{"collection":"Sacred Texts: Mormons","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_mor_dc_dc049_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_mor_dc_dc049_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_mor_dc_dc049_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/mor/dc/dc049.htm","summary":"Section 49 of the Doctrine and Covenants is a revelatory text from the early Latter-day Saint scriptural canon, presented as direct divine speech addressed to three named missionaries (Sidney, Parley, and Leman) and commanding them to preach to the Shakers, a contemporaneous communal religious movement. The revelation asserts that the Shakers possess partial truth but err in key doctrines, and it corrects those errors explicitly: it affirms that Christ has not yet returned in human form (countering Shaker belief in Ann Lee as a female Christ), that marriage is ordained of God and celibacy is therefore not divinely required, and that eating meat is lawful. It presents core restoration-era LDS theology \u2014 Christ's atoning mission, the necessity of repentance and baptism, the gift of the Holy Ghost through laying on of hands, and Christ's imminent but temporally unknowable Second Coming \u2014 framed as authoritative correction of Shaker practice. A distinctive economic note appears briefly: the text condemns unequal accumulation of wealth as sin. The section closes with apocalyptic imagery of cosmic upheaval preceding the Second Coming, alongside a millennial promise that Zion and the Lamanites will flourish, before ending with a divine self-identification as Jesus Christ.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Doctrine and Convenants: 49. Revelation through Joseph Smith to Sidney Rigdon, Parley P. Pratt, and Leman Copley, Kirtland, Ohio, March 1831.","tradition":"Sacred Texts: Mormons","translated_text":null,"word_count":867}