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FP comments on timing of original temple garment design.

Date
Mar 10, 1915
Type
Letter
Source
First Presidency
LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reprint
Reference

First Presidency (Joseph F. Smith, Anthon H. Lund, Charles W. Penrose), Letter to Arthur C. Smith, March 10, 1915, in Devery Anderson, The Development of LDS Temple Worship (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2011),171

Scribe/Publisher
Signature Books
People
First Presidency, Arthur C. Smith
Audience
Latter-day Saints, Arthur C. Smith
Transcription

(1). The pattern of the temple garment was given by revelation to the Prophet Joseph Smith [,] exact date as to month or year unknown. (2). the garment with buttons instead of strings, referred to by you, is not the temple garment, and should not be worn as such. (3) It is not right to leave off wearing the temple garment during the day because of hot weather; it should not be taken off at all excepting to be renewed by another, or for the purpose of bathing, or for work or other purposes requiring the baring of the body.

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