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[Smith Diary] Bro Adams has gone to open up a more effectual door for the dead.-- ¶ Flesh and blood cannot go there but flesh and bones quickened by the Spirit of God can If we would be sober, & watch in fasting and prayer, God would turn away sickness from our midst. Hasten the work of the temple. and all the work of the Last Days. Let the elders & saints do away light mindedness and be sober.-- [Times and Seasons] 
James Adams Received Endowment He had anointed him to the Patriarchal power--to receive the keys of knowledge, and power, by revelation to himself. He had had revelations concerning his departure, and had gone to a more important work--of opening up a more effectual door for the dead. The spirits of the just are exalted to a greater and more glorious work--hence they are blessed in departing hence.2 Spirits of Just can Observe Us Enveloped in flaming fire, they are not far from us, and know and understand our thoughts, feelings and motions, and are often pained therewith. ¶ President Smith concluded with exhortations to the church to renew their exertions to forward the work of the Temple, and in walking before the Lord in soberness and righteousness. ¶ Such is a faint outline of the discourse of President Joseph Smith, which was delivered with his usual feeling and pathos; and was listened to with the most profound and eager attention by the multitude, who hung upon his instructions, anxious to learn and pursue the path of eternal life.
October 9, 1843
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