[Joseph Smith]
The public meeting of the Saints was at my house this evening ... I read the 13th chapter of First Corinthians, also a part of the 14th chapter, and remarked that the gift of tongues was necessary in the Church; but that if Satan could not speak in tongues, he could not tempt a Dutchman, or any other nation, but the English, for he can tempt the Englishman, for he has tempted me, and I am an Englishman; but the gift of tongues by the power of the Holy Ghost in the Church, is for the benefit of the servants of God to preach to unbelievers, as on the day of Pentecost. When devout men from every nation shall assemble to hear the things of God, let the Elders preach to them in their own mother tongue, whether it is German, French, Spanish or "Irish," or any other, and let those interpret who understand the language spoken, in their own mothertongue, and this is what the Apostle meant in First Corinthians xiv: 27.
[Source: Manuscript History of the Church, in The Words of Joseph Smith by Joseph Smith by Andrew F. Ehat and Lyndon W. Cook]
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