J. H. Beadle describes the endowment, and asserts that its penalties were for atoning for sins.

Date
1870
Type
Book
Source
J. H. Beadle
Critic
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Unsourced
Reference

J. H. Beadle, Life in Utah: or the Mysteries and Crimes of Mormonism, Being an Expose of the Secret Rites and Ceremonies of the Latter Day Saints (Philadelphia, Pa.: National Publishing Company, 1870), 494

Scribe/Publisher
National Publishing Company
People
J. H. Beadle
Audience
General Public
Transcription

The candidates then kneel and join a solemn oath, repeating it slowly after Adam: That they will preserve the secret inviolably, under penalty of being brought to the block, and having their blood spilt upon the ground in atonement for their sin;

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