Now, there is another
precious artifact that you've been kind
enough to bring to us. Tell us about this
precious book. So this is the copy of
the Book of Commandments, and I love this,
President, because they went to great lengths
from the get-go to put the revelation in the
hands of the Church members, of the Saints. This is our first attempt to
put the revelations received by the Prophet Joseph
into printed book form. They had printed some of
the early revelations. That was printed in Missouri. In Missouri, in Independence. And so you think almost
of the audacity of us to haul a printing press out
to the frontier at that time, independence, Missouri, and
to start a printing press, a printing office there
and print newspapers. And the Book of Commandments
is our first attempt to really compile these
revelations, 15 of which were received here in
Harmony, and to get them into the hands of the Saints. That attempt somewhat
failed because of the mobs and the destruction
of the printing press. How many copies of the
Book of Commandments would you say we know about? We know of 29 that exist
today, so very rare. I'm told that they wanted to
charge $0.25 or $0.30 a copy for those at that time. What's it worth now? Today, it would be
in the millions. I'll give it back to you. So they are just so rare. And this one is
exceptionally rare because it happens to be
the copy of Oliver Cowdery. It has Oliver and Joseph's
name written in it, and they used this as the copy
in the printing office that was established in Kirtland, Ohio. Well, hold it right up again so
our viewers can see a document that I'd never seen before. The title page there. It is so precious. So they're all unique,
because in 1833, you just had the loose leaves,
the gatherings, and so each of these individuals
that had the gatherings of what was going to be the
Book of Commandments took it and had them bound. And so it's incomplete. It cuts off, actually,
in today's section 64 of the Doctrine and Covenants. Thank you. And then they--all these
revelations eventually end up in the Doctrine and Covenants
when that's published a couple of years later. Thank you very much,
Brother Metcalf.