The Witness of the Sister Concerning the Truth of the Gospel
Published October 18, 2026 at 9:05 PM
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A sister bore her testimony in an officers' meeting regarding how God gave her a witness through the revelation of His spirit that the gospel of Jesus Christ, known as Mormonism, is true, and that by that same spirit she received knowledge of her duty to obey the Word of Wisdom.
Fuller account of this event (the complete account as preserved in The Young Woman's Journal, vol. 19 no. 9 (September 1908), page 536):
A sister bore her testimony in an officers' meeting regarding how God gave her a witness through the revelation of His spirit that the gospel of Jesus Christ, known as Mormonism, is true, and that by that same spirit she received knowledge of her duty to obey the Word of Wisdom.
In Their Own Words
“When I listened to our sister, who bore her testimony here today, teiling how God gave to her, by the revelation of his spirit, the witness that this gospel, called ‘Mormonism’ by the world is in very deed the gospel of Jesus Christ,—I rejoiced also to hear her bear her testimony, that by that same spirit, and that same witness, she recieved a knowledge from God that it was her duty to obey what is known to the Latter-day Saints as the Word of Wisdom. — The Young Woman's Journal 19:9”
Sources & References
The Young Woman's Journal, vol. 19 no. 9 (September 1908). L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University digital collections. https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/YWJ/id/15925 (account extracted verbatim from the collection's page-level OCR; research confidence: high) Complete account: The Young Woman's Journal, vol. 19 no. 9 (September 1908), page 536 https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/YWJ/id/15925
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