Brigham Young "administered to Parley P. Pratt his second anointing." Joseph Smith remarks, "Concerning Parley P. Pratt that He had no wife sealed to him for Eternity [Pratt's wife 'had a former Husband and did not wish to be sealed to Parl[e]y for Eternity'] and asked if their was any harm for him to have another wife for time & Eternity as He would want a wife in the Resurrection or els[e] his glory would be Clip[p]ed." Joseph also says, "I have tried for a number of years to get the minds of the saints prepared to receive the things of God, but we frequently see some of them after suffereing all they have for the work of God will fly to peaces like glass as soon as any thing Comes that is Contrary to their traditions. They cannot stand the fire at all." Joseph Smith had been secretly teaching the doctrine of plural marriage and receiving opposition to it from some Mormons.
[Source: http://www.advent-adam.com/jakestand.html (cached, based on http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies)]
Original Sources: Manuscript History of Brigham Young, Wilford Woodruff Journal, and HC 6:185. Sunday.
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