078 A Young Apostle Questions Succession By Seniority

Church History Matters

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🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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From the history we’ve covered in this series so far, we know that the succession plan of having the most senior apostle become the next Church president took time to develop and wasn’t fully fleshed out in Joseph Smith’s lifetime. In fact, it was during the decades of President Brigham Young’s presidency that this plan was ultimately finalized … well, mostly. It turns out that prior to President John Taylor’s death, there was one young apostle who challenged this plan of succession one last time. In this episode of Church History Matters we walk through this history and talk about how apostle Wilford Woodruff settled this issue once and for all. We’ll also talk about the sacred experience Lorenzo Snow had after Wilford Woodruff’s passing which established the pattern we follow today of reorganizing the First Presidency immediately after a Church president’s death. For show notes and transcript for this and other episodes go to https://doctrineandcovenantscentral.org/church-history-matters-podcast/

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0:00.0	From the history we've covered in this series so far, we know that the succession plan of having the most senior apostle become the next church president took time to develop
0:14.8	and wasn't fully fleshed out in Joseph Smith's lifetime. In fact it was during the
0:19.1	decades of President Brigham Young's presidency that this plan was ultimately finalized.
0:24.0	Well, mostly.
0:26.0	It turns out that prior to President John Taylor's death,
0:29.0	there was one young apostle who challenged this plan of succession one last time.
0:35.2	In today's episode of Church History Matters, we walk through this history and talk about
0:39.6	how Apostle Wilford Woodruff settled this issue once and for all.
0:44.0	We'll also talk about the pivotal sacred experience Lorenzo Snow had following
0:49.0	Wilford Woodruff's passing, which established the pattern we follow today of reorganizing the first presidency immediately after a church president's death.
0:58.0	I'm Scott Woodward and my co-host is Casey Griffiths and today Casey and I dive into our sixth episode in this
1:04.3	series about succession in the presidency.
1:08.8	Hello Casey. Hello once again Scott here we are we made it to yet another episode yet another
1:16.5	episode in a series that this is my jam can I just say that I like church government. I'm kind of like a policy wonk when it comes to stuff like this.
1:27.5	Is that a technical term, policy wonk? It's a technical term. It's like one of those nerdy guys who you know you see walking around the
1:34.8	White House that's like actually this is the historical precedent for this and this and
1:38.6	this and this. Actually yeah so I just like this stuff. Your policy wonkiness is contagious.
1:45.8	Yeah, and I want to point out here too that we are stealing from some of the best policy
1:50.0	wunks in the history of the church. There's a great book if you can find it by Reed Durham called
1:55.5	Succession in the presidency. That's just awesome. It's like old school but it's really
2:00.5	awesome. We're also going from a guy named Ed Lyman who wrote a great
2:04.4	article called Succession by Seniority, it's in the Journal of Mormon History.
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