just me wrote:She petitioned BY to be sealed to Joseph Smith as his adopted daughter while in Utah. She was denied and then they eventually decided to create a special ordinance where a proxy stood in for her and she was sealed to Joseph Smith as his servant.
Praise to the man indeed.
what exactly does an eternal servant do? Are there dirty bathrooms and windows to be cleaned in the celestial kingdom?
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just me wrote:She petitioned BY to be sealed to Joseph Smith as his adopted daughter while in Utah. She was denied and then they eventually decided to create a special ordinance where a proxy stood in for her and she was sealed to Joseph Smith as his servant.
Praise to the man indeed.
what exactly does an eternal servant do? Are there dirty bathrooms and windows to be cleaned in the celestial kingdom?
Help out with all the diapers.
~Those who benefit from the status quo always attribute inequities to the choices of the underdog.~Ann Crittenden ~The Goddess is not separate from the world-She is the world and all things in it.~
just me wrote:She petitioned BY to be sealed to Joseph Smith as his adopted daughter while in Utah. She was denied and then they eventually decided to create a special ordinance where a proxy stood in for her and she was sealed to Joseph Smith as his servant.
Praise to the man indeed.
what exactly does an eternal servant do? Are there dirty bathrooms and windows to be cleaned in the celestial kingdom?
Well, we know what he did with his pretty young servants when he was alive.
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.
harmony wrote:Jane Manning James. Anyone know her story? Looks to me like she dodged the bullet, knowing what we do about some of the other girls who were "adopted" by Joseph.
Yes. I believe you can find it on the black LDS website.
She petitioned BY to be sealed to Joseph Smith as his adopted daughter while in Utah. She was denied and then they eventually decided to create a special ordinance where a proxy stood in for her and she was sealed to Joseph Smith as his servant.
She also asked for a marital sealing for herself. She asked to be sealed to one of the few black men who had been a priesthood holder before the ban was enforced, If I recall correctly.
So it wasn't Joseph who offered to adopt her?
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.
Buffalo wrote: Actually, apparently God always trails about 20 years behind. Just like Utah fashion.
When I lived in Utah I used to wear a shirt that said:
"Welcome to Utah, please set your clock back twenty years."
That one would get some laughs, while my "Welcome to Utah, Land of the Funny Underwear" would get cold stares.
"Any over-ritualized religion since the dawn of time can make its priests say yes, we know, it is rotten, and hard luck, but just do as we say, keep at the ritual, stick it out, give us your money and you'll end up with the angels in heaven for evermore."
harmony wrote:So it wasn't Joseph who offered to adopt her?
Yes it was. She declined while he was alive because she didn't understand what it meant. After his death she reconsidered and decided she would like to be sealed to him. She had to petition Brigham Young to make it happen.
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~Those who benefit from the status quo always attribute inequities to the choices of the underdog.~Ann Crittenden ~The Goddess is not separate from the world-She is the world and all things in it.~