Elder Charles Smith made some remarks referring in the course thereof to the Rev on Celestial Marriage. Said in relation thereto that the Patriarch Hyrum Smith met with the Elders at Nauvoo in the winter of 1843–4 and there told them that the doctrine of Plurality of Wives had bothered him considerably and he felt constrained to ask wherein Abraham Moses, David & others could be justified before God in practicing this to him repugnant doctrine—He asked his brother the Prophet Joseph to ask this question of the Lord—Joseph did so and the Reveln given 12 July 1843 was the answer.