Blessing to William Cahoon, 1 March 1835
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Blessing to William Cahoon, 1 March 1835
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JS and others, Blessing, to , , Geauga Co., OH, 1 Mar. 1835. Featured version copied [not before 25 Feb. 1836] in Minute Book 1, p. 182; handwriting of ; CHL. For more complete source information, see the source note for Minute Book 1.
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See Historical Introduction to Minutes, Discourse, and Blessings, 1 March 1835.
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Blessing to William Cahoon, 1 March 1835
Minute Book 1
Page 182
We set you apart to be one of the . You are young and we pray the Lord to guard you against the follies of youth. That you may be humble and conquer all your evil propensities incident to youth. But if you do not forsake all evil when you go forth among the nations, you shall never return, It is with you death or victory. You shall go to many nations and kingdoms, but you must begin from this very hour to reform. If you do you shall do great good and bring [to] pass much righteousness, because you have desired it. You shall become a polished shaft, and rejoice amidst many converts & return with much joy to your native land. We seal blessings upon you upon condition of your faithfulness— Amen. [p. 182]
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Footnotes
Footnotes
- [1]
William Cahoon later wrote that his ordination occurred on 28 February 1835, not 1 March. (Cahoon, Autobiography, 44.)
Cahoon, William F. Autobiography, 1878. Microfilm. CHL. MS 8433.
- [2]
Cahoon, who was twenty-one at this time, had been accused in October 1831 of “offering abuse” to one of Newel K. and Elizabeth Smith Whitney’s children. (Minutes, 21 Oct. 1831.)
- [3]
See Revelation, 1 Aug. 1831 [D&C 58:27].
- [4]
See Isaiah 49:2; and Book of Mormon, 1830 ed., 54 [1 Nephi 21:2].