Eliza Snow records Joseph using Masonic language to describe the Relief Society's progress.
- Type
- Meeting Minutes / Notes
- Hearsay
- Scribed Paraphrase
- Reference
Nauvoo Relief Society Minutes, March 31, 1842, The Joseph Smith Papers website, accessed May 6, 2021
- Audience
- Relief Society
- Transcription
propos’d that the Society go into a close examination of every candidate— that they were going too fast— that the Society should grow up by degrees.
- Source Link
- https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/paper-summary/nauvoo-relief-society-minute-book/19#facts
- BHR Staff Commentary
After the surge of membership petitioners in December 1841, Joseph Smith sought to restrain the enthusiasm into the sacred orders of temple ordinances and sacred societies (e.g., the Relief Society). He instructed the Relief Society that they should grow "by degrees" which is similar to the language used in Freemasonry.
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