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Source:Oliver Cowdery's character:Oliver Cowdery Letter to Phineas Young, 23 March 1846
Oliver Cowdery (1846): “I have cherished a hope...that I might leave such a character”
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Oliver Cowdery (1846): “I have cherished a hope...that I might leave such a character”
In 1846, Oliver Cowdery wrote to his brother-in-law Phineas H. Young:
I have cherished a hope, and that one of my fondest, that I might leave such a character as those who might believe in my testimony, after I shall be called hence, might do so, not only for the sake of truth, but might not blush for the private character of the man who bore that testimony. I have been sensitive on this subject, I admit; but I ought to be so—you would be, under the circumstances, had you stood in the presence of John, with our departed brother Joseph, to receive the Lesser Priesthood—and in the presence of Peter, to receive the Greater, and look down through time, and witness the effects these two must produce.[1]
Notes
- ↑ Oliver Cowdery letter to Phineas H. Young, 23 March 1846, Church History Library, MS 2646; see also, Ronald G. Watt, "Had You Stood in the Presence of Peter,"Ensign (February 1977): 78–79.