baptisms shall be acceptable unto me. But behold, at the end of this appointment, your baptisms shall not be acceptable unto me; and if you do not these things at the end of the appointment, ye shall be rejected as a Church with your dead, saith the Lord your God. For verily I say unto you, that after you have had sufficient time to build a house to me, wherein the ordinance of baptizing for the dead belongeth, and for which the same was instituted from before the foundation of the world, your baptisms for your dead can not be acceptable unto me; for therein are the keys of the holy priesthood, ordained, that you may receive honor and glory."
It was quite as essential that the Mormon prophet should be provided for as the Mormon Deity. Accordingly, this same revelation provides for the erection of a tavern, in which Joseph was to have his head-quarters.
"Therefore let my servant Joseph, and his seed after him, have place in that house from generation to generation, forever and ever, saith the Lord; and let the name of that house be called the Nauvoo House; and let it be a delightful habitation for man, and a resting-place for the weary traveler," &c.
This change in the character of the prophet's residence is significant of his growing habits of intemperance and licentiousness—it was only two years subsequent that his revelation in favor of polygamy was concocted—and a tavern, with its bar, and multiplicity of rooms, closets, and passages, would seem to be a fit and characteristic residence for the chief of Mormondon at this period. But alas for the prediction! In a few
