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Covenant, 29 November 1834

 
prosper us in our busi ness, and open the way be fore <us> that we may obtain  means to pay our debts,  that we be not troubled  nor brought into disre pute before the world nor  his people, that after  that of all that he shall  give us we will give  a tenth, to be bestowed  upon the poor in his  church

The Book of Mormon related that when Christ set up his church in the Americas, “they which were baptized in the name of Jesus, were called the church of Christ.” The first name used to denote the church JS organized on 6 April 1830 was “the Church of Christ...

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, or as he shall  command

Generally, a divine mandate that church members were expected to obey; more specifically, a text dictated by JS in the first-person voice of deity that served to communicate knowledge and instruction to JS and his followers. Occasionally, other inspired texts...

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, and that  we will be faithful over  that which he has entrus ted to our care and that we [p. 88]

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Covenant, 29 November 1834
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