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Revelations printed in Evening and Morning Star, January 1835–June 1836
Articles and Covenants, circa April 1830 [D&C 20] Page 2 Articles and Covenants, circa April 1830 [D&C 20] Page 193 Revelation, circa August 1830 [D&C 27] Page 155 Revelation, September 1830–A [D&C 29] Page 60 Revelation, 2 January 1831 [D&C 38] Page 125 Revelation, 9 and 23 February 1831, excerpt [D&C 42:12–77] Page 30 Revelation, 23 February 1831, excerpt [D&C 42:78–93] Page 74 Revelation, circa 7 March 1831, excerpt [D&C 45:1–71] Page 5 Revelation, circa 8 March 1831–A [D&C 46] Page 42 Revelation, 7 May 1831 [D&C 49] Page 93 Revelation, 9 May 1831 [D&C 50] Page 43 Revelation, 7 August 1831 [D&C 59] Page 26 Revelation, 12 August 1831 [D&C 61] Page 105 Revelation, 30 August 1831, excerpt [D&C 63:1–64] Page 140 Revelation, 30 October 1831 [D&C 65] Page 62 Revelation, 1 November 1831–A [D&C 68] Page 73 Revelation, 1 November 1831–B [D&C 1] Page 155 Revelation, 3 November 1831 [D&C 133] Page 177 Revelation, 4 December 1831–A, B, C [D&C 72] Page 106 Revelation, February 1831–A, excerpt [D&C 43:15–35] Page 74 Vision, 16 February 1832 [D&C 76] Page 27 Revelation, 30 April 1832 [D&C 83] Page 126 Revelation, 27–28 December 1832, excerpt [D&C 88:117–126] Page 138 Revelation, 3 January 1833, [D&C 88:127–137] Page 156 June 1832 (January 1835) Issue Page 2 July 1832 (February 1835) Issue Page 26 August 1832 (March 1835) Issue Page 42 September 1832 (April 1835) Issue Page 60 October 1832 (June 1835) Issue Page 73 November 1832 (September 1835) Issue Page 93 December 1832 (April 1836) Issue Page 105 January 1833 (April 1836) Issue Page 125 February 1833 (May 1836) Issue Page 138 March 1833 (May 1836) Issue Page 155 May 1833 (June 1836) Issue Page 177 June 1833 (June 1836) Issue Page 193
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Revelations published in Evening and Morning Star (
Kirtland
Located ten miles south of Lake Erie. Settled by 1811. Organized by 1818. Latter-day Saint missionaries visited township, early Nov. 1830; many residents joined Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Population in 1830 about 55 Latter-day Saints and...
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, OH), vol. 1, nos. 1–10 and 12, and vol. 2, no. 13; edited by
Oliver Cowdery
3 Oct. 1806–3 Mar. 1850. Clerk, teacher, justice of the peace, lawyer, newspaper editor. Born at Wells, Rutland Co., Vermont. Son of William Cowdery and Rebecca Fuller. Raised Congregationalist. Moved to western New York and clerked at a store, ca. 1825–1828...
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. The copy used for this transcription is currently part of a bound volume held at CHL; includes marginalia and archival notations.

Evening and Morning Star, an edited reprint of The Evening and the Morning Star, presents revelations throughout its first thirteen issues, except for the April 1833 issue, which was printed in June 1836. When printing Evening and Morning Star, the editors revised the revelations found in The Evening and the Morning Star, changing wording and sometimes order and position on the page. One revelation printed in the earlier newspaper was not reprinted in this edition of the paper.
1
Revelation,16 Apr. 1830, in “The Articles and Covenants of the Church of Christ,” The Evening and the Morning Star, June 1832, [1]–[2] [D&C 22].
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The Evening and the Morning Star. Independence, MO, June 1832–July 1833; Kirtland, OH, Dec. 1833–Sept. 1834.
The page size of Evening and Morning Star was smaller than that of its predecessor. Each issue has eight leaves (sixteen pages), with two columns on each page, each page measuring 9¼ × 5¾ inches (23 × 15 cm). Because Evening and Morning Star was a reprint, its issues maintained the dating of the original issues; thus, the first issue of Evening and Morning Star is dated June 1832, though it was printed in January 1835, as indicated by a publisher’s notice on the last page of the issue.

The original owner of the volume used for this transcription is unknown. The upper right corner of the second free endsheet is cut away, and based on a residual ink flourish on the recto near the cut, it appears that a signature was removed from the book at some point. This volume is held at the Church History Library, but its provenance is unknown.
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[1]
Revelation,16 Apr. 1830, in “The Articles and Covenants of the Church of Christ,” The Evening and the Morning Star, June 1832, [1]–[2] [D&C 22].
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In December 1833, six months after the
printing office
JS revelations, dated 20 July and 1 Aug. 1831, directed establishment of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’s first printing office in Independence, Missouri. Dedicated by Bishop Edward Partridge, 29 May 1832. Located on Lot 76, on Liberty Street...
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in
Independence
Located twelve miles from western Missouri border. Permanently settled, platted, and designated county seat, 1827. Hub for steamboat travel on Missouri River. Point of departure for Santa Fe Trail. Population in 1831 about 300. Latter-day Saint population...
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, Missouri, was
destroyed
20 Jul. 1833
Vigilantes, demanding removal of Latter-day Saints from Jackson County, Missouri, destroyed printing office and tarred and feathered Edward Partridge and Charles Allen, Independence, Jackson County, Missouri; a few dozen copies of unfinished Book of Commandments...
and publication efforts there were permanently halted, printing commenced on a newly acquired press in
Kirtland
Located ten miles south of Lake Erie. Settled by 1811. Organized by 1818. Latter-day Saint missionaries visited township, early Nov. 1830; many residents joined Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Population in 1830 about 55 Latter-day Saints and...
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, Ohio. That press, operated by
F. G. Williams & Co.
A firm established by the United Firm on 11 September 1833 to print newspapers in Kirtland, Ohio. In December 1833, F. G. Williams & Co. resumed the interrupted printing of the church newspaper The Evening and the Morning Star. After the United Firm was reorganized...
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, continued printing The Evening and the Morning Star, the newspaper begun in
Missouri
Area acquired by U.S. in Louisiana Purchase, 1803, and established as territory, 1812. Missouri Compromise, 1820, admitted Missouri as slave state, 1821. Population in 1830 about 140,000; in 1836 about 240,000; and in 1840 about 380,000. Latter-day Saint ...
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, through September 1834. The September 1834 issue of that paper contained a prospectus announcing that the paper’s two volumes would be reprinted.
1
“Prospectus,” The Evening and the Morning Star, Sept. 1834, 192.
The first issue of the reprinted newspaper, which appeared under the slightly modified title Evening and Morning Star, was published in January 1835.
2
The title that appears in the newspaper’s nameplate was likely shortened because of a reduction in the newspaper’s size. The longer original title, The Evening and the Morning Star, is printed at the middle and end of each issue with other publication information. For the sake of clarity, the reprinted paper is referred to by its shortened title for all references in The Joseph Smith Papers.
Though touted as a reprint that would correct typographical and other errors,
3
Evening and Morning Star actually contained significant changes to the revelation texts. In the first issue, editor
Oliver Cowdery
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explained the revisions he was making in the reprinted versions of the revelations:
On the revelations we merely say, that we were not a little surprised to find the previous print so different from the original. We have given them a careful comparison, assisted by individuals whose known integrity and ability is uncensurable. Thus saying we cast no reflections upon those who were entrusted with the responsibility of publishing them in
Missouri
Area acquired by U.S. in Louisiana Purchase, 1803, and established as territory, 1812. Missouri Compromise, 1820, admitted Missouri as slave state, 1821. Population in 1830 about 140,000; in 1836 about 240,000; and in 1840 about 380,000. Latter-day Saint ...
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, as our own labors were included in that important service to the church, and it was our unceasing endeavor to have them correspond with the copy furnished us. We believe they are now correct. If not in every word, at least in principle.
4
Notice, Evening and Morning Star, June 1832 (Jan. 1835), 16. The prospectus to Evening and Morning Star also states “that in the first 14 numbers, in the Revelations, are many errors, typographical, and others, occasioned by transcribing manuscript; but as we shall have access to originals, we shall endeavor to make proper corrections.” (“Prospectus,” The Evening and the Morning Star, Sept. 1834, 192.)
Evening and Morning Star. Edited reprint of The Evening and the Morning Star. Kirtland, OH. Jan. 1835–Oct. 1836.
Despite the implications of
Cowdery
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’s statement, very few of the changes in the reprint represent a restoration back to the earliest text, though Cowdery consulted early manuscript sources when reprinting some of the revelations.
5
On 4 February 1835, Cowdery wrote to Newel K. Whitney requesting that the latter send “the original copy of the Revelation given to 12 elders Feb. 1831 called ‘The Law of the Church.’” Cowdery explained, “We are preparing the old Star for re-printing, and have no copy from which to correct, and kno[w] of no other beside yours.” (Oliver Cowdery, Kirtland, OH, to Newel K. Whitney, 4 Feb. 1835, Newel K. Whitney, Papers, BYU.)
Whitney, Newel K. Papers, 1825–1906. BYU.
Because the revelations were meant to be used as a guide for the current operations of the church, they were edited in 1835 to reflect current organization, doctrine, and practice, which had continued to develop since the revelations were first dictated. For example, the version of a 9 February 1831 revelation printed in Evening and Morning Star includes discussion of the duties of elders, priests, teachers, bishops, high priests, and the high council.
6
Revelation, 9 Feb. 1831, in “Extract of Covenants for the Church of the Latter Day Saints,” Evening and Morning Star, July 1832 (Feb. 1835), 30–31 [D&C 42].
Early versions of the revelation, however, make no mention of the office of high priest, which did not exist until June 1831,
7
See Minute Book 2, 3 June 1831.
Minute Book 2 / “The Conference Minutes and Record Book of Christ’s Church of Latter Day Saints,” 1838, 1842, 1844. CHL. Also available at josephsmithpapers.org.
or of the high council, a body that was not organized until February 1834.
8
Minute Book 1, 17 Feb. 1834; see also Minutes, 17 Feb. 1834, in Doctrine and Covenants 5, 1835 ed. [D&C 102].
Minute Book 1 / “Conference A,” 1832–1837. CHL. Also available at josephsmithpapers.org.
Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of the Latter Day Saints: Carefully Selected from the Revelations of God. Compiled by Joseph Smith, Oliver Cowdery, Sidney Rigdon, and Frederick G. Williams. Kirtland, OH: F. G. Williams, 1835. Also available in Robin Scott Jensen, Richard E. Turley Jr., Riley M. Lorimer, eds., Revelations and Translations, Volume 2: Published Revelations. Vol. 2 of the Revelations and Translations series of The Joseph Smith Papers, edited by Dean C. Jessee, Ronald K. Esplin, and Richard Lyman Bushman (Salt Lake City: Church Historian’s Press, 2011).
The revelation was revised in 1835 to reflect these additional roles. Most of the changes made to revelations in the early issues of Evening and Morning Star are also reflected in the same revelations as published in the first edition of the Doctrine and Covenants (1835), and the editing work on that volume, in turn, influenced the presentation of revelations in later issues of Evening and Morning Star.
9
For example, the updates made in Revelation, 9 February 1831, for publication in Evening and Morning Star were then introduced into Doctrine and Covenants 13:8, 10, 19, 1835 ed. [D&C 42:31, 34, 71].
The table that follows lists each of the revelatory items printed in the Star and its reprint, along with its bibliographic information. See Revelations Printed in The Evening and the Morning Star for a side-by-side comparison of the revelations printed in the Star and its reprint.
Key to column titles
Vol: Issue: Volume and issue number
Star Print Date: Month in which the item was printed in The Evening and the Morning Star
Star Pages: Pages on which the item was printed in The Evening and the Morning Star
Reprint Print Date: Month in which the item was printed in Evening and Morning Star
Reprint Pages: Pages on which the item was printed in Evening and Morning Star
Date: Date of item, followed by section number in Doctrine and Covenants, 1981 edition, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Vol: Issue Star Print Date Star Pages Reprint Print Date Reprint Pages Date
1:1 June 1832 [1] Jan. 1835 2–4 10 Apr. 1830 [D&C 20]
1:1 June 1832 [1]–[2] 16 Apr. 1830 [D&C 22]
1:1 June 1832 [2] Jan. 1835 5–6 ca. 7 Mar. 1831 [D&C 45:1–67, 71]
1:2 July 1832 [1] Feb. 1835 30–31 9 and 23 Feb. 1831 [D&C 42:11–77]
1:2 July 1832 [1] Feb. 1835 26–27 7 Aug. 1831 [D&C 59]
1:2 July 1832 [2]–[3] Feb. 1835 27–30 16 Feb. 1832 [D&C 76]
1:3 Aug. 1832 [1] Mar. 1835 42–43 ca. 8 Mar. 1831–A [D&C 46]
1:3 Aug. 1832 [1] Mar. 1835 43–44 9 May 1831 [D&C 50]
1:4 Sept. 1832 [2] Apr. 1835 60–62 Sept. 1830–A [D&C 29]
1:4 Sept. 1832 [2] Apr. 1835 62 30 Oct. 1831 [D&C 65]
1:5 Oct. 1832 [2] June 1835 74 23 Feb. 1831 [D&C 42:78-93]
1:5 Oct. 1832 [2]–[3] June 1835 74 Feb. 1831–A [D&C 43:15–35]
1:5 Oct. 1832 [3] June 1835 73–74 1 Nov. 1831–A [D&C 68]
1:6 Nov. 1832 [7] Sept. 1835 93–94 7 May 1831 [D&C 49]
1:7 Dec. 1832 [5] Apr. 1836 105–106 12 Aug. 1831 [D&C 61]
1:7 Dec. 1832 [5]–[6] Apr. 1836 106–107 4 Dec. 1831 [D&C 72]
1:8 Jan. 1833 [5]–[6] Apr. 1836 125–126 2 Jan. 1831 [D&C 38]
1:8 Jan. 1833 [6] Apr. 1836 126 30 Apr. 1832 [D&C 83]
1:9 Feb. 1833 [5] May 1836 138 27–28 Dec. 1832 [D&C 88:117–126]
1:9 Feb. 1833 [6]–[7] May 1836 140–141 30 Aug. 1831 [D&C 63:1–64]
1:10 Mar. 1833 [6] May 1836 155 ca. Aug. 1830 [D&C 27]
1:10 Mar. 1833 [6] May 1836 155–156 1 Nov. 1831–B [D&C 1]
1:10 Mar. 1833 [6] May 1836 156–157 3 Jan. 1833 [D&C 88:127–137]
1:12 May 1833 [1]–[2] June 1836 177–179 3 Nov. 1831 [D&C 133]
2:13 June 1833 97–98 June 1836 193–196 10 Apr. 1830 [D&C 20]
Footnotes
[1]
[2]
The title that appears in the newspaper’s nameplate was likely shortened because of a reduction in the newspaper’s size. The longer original title, The Evening and the Morning Star, is printed at the middle and end of each issue with other publication information. For the sake of clarity, the reprinted paper is referred to by its shortened title for all references in The Joseph Smith Papers.
[3]
[4]
Notice, Evening and Morning Star, June 1832 (Jan. 1835), 16. The prospectus to Evening and Morning Star also states “that in the first 14 numbers, in the Revelations, are many errors, typographical, and others, occasioned by transcribing manuscript; but as we shall have access to originals, we shall endeavor to make proper corrections.” (“Prospectus,” The Evening and the Morning Star, Sept. 1834, 192.)
[5]
On 4 February 1835, Cowdery wrote to Newel K. Whitney requesting that the latter send “the original copy of the Revelation given to 12 elders Feb. 1831 called ‘The Law of the Church.’” Cowdery explained, “We are preparing the old Star for re-printing, and have no copy from which to correct, and kno[w] of no other beside yours.” (Oliver Cowdery, Kirtland, OH, to Newel K. Whitney, 4 Feb. 1835, Newel K. Whitney, Papers, BYU.)
Whitney, Newel K. Papers, 1825–1906. BYU.
[6]
Revelation, 9 Feb. 1831, in “Extract of Covenants for the Church of the Latter Day Saints,” Evening and Morning Star, July 1832 (Feb. 1835), 30–31 [D&C 42].
[7]
See Minute Book 2, 3 June 1831.
Minute Book 2 / “The Conference Minutes and Record Book of Christ’s Church of Latter Day Saints,” 1838, 1842, 1844. CHL. Also available at josephsmithpapers.org.
[8]
Minute Book 1, 17 Feb. 1834; see also Minutes, 17 Feb. 1834, in Doctrine and Covenants 5, 1835 ed. [D&C 102].
Minute Book 1 / “Conference A,” 1832–1837. CHL. Also available at josephsmithpapers.org.
[9]
For example, the updates made in Revelation, 9 February 1831, for publication in Evening and Morning Star were then introduced into Doctrine and Covenants 13:8, 10, 19, 1835 ed. [D&C 42:31, 34, 71].
Asterisk (*) denotes a "featured" version, which includes an introduction and annotation. *Revelation, 27–28 December 1832 [D&C 88:1–126]
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February 1833 (May 1836) Issue
Revelation, 27–28 December 1832, excerpt [D&C 88:117–126]
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Excerpt of Revelation, 27 and 28 Dec. 1832, in “Revelation,” Evening and Morning Star, Feb. 1833 (May 1836), 138 [D&C 88:117–126]. This version closely corresponds to the version in section 7 of the 1835 Doctrine and Covenants, suggesting that the latter was used as a source text for the former. This revelation is presented as part of an editorial titled “COMMANDMENTS.” The word “REVELATION” precedes the text of the revelation and is centered as though it were a title, though it is also the final word of the editorial.
REVELATION:
Therefore, verily I say unto you, my friends, call your
solemn assembly
A special church meeting or conference convened to conduct church business, administer sacred ordinances, and receive spiritual power and instruction. In November 1831, the Saints were directed by revelation to gather as a body in solemn assemblies. A December...
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, as I have
commanded
Generally, a divine mandate that church members were expected to obey; more specifically, a text dictated by JS in the first-person voice of Deity that served to communicate knowledge and instruction to JS and his followers. Occasionally, other inspired texts...
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you; and as all have not faith, seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom: seek learning even by study, and also by faith. Organize yourselves; prepare every needful thing, and establish a house, even a house of prayer, a house of fasting, a house of faith, a house of learning, a house of glory, a house of order, a house of God; that your incomings may be in the name of the Lord; that your outgoings may be in the name of the Lord; that all your salutations may be in the name of the Lord, with uplifted hands unto the Most High.
Therefore, cease from all your light speeches; from all laughter: from all your lustful desires: from all your pride and lightmindedness, and from all your wicked doings.— Appoint among yourselves a teacher, and let not all be spokemen at once; but let one speak at a time, and let all listen unto his sayings, that when all have spoken, that all may be edified of all, and that every man may have an equal privilege.
See that ye love one another; cease to be covetous, learn to impart one to another as the gospel requires; cease to be idle, cease to be unclean; ceasc to find fault one with another; cease to sleep longer than is needful; retire to thy bed early, that ye may not be weary; arise early, that your bodies and your minds may be invigorated: and above all things, clothe yourselves with the bonds of charity, as with a mantle, which is the bond of perfectness and peace: pray always, that you may not faint till I come: behold, and lo, I will come quickly, and receive you unto myself: Amen. [p. 138]
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Revelations printed in Evening and Morning Star, January 1835–June 1836
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Total Pages
39
Print Volume Location
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Footnotes
[23]
Excerpt of Revelation, 27 and 28 Dec. 1832, in “Revelation,” Evening and Morning Star, Feb. 1833 (May 1836), 138 [D&C 88:117–126]. This version closely corresponds to the version in section 7 of the 1835 Doctrine and Covenants, suggesting that the latter was used as a source text for the former. This revelation is presented as part of an editorial titled “COMMANDMENTS.” The word “REVELATION” precedes the text of the revelation and is centered as though it were a title, though it is also the final word of the editorial.