Joseph said that the sealing power is always vested in one man, and that there never was, nor never would be but one man on the earth at a time to hold the keys of the sealing power in the Church, that all sealings must be performed by the man holding the keys, or by his dictation, and that man is the President of the Church. Hyrum held the patriarchal office legitimately, so do you. Hyrum was counselor, so are you. But the sealing power was not in Hyrum legitimately neither did he act on the sealing principle only as he was dictated by Joseph in every case. This was proven, for Hyrum did in one case undertake to seal without counsel, and Joseph told him if he did not stop it he would go to hell and all those he sealed with him. --Brigham Young, August 10, 1845, Letter to William Smith, LDS Church Archives, see Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith, second edition, by Linda Newell and Valeen Avery, Chicago, Illinois: University of Illinois Press 1994, pg. 216.
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