Revelation, 20 July 1831, as Recorded in Gilbert, Notebook [D&C 57]
Source Note
Revelation, , Jackson Co., MO, 20 July 1831. Version copied [ca. Sept. 1831] in Sidney Gilbert, Notebook, pp. [34]–[36]; handwriting of ; Revelations Collection, CHL.
and let my servant stand intheeverlastinginheritance in the office which I have appointed to receive monies to be an unto the to buy lands in all the regions round about inasmuch as can be in righteousness & as wisdom shall direct & let my servant stand in the office which I have appointed him to divide unto the their even as I have commanded and also them whom he has appointed to assist him——
And again verily I say unto you let my Servant plant himself in this place & establish a that he may sell Goods without fraud that he may obtain money to buy lands for the good of the Saints & that he may obtain provisions & whatsoever things the disciples may need to plant them in their inheritance & also let my Servant obtain Licence (Behold here is wisdom & whose readeth let him understand) that he may send— goods also unto the even by whom he will as Clerks employed in his service & thus the Gospel may be preached unto them— And again verily I say unto you let my Servant also be [p. [35]]