William Clayton records Heber C. Kimball alluding to garment description.

Date
Dec 21, 1845
Type
Personal Journal / Diary
Source
Heber C. Kimball
LDS
Hearsay
Scribed Summary
Reprint
Reference

George D. Smith, ed., An Intimate Chronicle: The Journals of William Clayton (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1995), 221, 326-27

Scribe/Publisher
Signature Books
People
William Clayton, George D. Smith, Wilford Woodruff, Heber C. Kimball
Audience
N/A
Transcription

Our garments should be properly marked and we should understand those marks and we should wear those garments continually, by night and by day, in prison or free, and if the devils in hell cut us up, let them cut the garments to pieces also, if we have the garments upon us at all times we can at any time offer up the signs. He [Heber C. Kimball] then related an instance of some children being healed and cured of the whooping cough in one night, through the prayers of himself and Elder Woodruff, in Michigan, while they were there on a mission. Said that whenever they could get an opportunity they retired to the wilderness or to an upper room, they did so and offered up the signs, and they were always answered. It would be a good thing for us to put on our garments every day and pray to God, and in private circles, when we can do so with safety . . . You all want to get garments, and you need not wait to get fine linen or bleached cotton for your garments. Shirting or sheeting will do for garments. The women can cut theirs from the cuts on their hsubands. We dont want you to come here and take up the time to cut your garments. Go to a good faithful sister, and secret yourselves, and make your garments. We have been crowded too much and we have got to stop it. And if you have cloth, and come here to get your cloth cut, we shall keep it here to make use of it till we get through. We dont want one person that has come into the order the week past, to come into this room during the coming week except those who are to work.

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