Margaret P. Young's Message from President Brigham Young in the Spirit World
Published October 15, 2026 at 5:59 AM
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About three years prior to the publication, Sister Margaret P. Young, working in the Logan Temple, visited Maria Young Dougall. She told Maria she had dreamed of being in the temple and seeing President Brigham Young talking to Sister Richards. Later, Sister Richards relayed a message from President Young for Margaret to give to his daughter, Maria: to be good, humble, and faithful, and she would be great.
In Their Own Words
“The night previous to my leaving Logan I dreamed I was in the temple, and opening the door of the room in which I work, I saw your father, as plain as I ever saw him in life, standing talking to Sister Richards, the lady who officiates with me. I retired for a few moments not wishing to interrupt them, then entered again. Your father had gone, and so Sister Richards said, ‘Sister Margaret, President Young wishes you to deliver a message to his daughter, Maria, as you are going to conference in the morning, he says tell her to be a good girl, not to be lifted up in pride, but be humble and faithful in keeping the commandments of God and she shall be great for I desire her to be great.’”
— Margaret P. Young, as quoted in 'Maria Young Dougall: Our Picture Gallery,' The Young Woman's Journal
Sources & References
The Young Woman's Journal, vol. 2 no. 3 (December 1890). L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University digital collections. https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/YWJ/id/9780 (account extracted verbatim from the collection's page-level OCR; research confidence: high) Full first-person account: The Young Woman's Journal, vol. 2, no. 3 (December 1890), p. 100 https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/YWJ/id/9780 Full first-person account: The Young Woman's Journal, vol. 2, no. 3 (December 1890), p. 100 https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/YWJ/id/9780
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