Appendix B: Blessing of Those Who Assisted in Building the House of the Lord at Kirtland
March 7 [1835].—This day a meeting of the Church of Latter-day Saints was called for the purpose of blessing, in the name of the Lord, those who have heretofore assisted in building, by their labor and other means, the House of the Lord in this place.
The morning was occupied by President Joseph Smith, Jun., in teaching the Church the propriety and necessity of purifying itself. In the afternoon, the names of those who had assisted to build the house were taken, and further instructions received from President Smith. He said that those who had distinguished themselves thus far by consecrating to the upbuilding of the House of the Lord, as well as laboring thereon, were to be remembered; that those who build it should own it, and have the control of it.
After further remarks, those who performed the labor on the building voted unanimously that they would continue to labor thereon, till the house should be completed.
President Sidney Rigdon was appointed to lay on hands and bestow blessings in the name of the Lord.
The Presidents were blessed; and Reynolds Cahoon, Hyrum Smith, and Jared Carter, the building committee, though the last two were not present, yet their rights in the house were preserved.
The following are the names of those who were blessed in consequence of their labor on the house of the Lord in Kirtland, and those who consecrated to its upbuilding:
| Sidney Rigdon, | Harvey Smith, |
| Joseph Smith, Jun., | Isaac Cleveland, |
| F. G. Williams, | William Barker, |
| Joseph Smith, Sen., | Samuel S. Brannan, |
| Oliver Cowdery, | John Wheeler, |
| Newel K. Whitney, | Henry Baker, |
| Reynolds Cahoon, | William Fisk, |
| Hyrum Smith | Henry Wilcox, |
| Jared Carter, | George Gee, |
| Jacob Bump, | Lorenzo D. Young, |
| Artemus Millet, | David Clough, |
| Alpheus Cutler, | James Durfee, |
| Asa Lyman, | Joseph Coe, |
| Josiah Butterfield, | Thomas Gates, |
| Noah Packard, | Loren Babbitt, |
| James Putnam, | Blake Baldwin, |
| Isaac Hill, | Oliver Higley |
| Maleum C. Davis, | Evan M. Greene, |
| Jaman Aldrich, | Levi Osgood, |
| John Young, Sen., | Alpheus Harmon, |
| Ezra Strong, | Joseph C. Kingsbury, |
| Joel McWithy, | Ira Bond, |
| Matthew Foy, | Z. H. Brewster, |
| James Randall, | Samuel Thomson, |
| John P. Greene, | John Ormsby, |
| Aaron E. Lyon, | Luman Carter, |
| Thomas Burdick, | John Smith, |
| Truman Wait, | Samuel H. Smith, |
| Edmund Bosley, | Thomas Fisher, |
| William Bosley, | Starry Fisk, |
| William Perry, | Amos R. Orton, |
| Don Carlos Smith, | Gad Yale, |
| Shadrach Roundy, | John Johnson, |
| Joel Johnson, | John Tanner, |
| Edmund Durfee, Sen., | Henry G. Sherwood, |
| Edmund Durfee, Jun., | Sidney Tanner, |
| Gideon Ormsby, | Joseph Tippits, |
| Albert Miner, | Robert Quigley, |
| Ira Ames, | Erastus Babbitt, |
| Salmon Gee, | Samuel Canfield, |
| Peter Shirts, | Phineas H. Young, |
| Isaac Hubbard, | Samuel Rolfe, |
| Horace Burgess, | Calvin W. Stoddard, |
| Dexter Stillman, | Josiah Fuller, |
| Amos F. Herrick, | Erastus Rudd, |
| Mayhew Hillman, | Isaac G. Bishop, |
| William Carter, | Roswell Murray, |
| William Burgess, | Benjamin Wells, |
| Giles Cook, | Nehemiah Harman, |
| Almon Sherman, | Oliver Wetherby, |
| Warren Smith, | Thomas Hancock, |
| Moses Bailey, | Josuah Grant, |
| Sebe Ives, | William Draper, |
| Andrew H. Aldrich, | Ransom Van Leuven, |
| Ebenezar Jennings, | Tunis Rappellee, |
| Oliver Granger, | John Reed, |
| Orson Johnson, | Samuel Wilcox, |
| James Lake, | Benjamin Johnson, |
| William Redfield, | Joseph B. Bosworth. |
| Cyrus Lake, |
The blessings and ordinations of particular individuals of the foregoing were as follows:—Reynolds Cahoon, Jacob Bump, and Artemus Millet, were blessed with the blessings of heaven and a right in the house of the Lord in Kirtland, agreeable to the labor they had performed thereon, and the means they had contributed.
Alpheus Cutler, Asa Lyman, Josiah Butterfield, Noah Packard, Jonas Putnam, and Isaac Hill received the same blessing. The blessing referred to was according to each man’s labor or donation.
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