The following is a further extract from the "Revelation" of January 19,
1841, quoted above.
"Verily, I say unto you, let my servant George, and my servant
Lyman, and my servant John Snider, and others, build a house unto my
name, such an one as my servant Joseph shall show unto them, upon
the place which he shall show unto them also. And it shall be for a
house of boarding, a house that strangers may come from afar to
lodge therein. * * * * Let it be built unto my name, and let my name
be named upon it; and let my servant Joseph and his house have place
therein, from generation to generation. For this anointing have I
put upon his head, that his blessing shall also be put upon the
heads of his posterity after him; and as I said unto Abraham, even
so I say unto my servant Joseph, in thee and in thy seed shall all
the kindreds of the earth be blessed. Therefore, let my servant
Joseph and his seed after him have place in that house from
generation to generation, for ever 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
traveller, that he may contemplate the glory of Zion, and the glory
of this corner-stone thereof."