Section 46

Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet to the Church, at Kirtland, Ohio, 8 March 1831 (see History of the Church, 1:163–65). In this early time of the Church, a unified pattern for the conducting of Church services had not yet developed. However, a custom of admitting only members and earnest investigators to the sacrament meetings and other assemblies of the Church had become somewhat general. This revelation expresses the will of the Lord relative to governing and conducting meetings.