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Show k CHURCH OPENS NEW ERA OF TEMPLE ERECTION! S ! jtf X JT V' , WORK REFLECTS CREDIT ON THE MORMON PEOPLE! - SACRED EDIFICES ERECTED BY MORMONS DURING THEIR HISTORY. i ' i I 9 i - " r s ' 1'.' - ' . - i (w " ; ? i ft t t isl MitM0' .T AtB ' "JiW mr ww RUINS OF NAUVOO TEMPLE AFTER FIRE " HIRTLANOi OiO - Activity Will Lead Finally to Building at "Center Stake" in Missouri. AN'IJW ern ot:' toinli! buildiny; is oviiimc in thp it'-tivitirs nt - ".the rhurh uJ" Jesus Christ ol . ., '''La ttor-da.v Snints, whose hend-. (pi;iTfprs avo in I'ImIi. Indications are that this i,ow era niaiks thp beginning I'f'.'llni oxt'i-'utiuii ut tiie pliin of .lusopli Smith, fuimrlrr o: hc. Mormon chuivh, k who ilclnvrii !h;:f the "renter staUe of Zion'' should ho lahiishpfl in Jackson county. Mo. Indeod, the founder foun-der nt' thn work which has growu to niapnificent proportions, during liis !ifc-t !ifc-t inc. dedira tod ;i rilo fur the eh i of est temple of the church at Independence, Mo. Now in course of construction is the temple at- Cardton, Alberta. Canada, and at the last October conference of the church President Joseph F. Smith made the announcement that another was to lie built in the Haw a i i a n islands. This latter project is in direct di-rect fulfillment of the announcement made in the early days of the church by Joseph Smith, founder, that the tvoik should spread until it encom-'passpd encom-'passpd ''the islands of the sea.'-' Mexico Abandoned. K' During his nddrpss on temple build- inir at the October conference of l'.Hj. President Joseph P. Smith said that a structure of this kind had been completed com-pleted in Mexico', but that the unsettled unset-tled conditions there had determined the authorities of the church to abandon aban-don that project, for the present' .time at least, lie also said that other temples tem-ples would be erected in the United States, which offered the church safer conditions, ho that the inhabitants of ail sections would have available opportunities oppor-tunities to perform the work for the dead which, the church inculcates and in which its members believe. On this account and in view of the fact that a temple sire in Independence, Mo., was dedicated in the ea.rly days by the founder of the organization, it is fair to assume t hart the day is not far distant when the head of the church will anno.uiu-e 'a determination to carry out the prediction of its founder. This thought is intensified by knowledge of the further fact that for a. number of years past the church has been purchasing much land in and 'about, the region in which independence, indepen-dence, Mo.,, is embraced. Historic Temples. To indicate the persistency with which the "idea of temple building ha b 0011 pursued by the organization a brief outliV.e of activitios in this respect re-spect will be significant. Following is the. list of temples which have boon erected and' under construction and contpmplated.: Kirtland, Ohio Begun in Jnlv, 18i3. and dedicated March 26. KSiU). Its cost was 7iJ, niio. The modest edifice is still -tnnding. ' . Nauvoo. 111. r'unimonced April (5. 1 SI 1 T and dodi -ated April .30, lS-Hi. This temple was burned by incendiaries in November. vt.S. Its cost was $1,-inin.OOO. $1,-inin.OOO. St . (i eorge. Via h Begun November p, ls71. and dedicated January J, Is77. ! i'o-t $S'u.tnn. 1 .ouan. I'tah Begun September 1 7. iT7.' ami dedicated May 17, 1 S8 1. Cost .-.'H'n.npii. Manti. Vta h -f'iuiimence'1 April 1-b '7! and dedicated May. 11. 1SH. Cost ;'0-'iin(i. r a r d. s t o n , .M ' e r l a , 0 a n a Iti Now i n course of const ruction and expected to be finished within a couple of years. I Hawaiian Islands An noun '.-emeu t of I erect ion made at, h-ist olier confe;-- ence and work expected to begin this year. - Most Magnifivent. s'ait l.ake City."' Utah. This is the moM n;a guil'ii-ent temple c t ore -1 od i '.v the church, it as begun on April G. and was dedicated on April -. lx:v fts cost was about -i.nuo.i nio, in-c-.iding the nnrx. boiler house and n:a-I n:a-I cMnerv room. Tii'i- strncture re-! re-! nownod a li over be wor'.d. bci-aiiM? it lis one of the i it h to he seen iv i j.;r-: j.;r-: i-t"-- who ciime t ;.i- v a v from a ;! a hout the s'nhe. ' j V.'hat the propn-ed temple at Tude- j p e n d r 1 1 c e , I o . , to V. e ; i : ; c c a n on! y he conjectnrec. It is natn.a ti a--!':no j that it !.e tV.e g; a n-ic-i uf rhem all, j on ar-rour.t ot the ii -; :at 1; i u be I oe:Hcd in the i e;,ie- -i' , e :t..v stahe wf Zion."' i ji i . ; : ! . i 1 i; vii' ii'; j a most magnificent structure when finally fi-nally determined upon. Much credit is due the Mormon people peo-ple for their fidelity to the idea of temple tem-ple building. The 'work has sometimes been accomplished under the most trying try-ing circumstances, especially in the early days of the church iii Ohio and Illinois and even in the early days of Utah. "When the building at $t. George was undertaken the people of the territory ter-ritory were poor coin-pared with their condition today. William H. Folsom was the architect who drew the plans for the comparatively humble edifice. The term "humble" is applied because I of the grandeur of ihe edifice in 8alt Lake and the difficulties encountered at 1 M . ".i.cot ge th; I temple being eroded while ..the greater work was bciii done 'h 'alfc Lake. DiTficuIties -Overcome. .'Mr. FolsOm was also architect and superintendent su-perintendent of construction of the temple tem-ple at Manti, which was also erected under. -difficulties. In both these instances in-stances St. 'George and Manti the architect did admiiably well considering the means at bis disposal. In fact, the indomitable Brigham oung, the splendid splen-did loader of a people harassed and eon-: eon-: fronted with the almost, insurmountable I difficulties of pioneer life, selected Wib , liam If. Folsom for these two trving ivorks beciinse of his recognized cort-struotivc cort-struotivc Keuius. Mr. l-'olyoni had already al-ready achieved a reputation in quarters quar-ters farther east iu the building Jiue and had proved his rapabi Ii ty to bring sium.'cps at St. Ueorse and Manti, even though the difficulties to be ptirmountcd and the n'btaele;-; to be overcome were great a nd numerous. It was in April, 1 that. the stock ot whi.'h Mr. Folsoni comes came out of the town of ffingiiain, England, and pursued its way 'to America. "The family fam-ily conn1, of the "Pi'rim fathers'- the old Puritan. -blood which has done so much for the Cnitcd State?. Future Possibilities. It seemed that the pigueering which began in lt38 by John Fonlsbam of ilingham, KnglaniH, was bound to express ex-press itself centuries later in William If. .FoRsom, who pioneered in L tah and Re expression to the blood of his ancestry" an-cestry" in doinjr a mighty work iu uj-building. uj-building. All ot these facts were known bv Brigham Young, who commissioned tr. Folsont to accomplish the temple building, which he did under such trv-i trv-i it u.- circumstances. Xo doubt the work of tempjn building is to be pursued iudifinitely bv the V nrmon people. Their hi-tory 'slio s that mi f-uoner was one templf doue tlian another was .started. Indeed, upon ! occasion, the work lias bpn madt-' to (overlap one temide would not be com-i com-i pie ted before another was becun. j In all of this ativjtv the spirit of j cnnstructivenesF is deinoustrated, and i that which has already hen "accom-1 "accom-1 plished reflects the hi'jhVt crtlt upon the faith and d-i fnuinat I'm ,t' )w poo- "With the?e facts in vjow'. ,y.-ha; fears of grn-ndeur nmy nor be ex.r'c-t,--d froiu a peoiilc growing more ('jiroperoiK a en ch new yea r ljocoine old and i. hurUM back by its youny aud iurous j M!C-essor ? |