Revelation, 12 August 1831, as Recorded in Gilbert, Notebook [D&C 61]
Source Note
Revelation, Bank of the [at McIlwaine’s Bend], MO, 12 Aug. 1831. Version copied [ca. Sept. 1831] in Gilbert, Notebook, pp. [37]–[45]; handwriting of ; Revelations Collection, CHL. For more complete source information, see the source note for Revelation, 27 Feb. 1833 [D&C 89].
little if it so be that they fill their mission whether they go by water or by land, let this be as it is made known unto them according to their judgements hereafter & now concerning my Servants & Joseph & let them come not again upon the waters, save it be upon the Canal while journeying unto their homes, or in other words they shall not come upon the waters to journey save upon the Canal— behold I the Lord have appointed a way for the journeying of my & behold this is the way, that after they leave the Canal they shall journey by land inasmuch as they are to journey & go up unto the land of & they shall do like unto the Children of Israel pitching their [p. [41]]