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the City of Joseph in prominence and importance is the house of Joseph, hotel and residence, called the Nauvoo House,^ which is to the material man as the

ghost; even so, amen.' Times and Seasona, ii. 376. A revelation vs^as published in Jan. 1841. ' Let all my saints come from afar, and send ye swift messen- gers, yea, chosen messengers, and say unto them: " Come ye with all your gold and your silver and your precious stones, and with all your antiquities, and v.ith all who have knowledge of antiquities, that will come, may come; and bring the box-tree and the fir-tree and the pine-tree, together with all the precious trees of the earth, and with iron and with copper and with brass and with zinc and with all your precious things of the earth, and build a house to my name for the most high to dwell therein.'" Smucker's Hi>^t. Mor., 132. For reference notes on temple: minutes of conference, relating to building a church, etc., see Times and Seasons, i. 185-7. Laying the foundation stone, Id. , ii. 375-7, 3S0-2; Mackay's The Mormons, 118-20; Smuckers Hist. Mor., 133. Laying of the capstone, Times and Seasons, vi. 926. Progress of its building, /(/., iii. 775-6; iv. 10-11; The Prophet, in Mackay's The Mormons, 189-91. Description of the temple with cut, Smncker's Mormons, 129; Ferris' The Mor- mons, 137-9; Pratt's Autobiography, 378; without cut, Smucker's Mormons, 202-A; Bertrand Mem. Morm., 61; Cincinnati Times; Deseret News, March 22, 1876; church claims. Times and Seasons, iii. 735-8; 767-9; v. 618-20; Kim- ball, in Times and Seasons, vi. 972-3; misappropriation of funds, ITaWs Mor- monism Exposed, 7-8. 'One of the most powerful levers which he had in- vented for moving his disciples in temple buikling was the doctrine of baptism for the dead... which baptism must be performed in the temple; no other place would give it the requisite efficacy.' Ferris' The Mormons, 97-8. 'An- other mode of making the dimes was that of giving the blessing, as it was said, from heaven. This was the sole province of the patriarch, which office, till his death, was exercised by Hiram. Smith. No blessing could be obtained for less than one dollar; but he frequently received for this service twenty, thirty, and even forty dollars.' Hall's Mormonism, 22.

^It was ordered by revelation given to Joseph Smith, Jan. 19, 1841, that a hotel should be built and called the Nauvoo House; that it should be erected under the supervision of George Miller, Lyman Wight, John Snider, and Peter Haws, one of whom should be president of a joint-stock company to be formed for the pui-pose, and that stock subscriptions should be for not less than lifty dollars nor more than fifteen thousand dollars by any one man, and that only by a believer in the book of Mormon. Vinson Knight, Hyrum Smith, Isaac Galland, William Marks, Henry G. Sherwood, and Will- iam Law were dii-ected by name to take stock. 'And now I say unto you, as pertaining to my boarding-house, which I have commanded you to build for the boarding of strangers, let it be built unto my name, and let my name be named upon it, and let my servant Joseph and his house have place therein from generation to generation.' The Nauvoo House Associaton was incor- porated Feb. 23, 1841, by George Miller, L5'man Wight, John Snider, and Peter Haws, and associates. Copy of act in Bennett's Hist. Saints, 204^5. Plan of city, with cuts of temple, baptismal font, and Nauvoo Legion, with description, in Bennett's Hist. Saints, 188-91, which is quite erroneous, the building being then not completed. I have taken this account chiefly from Phelps' description in The Prophet. The Nauvoo House, says Bennett, 'though intended chiefly for thei reception and entertaimnent of strangers and travellers, contains, or rather when completed is to contain, a splendid suite of apartments for the special accommodation of the prophet Joe Smith, and heirs and descendants forever.' Cut of temple, and best description of Nauvoo institutions, in Mackay's The Mormons, 115, 190-1. The Nauvoo House, in form of an L, had a frontage on two streets of 120 feet each, by a depth of 40 feet; the estimated cost was §100,000. Times and Seasons, ii. 369. Another building opened in Nov. 1843 was the Nauvoo mansion. Hist. Utah. 10