28 September 1843 • Thursday

Thursday Sept 28 1833 1843 10 A.M. in the street going toward printing office. 11½ A,M,M Council over the Store. Hyrum [Smith]. Newell [Newel K. Whitney]. Geo. [Miller] W.d— [Willard Richards] Wa.d [washed] & A[[nointed]]215 J. S. [John Smith] J. T. [John Taylor] A. L. [Amasa Lyman] L. W. [Lucien Woodworth] J. M. B. [John M. Bernhisel]— ant [anointed] at 7 eve met at the Mansion upper room front. with W. L. [William Law] W. M. [William Marks] Baurak Ale216 was by common cons[e]nt. & unanimous voice chosen presidnt of the quorum. & anointed & ordd. [ordained] to the highest and holiest order of the priesthood.—217 (&. Companion218 <​d[itt]o.—​>) Joseph Smith. Hyrum Smith. Geo Miller. N. K. Whitny— Willad Richars—— John Smith, John Taylor, Amasa Lyman. Lucien Woodworth. J. M. Bernhisel—— Wm Law. Wm Marks.— President led in prayer. that his days might be prolonged. have domin[io]n over his enemies.219 all their hosehods [households] be blessed and all the chu[rc]h & wo[r]ld. [p. [110]]

216 “Baurak Ale” was a substitute name for JS. (Doctrine and Covenants, 1844 ed., 387–388, 391, 392; Orson Pratt, in Journal of Discourses, 16 Aug. 1873, 16:156; see also “Substitute Words in the 1835 and 1844 Editions of the Doctrine and Covenants.”)

217 See Woodruff, Historian’s Private Journal, 26 Feb. 1867.

218 Emma Smith. From this point on, women regularly attended meetings of this council that received ordinances that would later be performed in the Nauvoo temple.

219 Three weeks earlier, participants at an anti-Mormon meeting in Carthage directed the meeting’s president to ask the governor of Missouri to initiate another order for JS’s arrest. At the time, JS was also concerned that Sidney Rigdon had been collaborating with people intent on taking JS to Missouri. (JS, Journal, 13 and 27 Aug. 1843; 15 Sept. 1843.)