Grant appointed a committee to review the content of ordinances performed in LDS Church temples.
[2] The committee completed its work in 1927 and recommended to Grant that the oath of vengeance be removed from the temple endowment ceremony.
"[4] On February 15, 1927, apostle George F. Richards, acting on behalf of the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, notified the presidents of the church's six temples that "all reference to retribution" was to be removed from the endowment ceremony and that the oath of vengeance was to no longer be administered.
For example, since 1844, Latter-day Saints had sung the hymn "Praise to the Man" as a tribute to Joseph Smith.
Part of the second stanza read, "Long shall his blood, which was shed by assassins, / Stain Illinois, while the earth lauds his fame".