Doctrine and Covenants Commentary - Section 79

by Don R. Hender


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             SECTION 79

Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Hiram, Ohio, March 1832. HC 1:257.

     
    1-4, Jared Carter is called to preach the gospel by the Comforter.
 1 VERILY I say unto you, that it is my will that my servant Jared Carter should go again into the eastern countries, from place to place, and from city to city, in the power of the aordination wherewith he has been ordained, proclaiming glad tidings of great joy, even the beverlasting gospel.

 2 And I will send upon him the aComforter, which shall teach him the truth and the bway whither he shall go;

 3 And inasmuch as he is faithful, I will crown him again with asheavesa.

 4 Wherefore, let your heart be glad, my servant Jared Carter, and afear not, saith your Lord, even Jesus Christ. Amen.

 3a I will crown him again with sheaves Jared Carter had been part of baptizing 27 converts in Vermont in 1831 and just returned in February from being a part of a very successful mission to Spafford, New York, where minister John Gould (Free Will Baptist Chruch), Zera Pulsipher, Shadrach and Uriah Roundy and others are baptized. By December 1832, Jared and his then companion Simeon have baptized a hundred in Vermont. It is obvious that Jared Carter was a very successful missionary both before and after this revelation.