Revelation to Joseph Smith on building Nauvoo Temple; place for baptisms and endowment. Doctrine and Covenants 124:28-42
16th I walked in company with Elder Needham
to Keysend Street
recieved a letter from
Elder G A. Smith who informed me of the Death
of Sister Bentley the widow of the late David
W. Patten one of the Twelve Apostles who was
martered in America I met with a crouded con-
gregation of the Saints, & preached unto them, my
mind is Deeply impressed with the necessity of urging
the gathering of the Saints, this at the present time
seems to be the most important & almost the
ownly subject that I feel to convers about while
among the Churches. The Saints contributed
£06 shillings for me I walked whome with Br James
Baldwin & conversed untill 2 oclock & spent the
night Distance of the Day 8 miles
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