Elder David W. Patten requested our prayers in behalf of his wife, that she might be healed. I offered up a prayer for her recovery, and the assembly responded, Amen.
President Rigdon arose and made some very appropriate remarks touching the endowment, and dismissed the assembly by prayer.
The Prophet's Joy.
This has been one of the best days that I ever spent; there has been an entire union of feeling expressed in all our proceedings this day; and the spirit of the God of Israel has rested upon us in mighty power, and it has been good for us to be here in this heavenly place in Christ Jesus; and although much fatigued with the labors of the day, yet my spiritual reward has been very great indeed. Spent the evening at home.
The Coming of Professor Seixas.
Thursday, 14.—Nine o'clock. Met the Hebrew class at the school room in the Temple, and made some arrangements about our anticipated teacher, Mr. Joshua Seixas, of Hudson, Ohio.
I then returned to the council room in the printing office, to meet my colleagues who were appointed with myself to draft rules and regulations to be observed in the "House of the Lord," in Kirtland, built by the Church of the Latter-day Saints, in the year of our Lord 1834, which rules are as follows:
Rules and Regulations to be Observed in the House of the Lord in Kirtland.
I. It is according to the rules and regulations of all regularly and legally organized bodies to have a president to keep order.
II. The bodies thus organized are under obligation to be in subjection to that authority.
III. When a congregation assembles in this house, it shall submit to the following rules, that due respect may be paid to the order of worship, viz.:
1st. No man shall be interrupted who is appointed to speak by the Presidency of the Church, by any disorderly person or persons in the congregation, by whispering, by laughing, by talking, by menacing gestures, by getting up and running out in a disorderly manner, or by offering indignity to the manner of worship, or the religion, or to any officer of said Church while officiating in his office, in anywise whatsoever, by any display of ill manners or ill breeding, from old or young, rich or poor, male or female, bond or free, black or white, believer or unbeliever. And if any of the above insults are offered, such measures will be taken as are lawful, to punish the aggressor or aggressors, and eject them from the house.
2nd. An insult offered to the presiding Elder of said Church shall be considered an insult to the whole body. Also, an insult offered to any of the officers of said Church, while officiating, shall be considered an insult to the whole body.
3rd. All persons are prohibited from going up the stairs in times of worship.
4th. All persons are prohibited from exploring the house, except waited upon by a person appointed for that purpose.
5th. All persons are prohibited from going into the several pulpits, except the officers who are appointed to officiate in the same.
6th. Ail persons are prohibited from cutting, marking or marring the inside or outside of the house with a knife, pencil, or any other instrument whatever, under pain of such penalty as the law shall inflict.
7th. All children are prohibited from assembling in the house, above or below, or any part of it, to play, or for recreation, at any time: and all parents, guardians, or masters, shall be amenable for all damage that shall accrue in consequence of their children's misconduct.
8th. All persons, whether believers or unbelievers, shall be treated with due respect by the authorities of the Church.
9th. No imposition shall be practiced upon any members of the Church, by depriving them of their rights in the house.
Council adjourned sine die.
Return of Oliver Cowdery from Columbus, Ohio.