Young Men Prove Themselves through Missionary Work — Times & Seasons (April 15, 1842)
He [Joseph Smith] said . . . to choose young men, and ordain them, and send them out to preach, that they may have an opportunity of proving themselves, and of enduring the tarring and feathering and such things as those of us who have gone before them, have had to endure.
Times and Seasons, 15 April 1842, p. 761, The Joseph Smith Papers.
