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First elders
Summary
Presiding officers of the church; also, leading elders of the church. A December 1832 revelation directed the first elders, or “first labourers,” to preach the gospel and instructed them to create a school to prepare for their ministry. A June 1834 revelation counseled the first elders of the church to prepare for an endowment of power “from on high,” which JS and others reported receiving in the Kirtland, Ohio, House of the Lord in March 1836.
Links
papers
- History, 1838–1856, volume A-1 [23 December 1805–30 August 1834]
- Affidavit, 7 July 1843–A
- Appendix 1: First Theological Lecture on Faith, circa January–May 1835
- Appendix: Discourses, 22 June and 23 or 24 June 1844, as Recorded in Fullmer, Letterbook
- Blessing to David Whitmer, 22 September 1835
- Blessing to Joseph Kingsbury, 23 March 1843
- Discourse, 12 November 1835
- Journal, 1835–1836
- Letter to Lyman Wight and Others, 16 August 1834
- Letterbook 1
- License for Christian Whitmer, 9 June 1830
- License for John Whitmer, 9 June 1830
- License for Joseph Smith Sr., 9 June 1830
- Revelation Book 2
- Revelation, 22 June 1834 [D&C 105]
- Revelation, 22 June 1834, John Corrill Copy [D&C 105]
- Revelation, 22 June 1834, Martha Jane Knowlton Coray Copy [D&C 105:12b–41]
- Revelation, 22 June 1834, as Recorded in Book of the Law of the Lord [D&C 105]
- Revelation, 22 June 1834, as Recorded in Richards, Pocket Companion [D&C 105]