Letter to the Church, circa February 1834, as Published in Evening and Morning Star
Letter to the Church, circa February 1834, as Published in Evening and Morning Star
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“Elders” (including JS), Letter, , Geauga Co., OH, to “brethren in Christ, and companions in tribulation,” ca. Feb. 1834. Version published in “The Elders of the Church in Kirtland, to Their Brethren Abroad,” Evening and Morning Star, Feb. 1834 (Aug. 1836), pp. 271–272; Mar. 1834 (Aug. 1836), pp. 283–285. The copy used for transcription is held at CHL.
Historical Introduction
Historical Introduction
See Historical Introduction to Letter to the Church, ca. Feb. 1834.
peace and happiness among men. And as before remarked, God is the source from whence proceeds all good; and if man is benefitted by law, then certainly, law is good; and if law is good, it, or the principle of it emanated from God; for God is the source of all good; consequently, then, he was the first Author of law, or the principle of it, to mankind.
-[The foregoing should, by good rights, have appeared in No. 17, but was omitted by accident.]- [p. 285]
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