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Answers to Questions, between circa 4 and circa 20 March 1832, as Recorded in Richards, Notebook [D&C 77]

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Hiram Township

Area settled by immigrants from Pennsylvania and New England, ca. 1802. Located in northeastern Ohio about twenty-five miles southeast of Kirtland. Population in 1830 about 500. Population in 1840 about 1,100. JS lived in township at home of John and Alice...

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, Portage Co., OH, ca. Mar. 1832]. Version copied between [ca. 19 Nov. 1842 and ca. 19 May 1846] in Samuel W. Richards, Notebook, ca. 1844–1845, pp. [27]–[36]; handwriting of Samuel W. Richards; Samuel W. Richards, Papers, CHL.

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5 <​4​>th. What are we &c— by the four and twenty
Elders

A male leader in the church generally; an ecclesiastical and priesthood office or one holding that office; a proselytizing missionary. The Book of Mormon explained that elders ordained priests and teachers and administered “the flesh and blood of Christ unto...

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A We are &c— that these Elders whom John saw were Elders who had been faithful in the work of the Ministry & were dead who belonged to the Seven Churches & were there
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TEXT: Or “then”.


in the Paradice of God.—
5th. What are we &c— by the book which was sealed with 7 seals on the back which John saw?
A We are &c— that it contains the revealed will of God & mysteries & words of God. the hidden things of his Econemy concerning this earth during the 7 thousand [p. [29]]
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Answers to Questions, between circa 4 and circa 20 March 1832, as Recorded in Richards, Notebook [D&C 77]
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    TEXT: Or “then”.

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