The current text of D&C 78:3 reads:
For verily I say unto you, the
time has come, and is now at hand; and behold, and lo, it must needs be that
there be an organization of my people, in regulating and establishing
the affairs of the storehouse for the poor of my people, both in this place and
in the land of Zion—
The earliest text, however, does not read “an organization
of my people”; instead the verse initially read:
for verily I say unto you the
time has come and and is now at hand and behold & lo it must needs be that
there be an organization of the Literary and Merchantile establishments of my
church both in this place and in the land of Zion (Revelation,
1 March 1832 [D&C 78], page 1)
