Wilford Woodruff reports that Brigham taught that Adam and Eve "done right in partaking of the forbidden fruit."

Date
Jan 8, 1865
Type
Personal Journal / Diary
Source
Brigham Young
LDS
Hearsay
Scribed Summary
Reference

Wilford Woodruff, Journal, January 8, 1865, The Wilford Woodruff Papers website, accessed March 13, 2023

Scribe/Publisher
Wilford Woodruff
People
Brigham Young, Ezra T. Benson, Wilford Woodruff
Audience
N/A
Transcription

8. I met with my Quorum in the morning & attended meet-ing at the Tabernacle all day. E. T. Benson spoke in the morning & President Young in the afternoon which was a vary interesting discourse He conveyed the idea that Adam & Eve done right in partaking of the forbidden fruit they were sent to the Earth to do it that man might know the contrast good & Evil In the Evening we mightt for prayer 8 of the Twelve were pres-ent. I preached in the 19 ward in the Evening

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