Revelation Accepted At General Conference
On September 30, 1978, at the 148th Semiannual General Conference of the LDS Church, the following was presented by N. Eldon Tanner, First Counselor in the First Presidency of the church:
In early June of this year, the First Presidency announced that a revelation had been received by President Spencer W. Kimball extending priesthood and temple blessings to all worthy male members of the Church. President Kimball has asked that I advise the conference that after he had received this revelation, which came to him after extended meditation and prayer in the sacred rooms of the holy temple, he presented it to his counselors, who accepted it and approved it. It was then presented to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, who unanimously approved it, and was subsequently presented to all other General Authorities, who likewise approved it unanimously.
On that day, the general conference unanimously voted to accept the revelation "as the word and will of the Lord."
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