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The Words of Joseph Smith

The Contemporary Accounts of the Nauvoo Discourses of the Prophet Joseph
Andrew F. Ehat and Lyndon W. Cook, Editors
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7 April 1843 (1) (Friday Morning). In Temple

Joseph Smith Diary, by Willard Richards[1]

President Joseph rather hoarse from speaking so long yesterday—said he would use the boys lungs to day.—[and after the trial of the Temple Committee] President Joseph stated that the business of the conference had closed. & the remainder of the conference would be devoted to instruction—it is an insult to the meeting to have people run out of meeting Just before we close. if they must go let them go 1/2 an hour before. No Gentleman will go out of meeting Just at close.

—7 April 1843 (1)

Notes

[1] See History of the Church, 5:337, and Teachings, p. 287. The original source for the History of the Church and Teachings entries is the Joseph Smith Diary. The following remarks were made at the April 1843 General Conference of the Church.