( See Joseph Smith's King Follett discourse.

In 1844, Smith elaborated on this idea in his famous King Follett discourse:

" And finally, Smith taught in his 1844 King Follett discourse that God was once a man " like one of us ".

The discourse was presented to a congregation of probably more than twenty thousand Latter-day Saints at a general conference held shortly after the funeral service of Elder King Follett, who had died on March 9, 1844 of accidental injuries.

* Biography of King Follett, The Joseph Smith Papers ( accessed December 28, 2011 )

* King Follett discourse

* Smith Jr., Joseph, King Follett Discourse, April 7, 1844, published in Times and Seasons 5 ( August 15, 1844 ): 612-17, and reprinted in the History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, edited by B. H. Roberts, 2d ed.

The primary source for this theology is the sermon he delivered at the funeral of King Follett ( commonly called the King Follett Discourse ).

Lorenzo Snow succinctly summarized another portion of the doctrine explained in the King Follett Discourse using a couplet:

The publication was the first to include such significant Latter Day Saint documents as The Wentworth Letter, a construction of the King Follett Discourse, the Book of Abraham ( which was later canonized in 1880 by the LDS Church as part of their Pearl of Great Price ), the personal history of Joseph Smith, Jr., and the announcement of the assassination of Joseph and Hyrum Smith.

* Animators: Raoul Barré, Frank Moser, Leon A. Searl, Bert Green ( 1916-18 ), Bill Nolan ( 1916-18 ), Edward Grinham, Ben Sharpsteen, Jack King ( 1920-21 ), Will Powers, Walter Lantz, John Foster, George ( Vernon ) Stallings ( 1916-18 ), F. M. Follett, Leighton Budd, Hal Coffman, Grim Natwick ( 1916-18 ), Burton Gillett, Isadore Klein ( 1916-18 ), Earl Klein ( 1917-17 ), Sid Marcus ( 1916-17 ), Tom Norton ( 1916-18 ), Al Rose ( 1916-17 ), George Rufle ( c. 1916 )

Joseph Smith, the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, said in the King Follett discourse:

His notes were one of four sources used to reconstruct a famous sermon by Smith known as the King Follett Discourse.

In Mahābhārata, the ancient epic of India, comes a discourse where the wise minister Vidura advices the King Yuddhiśhṭhira thus, “ Listening to wise scriptures, austerity, sacrifice, respectful faith, social welfare, forgiveness, purity of intent, compassion, truth and self-control-are the ten wealth of character ( self ).

Abinadi is arrested and brought before King Noah where he gives what is considered a very important discourse in the Book of Mormon ( chapters 12-16 ).

The term ' Whig ' entered English political discourse during the Exclusion Bill crisis of 1678 – 1681 when there was controversy about whether or not King Charles II's brother, James, should be allowed to succeed to the throne on Charles's death.

The Buechner Institute sponsors convocations on most Mondays at 10: 30 a. m. in Memorial Chapel on the campus of King College that feature speakers from a variety of backgrounds who examine the ways in which faith informs art and public life and cultivate conversation about what faith has to do with books, politics, social discourse, music, visual arts, and more.

Wang refers to the account of King Wu's victory over the Shang Dynasty in the Chinese Book of Songs as the " Weniad " ( a name that parallels The Iliad ), seeing it as part of a greater narrative discourse in China that extols the virtues of wén over more military interests.

The King sent his own physician to treat Coligny and even visited him, but the queen mother prevented all private discourse between them.

The discourse which Coligny, leader of the Huguenots, pronounced against les Guises in the Assembly of the notables at Fontainebleau ( August, 1560 ), did not influence King Francis II in the least, but resulted rather in the imprisonment of Condé, at Charles's behest.

Marulić also wrote the Evanglistarium, a systematic discourse on ethical principles that he managed to publish in 1516 and in 1517 – the Davidiad a religious epic which fused Biblical motifs and antique, Virgilian poetics in 14 books, the most important being the story on the life of the Bilbical King David.

The origin of the New York Hospital can be traced to the commencement address of Dr. Samuel Bard, Professor of the “ Practice of Medicine ”, delivered to the first two medical doctors to graduate from King ’ s College ( Now Columbia College, Columbia University ) in 1769 titled “ A discourse upon the duties of a physician, with some sentiments on the usefulness and necessity of a public hospital .” Apparently city leaders also listening to this address were impressed enough to pledge one thousand pounds sterling.

Dr. Peter Middleton reported on the progress with furthering this idea in another address to King ’ s College on November 3, 1769, stating “ The necessity and usefulness of a public infirmary has so warmly and pathetically set forth in a discourse delivered by Dr. Samuel Bard … that his Excellency, Sir Henry Moore immediately set on foot a subscription for that purpose to which himself and most of the gentlemen present liberally contributed .” Soon thereafter the new Governor of the Colony, John, the Earl of Dunmore through the interposition of Lieutenant Governor Cadwallader-Colden ” started a fund for the establishment of such a hospital.

To him, scholars and readers are indebted for the record of two documents of importance — a letter from the Byzantine Emperor John I Tzimisces, to King Ashot III Bagratuni and a discourse delivered in the cathedral of Hagia Sophia, Constantinople, in the presence of the Emperor Constantine X Ducas by Gagik II, the exiled Bagratuni king, concerning the doctrinal divergence between the Greek and Armenian churches.

The account of King Noah is contained in Mosiah 11-19, including an extended discourse by Abinadi in Mosiah 13-16.

The French prelate Bossuet made a classic statement of the doctrine of divine right in a sermon preached before King Louis XIV:

* November 5 – Bishop Lancelot Andrewes preaches the annual Gunpowder Treason sermon before King James I of England at Whitehall ( both were intended victims ).

Knox returned to London in order to deliver a sermon before the King and the Court during Lent and he again refused to take the assigned post.

After a pointed sermon from the incumbent rector, Thomas Rotherham was compelled to give his support and effectively re-founded it in 1478, with a new charter from King Edward IV.

*" Derashah ", sermon delivered in the presence of the King of Castile

He confirmed in his sermon the true doctrine taught in King Edward's time, and exhorted the people to beware of the pestilence of popery, idolatry, and superstition.

When it was expected, three months later, that a favourable result would attend the negotiations at Oxford, Fuller preached a sermon at Westminster Abbey, on 27 March 1643, on the anniversary of Charles I's accession, on the text, " Yea, let him take all, so my Lord the King return in peace.

Thomas Becket in exile, chose Vézelay for his Whitsunday sermon in 1166, announcing the excommunication of the main supporters of his English King, Henry II, and threatening the King with excommunication too.

It was from Washington National Cathedral's Canterbury Pulpit that the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered the final Sunday sermon of his life, just a few days before his assassination.

Bishop John Williams of Lincoln preached the sermon, observing, " King Solomon died in Peace, when he had lived about sixty years ... and so you know did King James ".

" This sermon was published under the title " Another King.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. recited the words from " We Shall Overcome " in his final sermon delivered on in Memphis on Sunday March 31, 1968, before his assassination.

He became a favorite preacher in Paris, and was Lent preacher at court in 1781, when King Louis XVI said of his sermon: " If the abbé had said only a few words on religion, he would have discussed every possible subject.

On 26 June 1483, his father became King of England and Lord of Ireland, following a sermon that was preached outside St Paul's Cathedral which declared Edward IV's children bastards and Richard the rightful king.

At the first fête de la Fédération in 1790, Talleyrand performed a Mass, Lafayette addressed the crowd, and King Louis XVI gave a secular sermon.

James Bevel, an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ( SNCC ) and an associate of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave a sermon in Ruleville, Mississippi and followed it with an appeal to those assembled to register to vote.

Reportedly, he was to give a sermon before James I and was so entertained playing with a ring the King gave him that he forgot the sermon altogether.

King preached a sermon on 25 November 1621.