Discourse, 1 June 1839, as Reported by Wilford Woodruff
Source Note
JS, Discourse, , Adams Co., IL, 1 June 1839. Version copied [17 June 1839] in Wilford Woodruff, Journal, vol. 2, 1 Jan. 1838–31 Dec. 1839, [90]; handwriting of ; Wilford Woodruff Journals and Papers, 1828–1898, CHL. For more complete source information, see the source note for Discourse, 7 July 1839, as Reported by Wilford Woodruff.
Asterisk (*) denotes a "featured" version, which includes an introduction and annotation.
*Discourse, 1 June 1839
Page [90]
ON the first of June there was a held in principly for the benefit of the Joseph was president of the meeting, & the seventies learned that it was not the will of God that they should appoint or have a committy or committies to take care of their poor &c. but that were the authorities that God had appointed for that purpose & that they should procede according to that order & they did so & gave up the Committy which they had appointed [p. [90]]