"My Son John: You have asked me concerning the new and everlasting covenant and how far it is binding upon my people. Thus Sayeth the Lord:

"AIl commandments that I give must be obeyed by those calling themselves by my name, unless they are revoked by me or by my authority, and how can I revoke an everlasting covenant, for I the Lord am everlasting and my everlasting covenants cannot be abbrogated, nor done away with, but they stand forever.

"Have I not given my word in great plainness on this subject? Yet have not great numbers of my people been negligent in the observance of my laws and the keeping of my commandments, and yet have I borne with them these many years, and this because of their weakness, because of the perilous times, and, furthermore it is now pleasing to me that men should use their free agency in regards to these matters.

"Nevertheless, I the Lord do not change and my word and my covenants and my law do not, and as I have heretofore said: By my servant Joseph all those that would enter into my glory must and shall obey my law, and have I not commanded men that if they were Abraham's seed and would enter into my glory they must do the works of Abraham?

"I have not revoked this law, nor will I, for it is everlasting and those who will enter into my glory must obey the conditions thereof. Even so, Amen."

(Revelation to President John Taylor—Sept. 27, 1886. While in hiding during "under-ground days." Original in John Taylor's own hand writing said to be in Church historian's office. Was not this revelation in answer to inquiry relative to the issuing of such a document as the Manifesto of 1890?)