First Presidency, Correspondence, 1893-1894

File — Box: 2, Folder: 9

Identifier: I

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Wilford Woodruff and JFS, letter to Job Pingree, 23 January 1894, says: "With regard to your questions we will say that no one who has deliberately committed murder can be permitted to be baptized into the Church of Christ, and we regard those who intentionally destroy their children before birth as included in this prohibition; as to the lesser sin of preventing conception, no general rule can be laid down, there are so many different circumstances distinguishing one case from another and such a difference in motives that each particular case has to be judged by itself and decided by the light of the Spirit."

Dates

1893-1894

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