Joseph teaches the Nauvoo Relief Society that he is fallible and has "the frailty of human nature like other men."

Date
Aug 31, 1842
Type
Meeting Minutes / Notes
Source
Joseph Smith, Jr.
LDS
Hearsay
Scribed Verbatim
Direct
Reference

Discourse, 31 August 1842:[80], The Joseph Smith Papers website, accessed October 31, 2023

Scribe/Publisher
Eliza R. Snow
People
Joseph Smith, Jr.
Audience
Nauvoo Relief Society
Transcription

Prest. S. continued by saying, I shall triumph over my enemies— I have begun to triumph over them at home and I shall do it abroad— all those that rise up against me will feel the weight of their iniquity upon their own heads— those that speak evil are abominable characters— and full of iniquity— All the fuss and all the stir against me, is like the jack in the lantern, it cannot be found. Altho’ I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charg’d with doing— the wrong that I do is thro’ the frailty of human nature like other men. No man lives without fault.

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