Letter to Angus Munn Cannon, 24 January 1888
President Angus M. Cannon,
Salt Lake Stake.
Dear Brother:—
Your letter in reply to mine upon the subject of second anointings for Brother
George Lufkin and Brother James Townsend, has been received and considered.
Whoever attends to the ordinances for Brother Townsend should certainly take
his last wife to the Temple with them, so that she might receive the blessing
as well as the deceased wife. Is Brother George Lufkin the proper person, who
is as worthy as he, who is nearer as heir to the Townsend Family than he is?
If he is the proper party to represent Brother Townsend, under the circumstances
you are at liberty to inform him that if he will get his recommendation properly
signed, I will endorse it for him to receive his second anointing and to act for
Brother Townsend, on condition, also, that he takes Brother Townsend's surviving
wife with him.
Now, in relation to the other subject which you mention—the cases of worthy men
and women who are aged who have not had their second anointings, and who, are
waiting to have this privilege accorded to them, being counseled by, you not to
ask for the privilege. We think such cases deserve consideration, and where you
know of aged men and woman who are worthy to receive this ordinance, I would like
you to forward their names to me for consideration; and these that we decide as
proper persons to receive this ordinance can have their recommendations signed
to that effect.
With kind regards,
I am
Your Brother,
W. Woodruff.
