History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Volume 2Smith, Joseph, Jr.
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History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Volume 2
Smith, Joseph, Jr.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Smith, Joseph, Jr., 1805-1844
56. And if the properties are mine, then ye are stewards, otherwise
ye are no stewards.
57. But, verily I say unto you, I have appointed unto you to be
stewards over mine house, even stewards indeed;
58. And for this purpose I have commanded you to organize
yourselves even to shinelah (print) my words, the fullness of my
scriptures, the revelations which I have given unto you, and which
I shall hereafter, from time to time, give unto you,
59. For the purpose of building up my Church and Kingdom on the
earth, and to prepare my people for the time when I shall dwell
with them, which is nigh at hand.
{59} 60. And ye shall prepare for yourselves a place for a
treasury, and consecrate it unto my name;
61. And ye shall appoint one among you to keep the treasury, and he
shall be ordained unto this blessing;
62. And there shall be a seal upon the treasury, and all the sacred
things shall be delivered into the treasury, and no man among you
shall call it his own, or any part of it, for it shall belong to
you all with one accord;
63. And I give it unto you from this very hour; and now see to
it, that ye go to and make use of the stewardship which I have
appointed unto you, exclusive of the sacred things, for the purpose
of shinelane (printing) these sacred things as I have said;
64. And the avails of the sacred things shall be had in the
treasury, and a seal shall be upon it, and it shall not be used
or taken out of the treasury by any one, neither shall the seal
be loosed which shall be placed upon it, only by the voice of the
order, or by commandment.
65. And thus shall ye preserve the avails of the sacred things in
the treasury for sacred and holy purposes:
66. And this shall be called the sacred treasury of the Lord; and a
seal shall be kept upon it that it may be holy and consecrated unto
the Lord.
67. And again, there shall be another treasury prepared, and a
treasurer appointed to keep the treasury, and a seal shall be
placed upon it;
68. And all moneys that you receive in your stewardships, by
improving upon the properties which I have appointed unto you, in
houses, or in lands, or in cattle, or in all things save it be the
holy and sacred writings, which I have reserved unto myself, for
holy and sacred purposes, shall be cast into the treasury as fast
as you receive moneys, by hundreds, or by fifties, or by twenties,
or by tens, or by fives;
69. Or in other words, if any man among you obtain five talents
(dollars), let him cast them into the treasury; or if he obtain
ten, or twenty, or fifty, or an hundred, let him do likewise;
70. And let not any among you say that it is his own, for it shall
not be called his, nor any part of it;
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