At a council of the Twelve Apostles, Amasa M. Lyman was admitted into their quorum, having been previously ordained to the Apostleship. Elder Wilford Woodruff was appointed to go to England to preside over the British mission. (1)
-- Aug 12, 1844, Monday
[William Clayton Writings] Monday 12th. At the Temple Office & Emma's settling & preparing papers for her settlement as administratrix. (2)
-- 1844: 13 August
[Patriarchal Blessings] George Washington Johnson. (Given by John Smith.)
"Brother George, I lay my hands upon thy head in the name of the living God to seal a Fathers blessing upon thee for thou are a lawful heir to the blessings sealed upon the heads of thy fathers and to their posterity even the sons of Joseph to be to thee and thy seed forever and I asked my heavenly father to preserve thy life and give thee health and strength for many years until thou shalt accomplish every purpose of thy hearts desire that thy name may be held in honorable remembrance through out all generations. Thy posterity shall be as numerous as the stars in heaven which cannot be numbered. Thou shalt be a savior upon Mt Zion and stand with the 144,000 clothed in white. Thou shalt have power to go from land to land and from sea to sea. From island to island and from Planet to Planet and visit the prisons where the spirits of the departed dwell proclaiming salvation thro all thy course and mighty power and success which cannot now be described. The number of thy years s
hall be according to thy faith even to see the curtains of Zion spread over all the continent of America with all the beauty and glory thereof. Thou shalt have thine inheritance with thy brethren in time and in eternity and thy companion and thy children with thee possessing all the riches of heaven and earth to thy full satisfaction if thou are faithful not one word shall fail for I seal it upon thee by the authority of the Priesthood and I seal thee up to Eternal Life [remainder of typescript cut off]. (From typescript; Diary of George Washington Johnson, 1823-93, p. 15, BYU Special Collections.) [Age, ?; Scribe, ?] (3)
-- Aug 13, 1844
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 13th Elder O. Hyde returned home to Nauvoo to day. I rode in company with Mrs Woodruff to sister Browns. (4)
Apostle Orson Hyde arrives in Nauvoo. However he later gives elaborate personal reminiscences of a "transfiguration" he could not possibly have witnessed. Hyde reports, in 1869 that when Brigham Young began to speak to the Saints on Aug 8, 1844, "his words went through me like electricity." This is my testimony, Hyde added for special emphasis, "it was not only the voice of Joseph Smith but there were the features, the gestures and even the stature of Joseph before us in the person of Brigham." In 1877 Hyde declares in general conference, "I heard the voice of Joseph through him, and it was as familiar to me as the voice of my wife, the voice of my child, or the voice of my father. And not only the voice of Joseph did I distinctly and unmistakably hear, but I saw the very gestures of his person, the very features of his countenance, and if I mistake not, the very size of his person appeared on the stand. And it went through me with the thrill of conviction that Brigham was th
e man to lead this people." (5)
-- Aug 14, 1844
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 14th I met in Council with the Twelve, Nauvoo House and Temple Commities and the Temple Stone Cutters, in order to create a unity of feelings, and action and an equality of pay &c. A good feeling was manifest. (4)
[Joseph Smith] Lucien R. Foster, the first Mormon photographer, places an ad in Nauvoo Neighbor. President of the New York City branch (1841-43) and member of the Council of Fifty (1845-46), Foster's two daguerreotypes of the Nauvoo temple in 1846 are the most enduring images of the Mormon capital. He is excommunicated in 1846. (6)
[Nauvoo Temple] The Twelve and the Temple Committee met with the stone cutters and the "affect was good." (7)
-- Aug 15, 1844
[Anointed Quorum] Thursday prayer circle; second anointing of George and Mary Catharine Fry Miller . (8)
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 15th I am settelling up all my accounts and paying all that I owe so I may be prepared to take a mission to england. Elizabeth Frazier Commenced work at my house this day.
I met in Council with the Twelve () in the fore part of the day. They resolved to bear of the Kingdom of God in all the world, in truth, honesty virtue, and Holiness, & set their faces as a flint against evry species of wickedness, vice and dishonesty, in all its forms.
I met with the quorum in the afternoon for Prayer, to Pray for the Sick. Mrs Woodruff was with me. (Geo M) (Mrs M) Br and Sister Miller was Present. Was Prayed for as Sister Miller was quite out of health. (4)
Footnotes:
1 - Jenson, Andrew, Church Chronology
2 - 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
3 - Selected LDS Patriarchal Blessings, New Mormon Studies CD ROM, Signature Book, 2009, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
4 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
5 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com
6 - Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 7: Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47, http://amzn.to/origins-power
7 - Brown, Lisle (compiler), Chronology of the Construction, Destruction and Reconstruction of the Nauvoo Temple
8 - 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
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