The Mysteries of Godliness: A History of Mormon Temple Worship by David J. Buerger

Author:David J. Buerger
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Signature Books
Published: 2016-03-04T07:00:00+00:00

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1. “Manuscript History of Brigham Young,” 4:107, archives, historical department, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah (hereafter LDS archives); see also B. H. Roberts, A Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 6 vols. (Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 1965), 3:386-87; hereafter CHC. Also Elden Jay Watson, ed., Manuscript History of Brigham Young, 1846-1847 (Salt Lake City: Elden J. Watson, 1971), 556; William Clayton, William Clayton’s Journal, ed. Clayton Family Association (Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1921), 202-203; D. Michael Quinn, “Latter-day Saint Prayer Circles,” Brigham Young University Studies 19 (Fall 1978): 79-105.

2. Journal of Discourses, 26 vols. (Liverpool, Eng.: Latter-day Saints’ Bookseller’s Depot, 1854-86), 2:31 (emphasis in original); see also 2:315; 5:133; 6:63, 154-55; 8:339; 9:25-26, 91; 10:172; 11:27; 18:132; 19:250 (hereafter JD).

3. Laureen R. Jaussi and Gloria D. Chaston, comps., Register of LDS Church Records (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1968), 366-67, cited in James Dwight Tingen, “The Endowment House: 1855-1889,” Dec. 1974, privately circulated. Also Richard Cowan, Temple Building--Ancient and Modern (Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 1971), 29.

4. Scott Kenney, ed., Wilford Woodruff’s Journal, 9 vols. (Midvale, UT: Signature Books, 1984), 6 (26 Dec. 1866): 307-308.

5. JD 2:32.

6. Heber C. Kimball to Bishop Evans, 19 May 1856, LDS archives.

7. Parawon Historical Record, 13, 16 Mar. 1856, LDS archives.

8. Kenney, 7 (26 Dec. 1866): 308.

9. Journal History, 31 Jan. 1868, LDS archives; also “Manuscript History of Brigham Young” for 1868, 131.

10. Kenney, 5 (26 Nov. 1857): 124.

11. Ibid., 5 (18 Dec. 1857): 139.

12. Ibid., 6 (26 Dec. 1866): 307.

13. Ibid.

14. Ibid.; a decade later Brigham Young repeated these instructions to Wilford Woodruff (ibid., 7 [15 Jan. 1877]: 322).

15. Ibid., 6 (30-31 Dec. 1866): 309-10; compare Elijah Larkin Journal, 31 Dec. 1866, Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

16. The cited names are found in Wilford Woodruff’s journal, 31 Dec. 1866, 1-4 Jan. 1867 (6:310-17). In addition to Woodruff’s entries for 1867, other private journals and diaries of this period record the administration of second anointings. These include Elijah Larkin journal (31 Dec. 1866), Thomas Evans Jeremy journal (30 Apr. 1867), Jesse N. Smith journal (3 June 1867), John Lyman Smith diary (30 July 1867), L. John Nuttall journal (23 Sept. 1867), Lorenzo Brown diary (2 Oct. 1867), Sylvester H. Earl diary (1867), John Lyman Smith diary (23 Oct. 1868), Henry Eyring journal (24 Feb. 1877), J. D. T. McAllister journal (10 Apr. 1877), Samuel H. Rogers journal (1 Feb. 1878), Oliver B. Huntington journal (12 Jan. 1881), Samuel Bateman diary (30 Nov. 1887), and Thomas Memmott journal (13 Dec. 1889 and 13 Feb. 1890); all of these are either at the Lee Library or LDS archives. An important published account of the second anointing is Mrs. T. B. H. (Fanny) Stenhouse, An Englishwoman in Utah: The Story of a Life’s Experience in Mormonism (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1880), 320-21.

17. Kenney, 6 (2 Jan. 1867): 316.

18. Ibid., 6 (26 Feb.

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