In his blessing of Newell K. Whitney, October 7, 1835, Joseph predicted Whitney’s life-long faithfulness to the Restored Gospel:
blessed of the Lord is brother
Whitney, even the Bishop of the Church of Latter-Day Saints, for the Bishoprick
shall never be taken away from him while he liveth. and the time cometh when he
shall overcome all the narrow-mindedness of his heart, and all his covetous
desires that so easily beset him. He shall deal with a liberal hand to the
poor, the needy, the sick and afflicted the widow and the fatherless.
Marvelously and miraculously shall the Lord his God provide for him, even, that
he shall be blessed with a fulness of the good things of this earth, and his
seed after him from generation to generation. And it shall come to pass, that
according to the measure that he metes out with a liberal hand unto the poor,
so shall it be measured to him again by the hand of his God, even an hundred
fold. Angels shall guard his habitation, and protect the lives of his
posterity; and they shall become very numerous on the earth. Whomsoever he
blesseth, shall be blessed and whosoever. he curseth shall be cursed. When his enemies
seek to hurt or destroy him, let him rise up and curse them and the hand of God
shall be upon his enemies in judgement: They shall be utterly confounded and
brought to desolation. Therefore, he shall be preserved unto the utmost, for
his life shall be precious in the sight of the Lord. He shall rise up and shake
himself as a Lion. As a Lion riseth out of his nest and roareth until he
shaketh, the hills, as a Lion goeth forth among the lesser beasts, so shall the
goings forth of him be whom the Lord hath anointed to exalt the poor and humble
the rich. Therefore, his name shall be on high and his rest among the
sanctified.
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