Letterbook 1

  • Source Note
  • Historical Introduction
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blameless to the coming of our lord Jesus Christ Amen— Joseph Smith Jun
PS say to that his confession gave me great satisfaction and all things are now settled on my part tell Sister Chloer that her Mother is well and living with bro and is now at my house——
Letter, Hyrum Smith and Others to “the Churches of Christ” • 1 June 1833
June first 1833
To the Churches of— Christ in——. we feel ourselves under obligation to writ[e] to you as well as to all the churches of the different branches and we do this that you with us may exert yourselves to bring about the fulfilment of the command of the Lord concerning the establishing or preparing a home whereby the Elders who have been commanded of the Lord to so to do, to gather themselves together and prepare all things and call a solemn assembly and treasure up words of wisdom that they might go forth to the Gentiles for the last time. and we now in order to accomplish this we are directed yea we are under the necessity to call on the whole Church as a body that they make evry possable exertion to aid temporally as well as spiritually in this great work that the Lord is bringing about and is about to accomplish and unless we fulfil this command vis establish an and prepare all things necessary whereby the Elders may gather into a school [p. 36]
blameless to the coming of our lord Jesus Christ Amen— Joseph Smith Jun
PS say to that his confession gave me great satisfaction and all things are now settled on my part tell Sister Chloer that her Mother is well and living with bro and is now at my house——
Letter, Hyrum Smith and Others to “the Churches of Christ” • 1 June 1833
June first 1833
To the Churches of— Christ in——. we feel ourselves under obligation to write to you as well as to all the churches of the different branches and we do this that you with us may exert yourselves to bring about the fulfilment of the command of the Lord concerning the establishing or preparing a home whereby the Elders who have been commanded of the Lord so to do, to gather themselves together and prepare all things and call a solemn assembly and treasure up words of wisdom that they might go forth to the Gentiles for the last time. and now in order to accomplish this we are directed yea we are under the necessity to call on the whole Church as a body that they make evry possable exertion to aid temporally as well as spiritually in this great work that the Lord is bringing about and is about to accomplish and unless we fulfil this command vis establish an and prepare all things necessary whereby the Elders may gather into a school [p. 36]
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