Nauvoo, Illinois. In the assembly room above the Red Brick Store, Joseph Smith related a dream about his efforts to save friends on a steamboat and walking on the water with his brother Samuel Smith. (1)
Hannah Greenwood Fielding and Agnes Coolbrith Smith become members of the endowed quorum by this date. (2)
John Taylor is sealed to his third plural wife, Ann Vowles. (2)
The endowed quorum meets for prayer and three new members receive temple ordinances: Joseph Young, Jane A. Bicknell Young, and William Clayton. Joseph Smith is not present. (2)
-- Feb 3, 1844. Saturday.
[William Clayton Journal] ...P.M. was permitted to the ordinance of washing and anointing, and was received into the Quorum of Priesthood. This is one of the greatest favors ever conferred on me and for which I feel grateful. May the God of Joseph preserve me and mine house to walk in the paths of righteousness all the days of my life and oh that I may never sin against him or displease him. For thou oh God knowest my desire to do right that I may have eternal life. (3)
-- February 3rd 1844
[High Council Minutes]
James Brinkerhoff.
The above charge was tried before the said Bishop and Council and the charge not sustained.
Jonathan H. Hale Bishop
of the 9th Ward."
Which was adjourned till next Saturday at one clock P.M. and that the parties were to leave the matter to two disinterested men who were to try and settle their difficulty previous to that time.
The Committee appointed on the 3rd Feb. reported again which was accepted with one amendment.
Adjourned till next Saturday at one o'clock P.M.
Hosea Stout Clerk (4)
-- Feb 4, 1844
[Anointed Quorum] Sunday evening prayer circle in upper room of Smith's store, second anointing for Cornelius and Permelia Lott. Joseph Smith "made some remarks respecting the hundred and forty-four thousand mentioned by John the Revelator, showing that the selection of persons to form that number had already commenced" . (5)
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 4th Sunday I preached at Elder Kingtons & returned to Nauvoo in the evening. 6 miles.
I met with the quorum in the evening. Br & Sister Lott was present. We had a good time in prayer. Br Joseph gave us good instruction in meekness & humility. The revelator John remarks was quoted to in the evening Concerning the 144,000 of the tribes of Israel. /Cornelius P. Lott & wife Received their 2d Anointing & sealing./ (6)
[Brigham Young] February 4.-- I preached at Brother Chamberlain's a little north of the city. My brothers Joseph, Phinehas H. and Lorenzo D. and John Pack were present. (7)
[Joseph Smith Diary] Sunday, February 4th 1844 [several lines left blank] I attended in the [blank] [blank]. Evening at the prayer meeting [at the] Brick Store. Cornelius P. Lot and wife present [and anointed]. (8)
Joseph Smith instructs: "what is the object of this important mission [of Elijah] or how is it to be fulfilled, The keys are to be deliverd the spirit of Elijah is to Come, The gospel to be esstablished the Saints of God gatherd Zion built up, & the Saints to Come up as Saviors on mount Zion but how are they to become Saviors on Mount Zion by building thair temples erecting their Baptismal fonts & going forth & receiving all the ordinances, Baptisms, Confirmations, washings anointings ordinations & sealing powers upon our heads in behalf of all our Progenitors who are dead & redeem them that they may Come forth in the first resurrection & be exhalted to thrones of glory with us, & here in is the chain that binds the hearts of the fathers to the Children, & the Children to the Fathers which fulfills the mission of Elijah. (2)
The endowed quorum meets for prayer and sealing ordinance work. (2)
-- Feb 4, 1844, Sunday
[William Clayton Writings] Sunday 4th At home all day. Evening attended quorum.-- (9)
Footnotes:
1 - Joseph Smith Resource Center: Daily Events in the Life of Joseph Smith, http://josephsmith.net/josephsmith/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=e581001cfb340010VgnVCM1000001f5e340aRCRDlocale=0
2 - Hales, Brian C., Joseph Smith's Polygamy: History and Theology, 2 vols., Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2011 (www.JosephSmithsPolygamy.com)
3 - George D. Smith, An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1995, http://amzn.to/william-clayton
4 - Minutes of the High Council of the Church of Jesus Christ of Nauvoo Illinois: Nauvoo Hancock County Illinois, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
5 - Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Signature Books, 1994, Appendex: Meetings and Initiations of the Anointed Quorum, 1842-45, http://amzn.to/origins-power
6 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
7 - Manuscript History of Brigham Young, 1801-1844, ed. Elden Jay Watson (Salt Lake City: Smith Secretarial Service, 1968).
8 - Faulring, Scott (ed.), An American Prophet's Record: The Diaries and Journals of Joseph Smith: Joseph Smith Diary, 1843-44, http://amzn.to/jsdiaries
9 - Fillerup, Robert C., compiler; William Clayton Nauvoo Diaries and Personal Writings, A chronological compilation of the personal writings of William Clayton while he was a resident of Nauvoo, Illinois. http://www.boap.org/LDS/Early-Saints/clayton-diaries
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