Brigham claims Emma destroyed the original manuscript of D&C 132.

Date
Aug 8, 1874
Type
Speech / Court Transcript
Source
Brigham Young
LDS
Hearsay
Unsourced
Late
Reference

Brigham Young, Speech, August 8, 1874, in "The United Order is the Order of the Kingdom Where God and Christ Dwell," Journal of Discourses, 26 vols. (Liverpool: Albert Carrington; London: Latter-Day Saints' Book Depot, 1875), 17:159

Scribe/Publisher
Journal of Discourses
People
Brigham Young, Emma Hale Smith, George A. Smith, Joseph Smith, Jr.
Audience
Reading Public
PDF
Transcription

Brother George A. Smith has been reading a little out of the revelation concerning celestial marriage, and I want to say to my sisters that if you lift your heels against this revelation, and say that you would obliterate it, and put it out of existence if you had the power to nullify and destroy it, I say that if you imbibe that spirit and feeling, you will go to hell, just as sure as you are living women. Emma took that revelation, supposing she had all there was; but Joseph had wisdom enough to take care of it, and he had handed the revelation to Bishop Whitney, and he wrote it all off. After Joseph had been to Bishop Whitney's he went home, and Emma began teasing, for the revelation. Said she— "Joseph, you promised me that revelation, and if you are a man of your word you will give it to me." Joseph took it from his pocket and said— "Take it." She went to the fire-place and put it in, and put the candle under it and burnt it, and she thought that was the end of it, and she will be damned as sure as she is a living woman. Joseph used to say that he would have her hereafter, if he had to go to hell for her, and he will have to go to hell for her as sure as he ever gets her.

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