![]() ![]() ![]() You know what it is and can read it at your leisure.” (In Journal of Discourses, 12:158.) Notes and Commentary D&C 89:2. ![]() This, and the complaints of his wife at having to clean so filthy a floor, made the Prophet think upon the matter, and he inquired of the Lord relating to the conduct of the Elders in using tobacco, and the revelation known as the Word of Wisdom was the result of his inquiry. Often when the Prophet entered the room to give the school instructions he would find himself in a cloud of tobacco smoke. When they assembled together in this room after breakfast, the first they did was to light their pipes and, while smoking, talk about the great things of the kingdom and spit all over the room, and as soon as the pipe was out of their mouths a large chew of tobacco would then be taken. … The brethren came to that place for hundreds of miles to attend school in a little room probably no larger than eleven by fourteen. The first school of the prophets was held in a small room situated over the Prophet Joseph’s kitchen, in a house which belonged to Bishop Whitney. President Brigham Young said: “I think I am as well acquainted with the circumstances which led to the giving of the Word of Wisdom as any man in the Church, although I was not present at the time to witness them. ![]()
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