Mormon History, Jan 20, 1844

-- Jan 20, 1844
[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] 20 Spent the day settelling accounts. In the evening I met with the quorum in the evening & had an interesting time. (H.C.K) (V.K.) Received their second Anointing &c. (1)

[Brigham Young] --20-- Met with the Quorum: Heber C. Kimball and his wife Vilate received their second anointing.

--21 (Sunday)-- I met in the Assembly Room with the Quorum, and administered to Parley P. Pratt his second anointing. (2)

George Albert Smith: Sealed to Bathsheba 20 January 1844. (3)

[Joseph Smith Diary] Saturday, January 20th At home. Called at my office about ten [A.M.] to hold court. Adjourned till 4 P.M. 4 P.M. held court at office, City of Nauvoo vs Stephen Wilkison, /for breach of ordinance/ discharged by paying cost. [several lines left blank] Eve 6 Prayer Meeting. H[eber] C. Kimball and wife present [and anointed to the fullness of the priesthood]. I was at home. (4)

The endowed quorum meets for prayer and sealing ordinance work. (5)

-- January 20th 1844
[High Council Minutes]

Council met according to adjt at the residence of President Marks

No buisness before the council. Adjourned till next Saturday (the 27th) at one o'clock P.M.

Hosea Stout Clerk (6)

-- 21Jan44
[Joseph Smith Sermon] Revelation - Coming of Elijah

Object of Elijah's Mission

Time is Short

Haste Needed - Devil Takes Advantage of the Foolish

All Ordinances Needed

Hard to Introduce New Doctrine (7)

-- Jan 21, 1844
[Anointed Quorum] Sunday evening prayer circle meeting in upper room of Smith's store; anointing and endowment for Parley P. Pratt's deceased wife Thankful Halsey (Hand Pratt), by proxy, second anointings for Parley and Thankful Pratt. Joseph Smith "not there." . (8)

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] Jan 21st 1844 Sunday I met with the congregation of the Saints at the Temple & herd an inter-estin discourse deliverd by President Joseph Smith. In the afternoon I preached to a company of Saints at the house of Br Coolage & had a good time.

I met with the quorum in the evening. Had an interestin time. Many good exhortation were given by the brethren concerning the things of God. (P.P.P.) Received his 2d Anointing. Joseph said Concerning Parley P Pratt that He had no wife sealed to him for Eternity and asked if their was any harm for him to have another wife for time & Eternity as He would want a wife in the Resurrection or els his glory would be Cliped. Many arguments He used upon this subject which were rational & consistant. Br Joseph said now what will we do with Elder P P Pratt? He has no wife sealed to him for Eternity. He has one living wife but she had a former Husband and did not wish to be sealed to Parly for Eternity. Now is it not right for Parley to have another wife that can [ ]? (1)

[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] Jan 21st Sunday + A large assembly of Saints met at the Temple And herd an interesting discours deliverd By President Joseph Smith. The following is a synopsis of his discourse upon the occasion:

When I consider the surrounding circumstances in which I am placed in this day, standing in the open air with week lungs & sumwhat out of health, I feel that I must have prayers & faith of my brethren that God may strengthen me & pour out his special blessings upon me if you get much from me this day.

Their are many people assembled here. to day & throughout this city, & from various parts of the world who say that they have recieved to a certainty a portion of knowledge from God by revelation in the way that he has ordained & pointed out. I shall take the broad ground then that if we have or can receive a portion of knowledge from God by immediate revelation by the same source we can receive all knowledge.

What shall I talk about today? I know what Br Cahoon wants me to speak about, he wants me to speak about the comeing of Elijah in the last days. I can see it in his eye. I will speak upon that Subject then. The Bible says "I will send you Elijah before the great & dredful day of the Lord Come that he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the Children & the hearts of the children to their fathers lest I come & smite the whole earth with a Curse." Now the word turn here should be translated (bind or seal).

But what is the object of this important mission 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 their 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, & herein is the Chain that binds the hearts of the fathers to the Children & the Children to the Fathers which fulfills the mission of Elijah & I would to God that this temple was now done that we might go into it & go to work & improve our time & make use of the seals while they are on earth.

And the Saints have none to much time to save & redeem their dead, & gather together their living relatives that they may be saved also, before the earth will be smitten & the consumption decreed falls upon the world & I would advise all the Saints to go to with their might & gather together all their living relatives to this place that they may be sealed & saved that they may be prepared against the day that the destroying angel goes forth & if the whole Church should go to with all their might to save their dead seal their posterity & gather their living friends & spend none of their time in behalf of the world they would hardly get through before night would come when no man Could work.

And my ownly trouble at the present time is concerning ourselves that the Saints will be divided & broken up & scattered before we get our salvation secure. For their is so many fools in the world for the devil to operate upon it gives him the advantage often times.

The question is freequently asked can we not be saved without going through with all thes ordinances &c. I would answer No not the fulness of Salvation. Jesus Said their was many mansions in his fathers house & he would go & prepare a place for them. House here named should have been translated (Kingdom) & any person who is exhalted to the highest mansion has to abide a celestial law & the whole law to.

But their has been a great difficulty in getting anything into the heads of this generation. It has been like splitting hemlock knots with a corn doger for a wedge & a pumpkin for a beetle; even the Saints are slow to understand. I have tried for a number of years to get the minds of the saints prepared to recieve the things of God, but we free-quently see some of them after suffering all they have for the work of God will fly to peaces like glass as soon as any thing Comes that is Contrary to their traditions. They cannot stand the fire at all. How many will be able to abide a Celestial law & go through & recieve their exhaltation I am unable to say but many are called & few are Chosen.

[ ] (1)


Footnotes:
1 - Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
2 - Manuscript History of Brigham Young, 1801-1844, ed. Elden Jay Watson (Salt Lake City: Smith Secretarial Service, 1968).
3 - Cook, Lyndon W., The Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith: A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants, Seventy's Mission Bookstore, Provo UT, 1985, http://amzn.to/RevelationsofJosephSmith
4 - Faulring, Scott (ed.), An American Prophet's Record: The Diaries and Journals of Joseph Smith: Joseph Smith Diary, 1843-44, http://amzn.to/jsdiaries
5 - Hales, Brian C., Joseph Smith's Polygamy: History and Theology, 2 vols., Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2011 (www.JosephSmithsPolygamy.com)
6 - Minutes of the High Council of the Church of Jesus Christ of Nauvoo Illinois: Nauvoo Hancock County Illinois, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies
7 - The Parallel Joseph, http://www.boap.org/LDS/Parallel/
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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