In the March 19, 1905 minutes of the Salt Lake High Council, we find the following summary of the words of Joseph F. Smith:
while he had never received from God a revelation on some new
doctrine or commandment, to be written and preserved and handed down as a law
to the Church, he had been guided from the day of his baptism, by divine influence,
and had been aided time and again by the spirit of God in his work in the
ministry, and strongly expressed the wish that if, in his day, some new revelation
should be needed by the Church, he might be worthy to receive it. (Salt Lake
High Council Minutes, March 19, 1905 as found in Michael Harold Paulos, “Under
the Gun at the Smoot Hearings: Joseph F. Smith’s Testimony,” in Michael Harold
Paulos and Konden Smith Hansen, eds., The Reed Smoot Hearings: The
Investigations of a Mormon Senator and the Transformation of an American Religion
[Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 2021], 205 n. 38)
Of course, one fulfillment of
Smith’s words would be in October 1918 with the reception of D&C 138.
