Revelation on War
When was the revelation on war (Sec
87, Doctrine and Covenants), first printed and where?
The revelation on war, as contained in
Sec. 87 of the Doctrine and Covenants, was printed by Elder Franklin D. Richards
in the first edition of tie Pearl of Great Price, in 1851. He received a
copy of the revelation from Elder Orson Pratt at Liverpool, where the former was
then laboring. In the Millennial Star, 1851, page 216, a notice of the publication
of the first edition of the Pearl of Great Price appears, with a list of
its contents. In this list is included “a revelation given in December 1832,
which has never before appeared in print.” It follows clearly from this that
the revelation was given to the world years before the event it foretold took
place; and that its first publication was by the late Apostle Franklin D.
Richards in the Pearl of Great Price, printed in Liverpool, in 1851. ("Questions
and Answers," Improvement
Era 9, no. 12 [October 1906]: 976)
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