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Walter Kirn@walterkirn Old news is more important than new news because new news is built on top of it. When you are renovating a structure you don't start with the roof but with the foundation. Let's go back and get the old stories right. Otherwise nothing will be right, from here on out.

Joseph F. Smith on 1831 revelation on plural marriage

Joseph F. Smith explained that "when the Prophet Joseph Smith recieved the revelation in relation to the eternity of the marriage covenant, which includes plural marriage, in 1831, the Lord showed him those women who were to engage with him in the establishment of that principle in the Church, and at that time some of these women were named and given to him, to become his wives when the time should come that this principle should be established.

Very respectfully, etc.,

Joseph F. Smith"

Deseret Evening News | 1882-02-18 | Page 2

https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/details?id=23174384




Here is the article from the previous day to which JFS referred.

Deseret Evening News | 1882-02-17 | Page 3







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