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It was a practice for any one who was to be ordained
to the ministry to have the vo[ice?] of the branch of the Church in which
they were living before they were recommended to the high Council for ordination.
It was at one of these meetings that Brother Lyman Wight called a vote
to recommend Brother Stephen Winchester Heman
T. Hide [Hyde] and myself
[14] to the high Council for ordination. It was a full vote and at the
next meeting of the high Council we were recommended by Lyman Wight, Amasa
Lyman Elias Higby, and Zebedee Coltan [Coltrin] all high Priests to the
council. And there was a vote taken and carried by the high Council to
ordain us and we were ordained on the 5th day of November 1834. |
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WWJ 1:13–14.
Why two meetings?
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To whome these presents may Come |
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WWJ 1:14. |
Membership certified
Ordained as a priest
May perform ordinances in the House of the Lord. |
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This certifies that Willford Woodruff has been receieved
into this Church of latter day Saints organized on the 6th day of Aprail
1830, and has been ordained a priest according to the rules and regulations
of Said Church and is duly authorized to preach the gospel and act in all
the ordinances of the house of the Lord agreeable to the authority of that
office. |
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No mention of priesthood. |
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Given by the directions of a council of elders assembled
in Clay County Missouri Nov 5th 1834. |
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John Whitmer |
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Wilford Woodruff
Wilford Woodruff (h1)
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