021 How the Priesthood-Temple Ban Became Fully Entrenched Policy in the Church
Church History Matters
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Elijah Abel's Order to the Priesthood
John Taylor decides to investigate the question because Elijah Abel has been ordained to the priesthood. And so John Taylor is going to ask an apostle Joseph F. Smith to carefully look at Elijah Abel's ordination and what the circumstances were surrounding it. Abraham O. Smoot says that back in 1835-36, when he was on his mission in the Southern States, he learned from some other missionaries that Joseph Smith had told them that slaves were not entitled to the priesthood nor yet to be baptized without their masters' consent.
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