, Etc. |
| 292 - 295 | March 15, 1857 | Heber C. Kimball | The “Deseret News,” Its Value—Worth and Virtue of Sacred Relics—Resurrection—Confidence in Our Leaders |
| 295 - 302 | March 29, 1857 | Brigham Young | He that Loveth Not His Brother Loveth Not God—If We Have Not Confidence in Our Leaders We Shall Not Have It in a Higher Power—The Church Holds the Keys of Salvation—The Providences of God to the Saints |
| 302 - 308 | April 6, 1857 | Brigham Young | Object of the Express Carrying Company—Why Success Attends the Ministerial Labors of Some Elders, and Not Those of Others—Counsel to Store Up Grain Enough to Last Seven Years |
| 308 - 311 | April 6, 1857 | Daniel H. Wells | Indebtedness to the P. E. Fund—Public Works—True Prosperity—Dependence on the Lord—Self-Consecration |
| 312 - 320 | April 6, 1857 | Brigham Young | The Power and Importance of Economy—Domestic Extravagance and Mismanagement, With Their Bad Results |
| 320 - 323 | April 8, 1857 | Wilford Woodruff | The Latter-Day Work—Necessity of An Inspired Leader to Stand at the Head of Israel, Etc., and to Dictate in Spiritual and Temporal Affairs |
| 323 - 327 | May 31, 1857 | Brigham Young | Journey to the North—Unanimity and Peaceful Order of the Company—Geographical Character of the Country Traversed—Good Condition and Blessings of the Saints in Zion |
| 328 - 331 | May 31, 1857 | Heber C. Kimball | Journey to the North—Folly of Expecting to Sit at Ease in Zion—Progression—The Nations Under God's Control—Prosperity of the Saints—Power of Brigham Young—The Gospel Alphabet |
| 331 - 333 | May 31, 1857 | George A. Smith | Result of the Delegation to Congress for the Admission of Utah As a State—Condition of Society in the States—Return of Apostates |
| 334 - 340 | June 7, 1857 | Heber C. Kimball | Utility of Correction—Necessity of Living Our Religion—Our Own Character Affecting Posterity—The Saints Blessed Above All Other People—Result of Rebellion Against Authority, Etc. |
| 341 - 346 | June 7, 1857 | Brigham Young | Practical Religion—Simplicity—Temporal Salvation—Advantages of Utah As a Settlement for the Saints—False Reports, Etc. |
| 347 - 352 | June 7, 1857 | Brigham Young | The Constitution of the United States Guarantees All We Ask—Hollow Gentility—Power of the “Mormon“Leaders—Government Corruption |
| 353 - 354 | June 14, 1857 | Charles C. Rich | Privileges Better Appreciated By Absence—Present Salvation |
| 354 - 360 | June 14, 1857 | Brigham Young | Comprehensiveness of True Religion—Sacrifice for the Kingdom of God—The Saints Should Be Superior to the World in All Things—Trust in God, Etc. |
| 360 - 365 | April 19, 1857 | Heber C. Kimball | The Fountain of Truth and the Fountain of Lies—The Work of God Cannot Be Impeded—Oneness in the Priesthood—Election—Self-Justification—Spirit of Humility |
| 366 - 367 | June 21, 1857 | Heber C. Kimball | Opposition to the Priesthood, Etc. |
| 367 - 374 | June 28, 1857 | Brigham Young | Exchange of Feeling and Sentiment Produces Mutual Confidence—Necessity of Cultivating a Childlike Spirit—Devotedness of the Saints in Utah Towards the Work of God—God Will Take Care of His Own Work, Etc. |
| 374 - 376 | August 16, 1857 | Heber C. Kimball | Limits of Forbearance—Apostates—Economy—Giving Endowments |