Letter to Oliver Cowdery, December 1834, as Published in Letters by Oliver Cowdery to W. W. Phelps
Source Note
JS, Letter, [, Geauga Co., OH], to , [, Geauga Co., OH], Dec. 1834. Version published in Letters by Oliver Cowdery to [William] W. Phelps, 1844, pp. 47–48. The copy used for transcription is held at CHL.
and more particularly as I often acted in violation of those holy precepts which I knew came from God. But as the “” of this church are plain upon this particular point, I do not deem it important to proceed further. I only add, that I do not, and never have, pretended to be any other than a man, “subject to passion” and liable, without the assisting grace of the Saviour, to deviate from that perfect path in which all men are commanded to walk!
By giving the above a place in your valuable paper, you will confer a lasting favour upon myself as an individual, and, as I humbly hope, subserve the cause of righteousness.
I am, with feelings of esteem, your fellow-labourer in the gospel of our Lord,