“We understand that when God made man in his own image and pronounced him very good, that he made him white. We have no record of any of God’s favored servants being of a black race. All of His prophets and apostles belonged to the most handsome race on the face of the earth …”

Juvenile Instructor – Volume 3, No. 20 (Salt Lake City, UT: George Q. Cannon, 15 October 1868), 157.