April 1981 · Saturday Afternoon
The Joseph Smith III Document and the Keys of the Kingdom
Elder Gordon B. Hinckley
Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
Elder Hinckley explained that a father's blessing document did not alter succession, since the keys rest with the Twelve Apostles.
“It is not a record of ordination to an office.”
“Brigham Young and others similarly blessed their sons.”
“There has been an unbroken chain”
“the sure word of prophecy and revelation”
Scriptures
D&C 107:24; D&C 112:30; D&C 124:127–28; Eph. 2:20
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