At a meeting of the high council in Nauvoo <Sept 23, 1843> Br Hirum Smith read the revilation relating to the plurality of wives, he said he did not believe it at first, it was so contrary to his feelings, but he said he knew Joseph was a profit of God, so he made a covenant that he would not eat, drink, or sleep untill he knew for himself, that he had got a testimony that it was true, that he had even herd the voice of God concerning it. This is what James Allred related on the night of the 15th of October 1854.