Section 158 (Community of Christ)
Reading Time: 5 minutesPresident Wallace B. Smith submitted the following counsel to the World Conference on Sunday, April 5, 1992, and to the quorums, councils, and orders of the church the following day. Major provisions included: (1) President Alan D. Tyree was released from the First Presidency and the vacancy was filled by W. Grant McMurray. (2) Duane…
Section 159 (Community of Christ)
Reading Time: 3 minutesPresident Wallace B. Smith submitted the following counsel to the World Conference on Sunday, April 10, 1994, and to the quorums, councils, and orders of the church the following day. Major provisions included: (1) Paul W. Booth was released from duties as presiding evangelist and Apostle Everett S. Graffeo was called to fill the vacancy. (2) Apostles Geoffrey F. Spencer and C. Eugene…
Section 160 (Community of Christ)
Reading Time: 2 minutesPresident Wallace B. Smith submitted the following letter of instruction to the World Conference on Sunday, April 14, 1996, and to the quorums, councils, and orders of the church the following day. Conference delegates voted on April 15, 1996, to include this document in the Doctrine and Covenants. The pastoral letter referred to in the document is published…
Section 161 (Community of Christ)
Reading Time: 4 minutesPresident W. Grant McMurray submitted the following counsel to the quorums, councils, and orders of the church and to the World Conference on Tuesday, April 4, 2000. Conference delegates voted on April 7, 2000, to include this document in the Doctrine and Covenants. President McMurray prefaced his “Words of Counsel to the Church” with the following introductory…
Section 162 (Community of Christ)
Reading Time: 5 minutesPresident W. Grant McMurray submitted the following counsel to the quorums, councils, and orders of the church and to the World Conference on Monday, March 29, 2004. Conference delegates voted on March 31, 2004, to include this document in the Doctrine and Covenants. President McMurray prefaced his “Words of Counsel to the Church” with the following introductory…
Section 163 (Community of Christ)
Reading Time: 7 minutesPresident Stephen M. Veazey submitted the following counsel to the church and to the World Conference on Sunday, March 25, 2007. Following a period of discernment, the counsel was presented to the quorums, councils, and orders of the church and to the World Conference again on Thursday, March 29, 2007, to be considered for inclusion in the…
Section 164 (Community of Christ)
Reading Time: 8 minutesPresident Stephen M. Veazey released counsel to the church on January 17, 2010, at the Temple in Independence, Missouri. Counsel also was printed in the February 2010 Herald. The church had time to consider the counsel and its implications before World Conference. President Veazey formally submitted the following counsel to the World Conference on Sunday, April 11,…
Section 165 (Community of Christ)
Reading Time: 4 minutesPresident Stephen M. Veazey submitted the following counsel to the church and to the World Conference on April 14, 2013. The counsel was presented to the quorums, councils, and orders of the church and to the World Conference again on Monday, June 6, 2016, to be considered for inclusion in the Doctrine and Covenants. President…
Section 1 (The Revelations of James Strang)
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Letter of Appointment, from the Prophet Joseph Smith, appointing James Strang by Revelation as his successor, and appointing Voree as a stake of Zion. Written from Nauvoo, June 18th, 1844, nine days prior to his Martyrdom. 1 My Dear Son: Your epistle of May 24th, proposing the planting a stake of Zion in Wisconsin…
Section 2 (The Revelations of James Strang)
Reading Time: 3 minutesHistory of the James’s baptism and ordination by the Smith brothers, blessings that foretell his calling, and the details of the Letter of Appointment. 1a And now it appears that this letter was written on this wise: 1b In February, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-four, James J. Strang, in company with Aaron Smith…