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Show ASOTHCIt VUTKUAN. Ojo Uin Waa In ill) Klrllaml Ttniple at l'lio riira uf Age. M. O. K.ltlna writes from Colton, linn llernardlnu county, California, under date of April S, aa fbllovri: Your Invitation found me, In this far n ay corner of tbo Unlttd Hlates, by tbeklnJnetaof my slater, U IilRbee, -No. 474 e)tith Weal Temple street, Hull LaUo City, Uiab. I taw tbu "ioriiertlono"iillbnttatitilulTiinp'p hid forty cors ago. I ri member many ol llio worda of Plraldeut llrlit-bam llrlit-bam Vounx ou tint ocinalon. Hi. pjld in If we would "stay lu Itm t alloya ard live our it Union," the timo wiukl come when none netd wlah to go to Calif jrul.l for koU; and "If you want lo reo tbo world it will loran litre, lloyally will yet baro me bead, nnd lend tbu knee, as Ibcy behold tbo tplendsreflbeTemplotbut will s'.aurt comilottd, on thla uround, to tho c,lory ofUod, our lloavonly Kathrr, and Iho credit of Ibe Latter-day rJnlnls." These may not bu hla eiacl words, but memory jfivca them to ne. As be talked bo inadu mo think of tho first lime I ijver saw the l'ropbet Joseph Bmllli, In thn Kirtland Temple, when I waa u child ofoyiani. Whtn tho Nauvoo Templo wnsdoJ. lraieil I beard tbeio worda from tho 111 cf a prophet, but memory ciumt tell thn name. "Thero will bon tern pie lullt In tho tops of tho mountiln wliM) grandeur and beauty Hill exceed ex-ceed this one, i fir oa thla doea the Kirtland Temple." I do not know of any ono of thu tight f eraac llvlug who uccompitilod mo from l'ruvo, lo the corner stonu of Ibu luinplo laid fjrty 3 oars ago. |