Blessing to William W. Phelps, 22 September 1835, as Recorded in Phelps, Diary and Notebook
Source Note
JS, Blessing, to , [, Geauga Co., OH], 22 Sept. 1835. Version copied [not before 3 Oct. 1835] in Phelps, Diary and Notebook, pp. 30–34 (second numbering), in handwriting of ; CHL.
Blessed of the Lord is for he shall have the desires of his heart in the gift that pertaineth to writing the law of God, and in being an instrument in writing to lift up an ensign to the Nation. And according to the greatness of the desires of his soul for blessings of his friends so shall the blessings of the Lord [p. 30]