Show COULD HAVE HAD 1 THE PRESIDENCY 5 I How John W Young Missed High Church Office 4 IS THE OLDEST APOSTLE I BUT REFUSED TO EWER ENTER EN THE THES I S QUORUM t S 5 W YOUNG TOUNG preferred a life le of ot JOHN I railroad building to a a life of oC reli religious rel J work That is the only rea reason reason son sn he was not ordained president of o othe the Mormon church the other day da in instead Instead stead stand of oC Joseph F 1 Smith There are very ver few Cew people in Utah even among the who know this to b le e a fact or who are sufficiently familiar amlar with wih Mr Youngs connection cOlne ton f with wih the church to realize that tat it sj i i true trul and that he still sun holds some soe claim to an apostleship As A everybody understands John W was the favorite I son of President Brigham Young He inherited a a large portion porton of oC his fathers I keen foresight and business t tas as well vell wel as enthusiasm and aggressive aggressiveness ness ness His father had him marked marke mark fer I president of ot the te church S I This was demonstrated when in 1855 John W tv V Young was ordained an apos abos apostle n os ost tie tle t by b Brigham Young Heber C Kim Kimball Kimbal Kimball ball bal and M l Grant Grant the then first frt presidency of the church At sit the time there was wa no vacancy in the quo quorum t rum rm of the twelve John W was to await his turn Meanwhile he was vas chosen a a special counselor one of five to President Young His advice be he became 1 came so valuable to the head of or the church that tat as time rolled on and va vu vacancies cancle existed In the quorum John Joen JO W V was not made a member but still re retaining taming his apostleship became a 1 u on ber of or the first presidency All AU hi hl bile life he had shown a marked tendency to towards wards ards big business enterprises but at atthe atthe atthe the same time was considered a n devout religionist At last last it i is said he tie le ex ox expressed x pressed a preference to remain out t of the quorum altogether At east eat he lie lieras was ras not made mae a member of oC the body but went in for building up the country as an ai a layman He built buit railroads in all al directions leaving the state frequently and returning with capital l to t push along some new scheme heme He his apostleship but never has been a member of the quorum It I was not until 1863 eight years after r rJohn John W Young was ordained that his lila brother Brigham Young was ordained The latter was made a member cf ct the quorum at the time of or his ordination which was shortly shorty after Joseph Joseoh F P FSmith Smith had been ordained Brigham Young went Into the quorum first but I Joseph F Smith was ordained head hEad Joseph F Smith was ordained ahead I of him and by the right of this prior ordination he is now president John fore either of or them and if he ho had ever er entered the quorum of ot o twelve apostles he would now be the president or of the church It t Is evident from the history of or the case ease that an apostle does not nee oa a arno rily rno become a a member of the quorum It I is evident too that John W V Young Young is still sti after these long years fi le leto to membership in the quorum as is no law in the church save that cf f deposition which would exclude hIm lum Whether or not he ever eer will wU enter he she quorum Is of course a question Queston to be bl I settled by the quorum The of opinion among his friends is that t t he heis heIs heIs is not looking for ecclesiastical honors |