Joseph Smith Papers, Minutes and Discourses, June 9, 1842, pp. 61-63 “…if one member suffer all feel it— by union of feeling we obtain 
pow’r with God. Christ said he came to call sinners to repentance and save them. Christ was condemn’d by the righteous jews because he took sinners into his society— he took them <up>on the principle that they repented of their sins.
It is the object of this Society to reform persons, not to take those that are corrupt, but if they repent we are bound to take them and by kindness sanctify and cleanse from all unrighteousness, by our influence in watching over them— nothing will have such influence over people, as the fear of being disfellowship’d by so goodly a Society as this. (more…)
