170 years ago today - Feb 1, 1843

In a poetic exchange with W. W. Phelps ("The Answer. To W. W. Phelps, esq. A Vision") Joseph Smith paraphrased D&C 76 in verse form, and it was printed in the Times and Seasons [IV:6], pp. 82-85. In stanza 20, Joseph Smith, speaking of all the worlds created by Christ, adds:

Whose inhabitants, too, from the first to the last,

Are sav'd by the very same Saviour of ours ...

[Source: Grunder, Rick, Mormon Parallels: A Bibliographic Source]

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