Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1893 Excerpt: ... by the church, we never regarded it as an authentic publication. The Reorganized Church never did. 93 We recognize the Book of Doctrine and Covenants as authorized by the church in 1835, as the declared law of the church to govern it. I cannot tell you whether there was a revelation given through my father in 1838 giving the name of the church as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I do not know whether there was such a revelation or not. I do not remember of publishing an editorial in the Herald, in which I stated that to be a fact. I would recognize the paper if I saw it. I recognize the paper handed me, it is a copy of the Herald published at Lamoni, Iowa. I recognize the article on the first page as the leading article. Questions and Answers. I recognize it as an article written by one of the editors. The editors are Joseph Smith and W. W. Blair. Joseph Smith, that is myself. I indorse that article as an editorial utterance of the editor who wrote it, simply indorse it as the utterance of the editor who wrote it. The statements and citations given there are stated to be from current and written history, but as to their correctness and truthfulness, I could not say. We considered the authority from which we quoted as being indicative of what the understanding at that time was, and as evidence concerning the name of the church. We get authority for the addition to the name of the church, from the fact understood by us that it was a reorganization of the ele'ments into a new organization of the elements of the church that had been scattered abroad. We get it from the logic of events, things that transpired, and the membership. They were gathered together in that way from different sections. We recognize in the Reorganized Church the rule of lo...
