11 Wherefore, keep my commandments; they are true and faithful. [ as opposed to the works of Ezra Booth. ] Even so. Amen.

[Historical Material Pertaining to Doctrine & Covenants 71 Ezra Booth, one of the slothful Elders censured in D&C 61, apostatized after his return from Missouri to Ohio and was silenced from preaching there (cf. Far West Record, entry for September 5, 1831, pages 11-12). Six days later he began writing letters to dissuade both members and non-members alike from the Church, and had those letters published in a local newspaper, the Ohio Star. His efforts resulted in considerable bad feelings among locals, so Smith and Rigdon were tasked with countering the campaign. Booth writes a total of 9 letters which get published (http://www.saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_booth.phtml), and are subsequently reprinted in E. D. Howe’s Mormonism Unveiled, the first major anti-Mormon book. Excerpt from History of the Church After Oliver Cowdery and John Whitmer had departed for Jackson county, Missouri, I resumed the translation of the Scriptures, and continued to labor in this branch of my calling with Elder Sidney Rigdon as my scribe, until I received the following: [text of D&C 71 quoted] Knowing now the mind of the Lord, that the time had come that the Gospel should be proclaimed in power and demonstration to the world, from the Scriptures, reasoning with men as in days of old, I took a journey to Kirtland, in company with Elder Sidney Rigdon on the 3rd day of December, to fulfil the above revelation.... From this time until the 8th or 10th of January, 1832, myself and Elder Rigdon continued to preach in Shalersville, Ravenna, and other places, setting forth the truth, vindicating the cause of our Redeemer; showing that the day of vengeance was coming upon this generation like a thief in the night; that prejudice, blindness and darkness filled the minds of many, and caused them to persecute the true Church, and reject the true light; by which means we did much towards allaying the excited feelings which were growing out of the scandalous letters then being published in the Ohio Star, at Ravenna, by the before-mentioned apostate, Ezra Booth. (Joseph Smith, History of the Church, volume 1, pages 238-241) Excerpt from Times & Seasons About this time Ezra Booth came out as an apostate. He came into the church upon seeing a person healed of an infirmity of many years standing. He had been a Methodist priest for some time previous to his embracing the fulness of the gospel, as developed in the Book of Mormon, and upon his admission into the church, he was ordained an elder; as will be seen by the foregoing revelations. He went up to Missouri as a companion of Elder Morley; but when he actually learned that faith, humility, patience, and tribulation, were before blessing; and that God brought low before he exalted; that instead of “the Savior's granting him power to smite men, and make them believe” (as he said he wanted God to do him;) he found he must become all things to all men, that he might peradventure save some, and that too, by all diligence, by perils, by sea and land; as was the case in the days of Jesus, which appears in the 6th chapter of St. John's gospel, he said; “verily, verily I say unto you, ye seek me not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.” So it was with Booth, and when he was disappointed by his own evil heart, he turned away, and as said before, became an apostate, and wrote a series of letters which by their coloring, falsity, and vain calculations to overthrow the work of the Lord exposed his weakness wickedness and folly, and left him a monument of his own shame, for the world to wonder at. (Joseph Smith, Times and Seasons, volume 4, number 7, April 1, 1844)]