Then, I suggest you read my post #33 to become familiar with Elijah Abel. Abel was born July 25, 1810 in Maryland. Was 1/8th of black ancestry. Was a faithful Mormon to the end of his life, dying on Christmas Day, 1884 of debility -- suffered from exposure while being a 73-->74 yo Lds missionary to Canada and then Ohio.
Per assistant historian Andrew Jensen, in his LDS Bigraphical Encyclopedia, vol. 3, p. 577: "He died in full faith of the" [Mormon version of the] Gospel."
Then read the little the Mormon Church had to say about Abel in their December 2013 statement:
"Even after 1852, at least two black Mormons continued to hold the priesthood. When one of these men, Elijah Abel, petitioned to receive his temple endowment in 1879, his request was denied."
IoW, Abel wanted access to a new Mormon temple in Utah. He applied for his endowment. And at a meeting at the home of...
...Abraham O. Smoot (Smoot's wikipedia entry shows him to be the second mayor of Salt Lake City and an early supporter of Brigham Young Academy, which came to be BYU...see Abraham O. Smoot)...
...on May 31, 1879...
...not only was Abel's temple endowment denied...
...but two 1967 Mormon authors claim Abel's priesthood duties were suspended...
(Note: It's possible that some of his priesthood duties were restored by 1883)
But, of course, don't expect full disclosure from the Mormon Church authorities when they tell its history!
"Now the way he translated was he put the urim and thummim into his hat and Darkned his Eyes than he would take a sentance and it would apper in Brite Roman Letters. Then he would tell the writer and he would write it. Then that would go away the next sentance would Come and so on. But if it was not Spelt rite it would not go away till it was rite, so we see it was marvelous. Thus was the hol [whole] translated."---Joseph Knight's journal.
Seems like the Mormon GOD was really concerned the FIRST time about 'clarification'; so why is he(?) so slack NOW??