I wish you to understand this subject for it is important & if you will recieve it this is the spirit of Elijah that we redeem our dead & connect ourselves with our fathers which are in heaven & seal up our dead to come forth in the first resurrection & here we want the power of Elijah to seal those who dwell on earth to those which dwell in heaven this is the power of Elijah & the keys

The world opposes the principle of Revelation And does not wish man to obtain knowledge in that way, but what Earthly Father that feels interested in the welfare of his children but what desires to teach his children & reveal to them the knowledge He possesses And would feel interested in there Advancement so with the Lord He gives gifts & knowledge

many have arisen in these last days professing to be Elijah the prophet but they have bro- ught forth Nothing of interest to the people will any one tell me what the office of Elijah the prophet was to be to the Earth when he come the answer is to turn the hearts of the children to their fathers & the fathers to the children lest I come & smite the whole Earth with a curse the answer

these keys of Elijah confirmed upon the president of the church are to seal the fathers to their children the children to their fathers, & to assist in welding the great link connecting evry gospel dispensation togeth- er

Some ordinances cannot Be given without A temple All children Born Before Parents are sealed to the Altar will have to be sealed to their Parents in order to make them Legal heirs those who are Born after the parents are sealed are legal heirs. Man also will have to be sealed to Man untill the chain is united from Father Adam down to the last saint this will be the work of the Millennium & Joseph Smith will be the Man to attend to it or to dictate it He will not administer in person But He will receive his resurrected Body & will dictate to those who dwell in the flesh & tell what is to be done for He is the Last Prophet who is called to lay the foundation of the great Last dispensation of the fullness of times

Brethren & sisters you are of the seed of Abraham & you should live your legio religion that you may claim the promises of Abraham This priesthood will turn the hearts of the children to the Ancient Fathers & the children to the Fathers now & those which are to come will be made perfect this chain must not broaken for mankind cannot be saved any other way. This Priesthood must be linked together so that all the children may be linked to Father Adam. It may be asked when will this work be done, it will be done in Temples in our day & in the days of our children.

Oct 27, 1880 Ordination of John Henry Smith to the Apostleship to be one of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles Ordained under the hands of President John Taylor, George Q. Cannon, & Joseph F Smith of the Presidency, and Wilford Woodruff who was Mouth in Ordaining, also Orson Pratt, Erastus Snow, Franklin D Richards, & Brigham Young of the Quorum of the Twelve and D H Wells councillor to the Twelve Brother John Henry Smith in the name of the Lord Juesus Christ and by the Authority of the Holy Priesthood And Apostleship confered upon us we lay our hands upon your head, and we ordain you an Apostle in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and as A member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, And we seal upon you all the power And Authority to Administer in all the Ordinances of the House of God agreeable to this Office Even the Apostleship which is the Highest Authority Ever confered and sealed upon the sons of men in the flesh. And we pray God to cloth you with the power of this Apostleship. with the power of God, That your mind may be open to comprehend & understand your relationship to God, your relationship to your Brethren, your relationship to the Church and Kingdom of God, in relation to this world, and in relation to the responsibility which now rest upon you. And we say unto you The Eyes of God & his Son Jesus Christ isand of the Heavenly Hosts, and of Joseph Smith and the Apostles, And the Eyes of your Father who are behingd the veil are upon you, and there is rejoicing in Heaven becaus you are one of the Sons of the Prophets & Apostles and have come forth to take upon yourself the Holy Apostleship and we say unto you be humble before God and seek for the Holy spirit

the most of my time since your letter came to hand has been devoted to the care of my babe for the destroyer has tried hard to get him from me but I feell as though I had the best right to him and I claimed him at the hand of God and he was pleased to spare him unto me which I consider to be another token that he has not forgotten me— may I ever be thankful for his mercies to me— he was taken with the hooping cough and then the croup (which is prestness for breath) set in which brought him to the gates of death – O! thought I how can I give up my babe even in in the absence of his father who had never seen him I felt as thou gh I could not endure it so I and one of the sisters that lives near me took hold on faith with all the powers of mind that we could muster and the Lord heard and answered us

Amid the great variety of Business, Duties & Reflections & meditations that have surrounded me During the Last few months their is one subject that at times has rested with wait upon my mind viz. the Duties we owe towards our Fathers. There was a prin- cipl in exercise in the days of the par^t^riarch's & prophets & ancients Saints in Regard to their fathers whether they were Dead or alive that is not Regarded among the gentiles at the present day Anciently even the burying place of the fathers was held most sacred & Esspecially a burial of the Saints was much Desired & sought for as In the case of Joseph he made his kindred or children covenant to ta⬦ Before he died to take his bones to Canaan & bury them with his Fathers their were certain Reasons why Joseph wished his body to be laid with his fathers & the Righteous; one of which it may not be improper to mention, that when the trump shall sound & the graves be opened that they may have the privilege of first shaking hands with their Fathers & their children amid the salutations of O my Father & O my Son; a Blessing & privilege which the Ancients sought for in their day & generation was a Burial with the wrighteous

they must also believe that this dis- pensation comprehends all the great works of all former dispensations; and that the children must gather as did the fathers; must build a house, where they may be en- dued, and be found together worshipping and doing as their fathers did, when Jehovah spake and the angels of heaven ministered unto them