Letterbook 1

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  • Historical Introduction
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Letter, A Council of High Priests to the Church at Geneseo, New York • 23 November 1833
November 23d. 1833
An epistle from a councel of high Priests of the church of Christ organized on the 6 of April AD 1830 to their brethren, of the same church residing at Levingston county New-York;
Dearly beloved brethren
It is with feelings of deep int[e]rest for your, welfare that we address ourselves to you by this Epistle, which we send by the hands of our worthy brethren and , both personally known to us, whom we reccommend to your fellowship as men of good morals and of firm and unshaken integrity in the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, to which ministry they have been called and regularly ordained by the hands of this church and set a part to this office after having been received into the same by baptism according to the Articles and covenants thereof
It is just for us, for your sakes, to say that our brother , was one of those who first embraced this gospel, and was soon set apart to the work of the ministry, and during an exercised labor of three years has conducted himself with that propriety and has made such advances in the knowledge of the doctrines of the doctrine kingdom of Christ, that we reccommend him in full confidence as a man capable of setting in order the ordancences [ordinances] and requisition of the same, Our brother has Labored in the ministry more then two years during which he has showed himself worthy of the high responsibility and is Justly [p. 76]
Letter, A Council of High Priests to the Church at Geneseo, New York • 23 November 1833
November 23d. 1833
An epistle from a councel of high Priests of the church of Christ organized on the 6 of April AD 1830 to their brethren, of the same church residing at Levingston county New-York;
Dearly beloved brethren
It is with feelings of deep interest for your, welfare that we address ourselves to you by this Epistle, which we send by the hands of our worthy brethren and , both personally known to us, whom we reccommend to your fellowship as men of good morals and of firm and unshaken integrity in the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, to which ministry they have been called and regularly ordained by the hands of this church and set a part to this office after having been received into the same by baptism according to the Articles and covenants thereof
It is just for us, for your sakes, to say that our brother , was one of those who first embraced this gospel, and was soon set apart to the work of the ministry, and during an exercised labor of three years has conducted himself with that propriety and has made such advances in the knowledge of the doctrines of the kingdom of Christ, that we reccommend him in full confidence as a man capable of setting in order the ordancences [ordinances] and requisition of the same, Our brother has Labored in the ministry more then two years during which he has showed himself worthy of the high responsibility and is Justly [p. 76]
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