2/9/2018 - Section 83:1-6
February 9, 2018 Section 83:1-6 Ward Family, Widow Care, Children Care, Joseph and the brethren are still in Missouri. Joseph wrote about some of the challenges the saints faced being there in Missouri on the edge of civilization: “On the 27 th [of April 1832] we transacted considerable business for the salvation of the Saints, who were settling among a ferocious set of mobbers, like lambs among wolves. It was my endeavor to so organize the Church, that the brethren might eventually be independent of every encumbrance beneath the celestial kingdom, by bonds and covenants of mutual friendship, and mutual love.” Joseph went on to record how joyous it was to meet with one another again, and “ rejoice with the people of God .” Basically this section ensures that no one is neglected: women and children who have lost their husband and/or fathers are not only to be cared for temporally from the storehouse of the church, but they shall also have ‘fellowship in the c...