"decree on earth, shall be" changed to "decree on earth shall be"
Original Paragraph:
P1762:5, 159:1.3
"The Father in heaven loves his children, and therefore should you learn to
love one another; the Father in heaven forgives you your sins; therefore should
you learn to forgive one another. If your brother sins against you, go to him
and with tact and patience show him his fault. And do all this between you and
him alone. If he will listen to you, then have you won your brother. But if
your brother will not hear you, if he persists in the error of his way, go again
to him, taking with you one or two mutual friends that you may thus have two
or even three witnesses to confirm your testimony and establish the fact that
you have dealt justly and mercifully with your offending brother. Now if he
refuses to hear your brethren, you may tell the whole story to the congregation,
and then, if he refuses to hear the brotherhood, let them take such action as
they deem wise; let such an unruly member become an outcast from the kingdom.
While you cannot pretend to sit in judgment on the souls of your fellows, and
while you may not forgive sins or otherwise presume to usurp the prerogatives
of the supervisors of the heavenly hosts, at the same time, it has been committed
to your hands that you should maintain temporal order in the kingdom on earth.
While you may not meddle with the divine decrees concerning eternal life, you
shall determine the issues of conduct as they concern the temporal welfare of
the brotherhood on earth. And so, in all these matters connected with the discipline
of the brotherhood, whatsoever you shall decree on earth,
shall be recognized in heaven. Although you cannot determine the eternal
fate of the individual, you may legislate regarding the conduct of the group,
for, where two or three of you agree concerning any of these things and ask
of me, it shall be done for you if your petition is not inconsistent with the
will of my Father in heaven. And all this is ever true, for, where two or three
believers are gathered together, there am I in the midst of them."