170 years ago today - Jan 22, 1846

George Harris stood as proxy for slain Mormon founder Joseph Smith and gave his own wife Lucinda Pendleton Morgan Harris "to Jos. Smith (deceased . . .) for time & all Eternity." Harris was then sealed to Lucinda as her husband until death.

Lyndon Cook notes that Lucinda had already been "Sealed for time and eternity to Joseph Smith Jr 1841-1842 Nauvoo . . . ," making this 1846 tableau a "Repeat sealing for time and eternity to Joseph Smith deceased . . ."

"The vicarious aspect of this ceremony," adds Cook, "is repetitious inasmuch as Lucinda Pendleton Morgan was antecedently sealed for time and eternity to Joseph Smith Jr deceased."

This is consistent with the repeat proxy sealings of another plural wife of Joseph Smith, Martha McBride Knight ...

Three days earlier, on January 19, 1846, Lucinda was recorded in the Book of Anointings ... under the name of "Lucinda Pendleton Smith." The same record shows ... Martha Knight ... recorded at her "Second Anointing" as "Martha Smith."

[Source: Grunder, Rick, Mormon Parallels: A Bibliographic Source; Lyndon W. Cook, Nauvoo Marriages, Proxy Sealings, 1843-1846 (Provo, Utah: Grandin Book Company, 2004), entry 118, pp. 110-11; Lisle G. Brown, Nauvoo Sealings, Adoptions, and Anointings: A Comprehensive Register of Persons Receiving LDS Temple Ordinances, 1841-1846. Salt Lake City: The Smith-Pettit Foundation, 2006, 282 n. 269; Nauvoo Sealings, 283 n. 277]

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  1. 2 Nephi 28:

    [9] Yea, and there shall be many which shall teach after this manner, FALSE AND VAIN AND FOOLISH DOCTRINES, and shall be puffed up in their hearts, and shall seek deep to hide their counsels from the Lord; and their works shall be in the dark.

    [10] And the blood of the saints shall cry from the ground against them.

    [11] Yea, they have all gone out of the way; they have become corrupted.

    [12] Because of pride, and because of false teachers, and false doctrine, their churches have become corrupted, and their churches are lifted up; because of pride they are puffed up.

    [13] They rob the poor because of their fine sanctuaries; they rob the poor because of their fine clothing; and they persecute the meek and the poor in heart, because in their pride they are puffed up.

    [14] They wear stiff necks and high heads; yea, and because of pride, and wickedness, and abominations, and whoredoms, they have all gone astray save it be a few, who are the humble followers of Christ; nevertheless, they are led, that in many instances they do err because they are taught by the precepts of men.

    [15] O the wise, and the learned, and the rich, that are puffed up in the pride of their hearts, and ALL THOSE WHO PREACH FALSE DOCTRINES, AND ALL THOSE WHO COMMIT WHOREDOMS, AND PERVERT THE RIGHT WAY OF THE LORD, WO, WO, WO BE UNTO THEM, SAITH THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, FOR THEY SHALL BE THRUST DOWN TO HELL!

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