Heber C. Kimball requests beheading if he ever seduces a woman.

Date
Jul 16, 1854
Type
Speech / Court Transcript
Source
Heber C. Kimball
LDS
Hearsay
Scribed Verbatim
Reference

Heber C. Kimball, "Sanctification," Journal of Discourses, 26 vols. (Liverpool: 1862), 7:20

Scribe/Publisher
George D. Watt
People
Heber C. Kimball
Audience
Latter-day Saints
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Transcription

These are my views, and the Lord knows that I believe in the principles of sanctification; and when I am guilty of seducing any man's wife, or any woman in God's world, I say, sever my head from my body. These have ever been my feelings from the days of my youth. This is my character, and the character of President Brigham Young. It was the character of Joseph Smith and of Jesus Christ; and that is the character of the Apostles of Jesus, and that must be sustained by this people.

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