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Revelation, 6 June 1831 [D&C 52]
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& Samuel (Smith) also take their Journey let my Servent Wheeler (Baldwin) & william (Carter) also take their Journey let my Servent Newel Knight & Sealy [Selah] (Griffin) both be ordained & also take their Journey yea verily I say unto you let all these take their Journey unto one Place in their Several courses & one man shall not build upon anothers foundation neither Journey in an others tracks he that is faithfull the same shall be kept & blest with much fruit & again I say unto you let my servent Joseph (Wakefield) & Solomon (Hmphrey) [Solomon
Humphrey Jr.] take their Journey into the easteren lands & let them labour with their families declaring none other things than the Prophets & Apostles that which they have seen & heard & most shuredly believe that the Prophecies may be fulfilled[.] in consequence of transgression let that which was bestowed upon Heman (Bassett) be taken from him & placed upon the head of Simonds [Symonds] (Rider) & again verily I say unto you let Jared Carter be ordained a Priest & also George (James) be ordained a Priest let the residue of the Elders watch over the Churches & declare the word in the regiones among them & let them labour with their own hands that there be no Idolitry nor wickedness practiced & remember in all things the poor & the Needy the Sick & the afflicted for he that doeth not these things is not my deciple these things the same is not my Deciple & again let my Servent Joseph & Sidney & Edward take with them a recomend from the Church & let there be one obtained for my Servent Oliver [Cowdery] also & thus even as I have said if ye are faithfull ye shall assemble yourselves together to rejoice upon the land of your inheritance which is now the land of your enemies but behold I the lord will hasten the City in its time & will crown the faithfull with Joy & rejoicing Behold I am Jesus Christ the Son of God & I will lift them up at the last day even so amen [p. 89]
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View Full BioRevelation, Kirtland, OH, 6 June 1831; handwriting of John Whitmer; in Revelation Book 1, pp. 87–89; CHL.
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