29 April 1842. Friday

Friday 29 was made manifest a conspiracy again[s]t the peace of his household 196

30 April 1842. Saturday

Saturday 30 visiting with Judge [James] Adams.-- & his own family. & signed deeds to James & Charles Ivins. & many others. 197

1 May 1842. Sunday

May Sunday 1 preached in the grove on the keys of the kingdom charity &c.-- The keys are certain signs & words by which false spirits & personages may be detected from true.-- which cannot be revealed to the Elders till the Temple is completed.-- The rich can only get them in the Temple. The poo may get them on the Mountain top as did moses. The rich cannot be saved without cha[r]ity. giving to feed the poor. when & how God requires as well as building. There are signs in heaven earth & hell. the elders must know them all to be endued with power. to finish their work & prevent imposition. The devil knows many signs. but does not know the sign of the son of man. or Jesus. No one can truly say he knows God until he has handled something. & these this can only be in the holiest of Holies.

2-3 May 1842. Monday- Tuesday

Monday 2) with his family

Tuesday 3)

4 May 1842. Wednesday

Wednesday 4 In council in the Presidents & General offices with Judge [James] Adams. Hyram [Hyrum] Smith Newel K. Whitney. William Marks, Wm Law. George Miller. Brigham Young. Heber C. Kimball & Willard Richards. [illegible] & giving certain instructions concerning the priesthood. [illegible] &c on the Aronic Priesthood to the first [illegible] continueing through the day.198

5 May 1842. Thursday

Thursday 5 Judge [James] Adams left for Springfield the others continued in Council as the day previous & Joseph & Hyrum [Smith] were [illegible]199 [p.94]

6 May 1842. Friday

Friday 6 Attended the officer drill in the morning.200 & visited Lyman Wight who was sick

7 May 1842. Saturday

Saturday 7 Commanded the Nauvoo Legion through the day.201 the Legion one year since consisted of two 6 companies. to day of 26 companies amounting to about Two thousand Troops. The consolidatd Staff of the Legion partook of an excellent dinner at the house of the commander in chief202 between

196. The initials "J.C.B." were later inserted lightly in the journal by Willard Richards and probably refer to John C. Bennett.

197. Land sales to Charles Ivins, James Ivins, George W. Harris, Benjamin Bird, Lavina Murphy, and Jesse Turpin were recorded under this date. (Trustees Land Book A, White Purchase, block 117, lots 3-4; block 118, lot 1;block 140, lot 3; Hotchkiss Purchase, block 14, lot 4; block 100, lot 4; block 102, lots 2-4; block 109, lots 1,4.)

198. These instructions constituted a substantial change to the "endowment" as understood and practiced earlier by members of the church in Kirtland, Ohio. Richards, who participated in the events of 4 May 1842, made the brief summary of JS's daylong temple instruction in this journal entry and also prepared the following description of the new endowment, which later became part of the JS multivolume manuscript history: JS instructed those present "in the principles and order of the priesthood, attending to washing &anointings, endowments, and the communications of keys, pertaining to the Aronic Priesthood, and so on to the highe[s]t order of the Melchisedec Priesthood, setting forth the order pertaining to the Ancient of days & all those plans & principles by which any one is enabled to secure the fulness of those blessings which has been prepared for the chu[r]ch of the first-born, and come up, and abide in the prese[n]ce of Eloheim in the eternal worlds. In this council was institud the Ancient order of things for the fir[s]t time in these last days." According to Richards, JS's instructions "were of things spiritual, and to be received only by the spiritual minded: and there was nothing made known to these men but what will be made known to all saints, of the last days, so soon as they are prepared to receive, and a proper place is prepared to communicate them, even to the weakest of the saints; therefore let the saints be diligent in building the Temple and all houses which they have been or shall hereafter be commanded of God to build, and wait their time with patience, in all meekness faith, & perseverance unto the end, knowing assuredly that all these things refer[re]d to in this council are always governd by the principles of Revelation." (Historian's Office, JS History, draft notes, 4 May 1842; see also JS History, vol. C-1, 1328-1329.)

199. Willard Richards's notes of this meeting indicate that JS and Hyrum Smith, having officiated in the ordinance the previous day for others, were endowed on this date. (Historian's Office, JS History, draft notes, 5 May 1842; see also JS History, vol. C-1. 1329.)

200. The legion was required to hold an officer drill on the Thursday and Friday preceding a general parade. (Nauvoo Legion Minute Book, 12 Mar. 1842, 12.)

201. On 12 March 1842, the Nauvoo Legion court martial passed an ordinance requiring the legion to hold a general parade on the first Saturday of May and September. (Nauvoo Legion Minute Book, 12 March 1842, 12.

202. JS.