| Show t = TEMPLE WORK Rmark Made at tha General Conforonoo oflho Church In the Tab ernacla Ball Lk City Friday October 4th SOD by ELDER MARRINER MERRILL atrCUaD V ARTIIUR WINTl by experience lhat Ills t balearned I I lhe congreClllon 10 b ° cesssir lor I quiet In order 10 bur h311s yery this Ihd Isatlntheconirega frout eiterJai at the singing conlestand doa with Creat l IKficuly llt I could It Urolh Geoge Q hY prakert Peorse br thl ipe nd a Ibort JJlMi aU thouh Cannon he bu I In elcellent voIce to mike pcoPlh rll as l Mficulty St I beard all he said lerhal1l bow tht accounted a little hardol ef rIam I hearlnr Thaw I been much edified and Instruct marks that have been made cd In the during the conference thus far looked I remark of Ireldenl Snow the pan thll morning as being very choice They ere but f but lkey wtre lo Ihe Mint and to me had II great deal ol nlmng In Ihem > II alluded > In bll closing ords to the subject of working for the dead To me this is a very Im nottantsullect for Utter day balntsto consider Our Llders go abroad lo the difltrmt nations of lhe earth and preach die Ucxptl I and gather up a lew people oneol > city and to ol a family and tring them to Zlon It Is on this principle prin-ciple lhat this congregation la hre Ther ire people here from the varloui nations of the eatth Some ol these have availed themselves of lhe opportunities oppor-tunities afforded In laboring In the In einuf I thlr dead kindred Hut 1 have tbouihl I sometimes that this ullect was not so strlouily considered by the I Utterday Saint at It ought to be Our President llrolher Wlllord Woodrutl has Uboied a great many yean In the temples I has done more work perhaps joie Coc crT than anybody else In the Church lor his kindred and others who have passed tl a sy To me It i a certainty that be ondlhe v ed is a reality as much m here ind It Is a certainly lhat our kindred on the other side are Mulching anxiously over our movements In this direction t have In operation four temples In the church bcnte of them have been In operation quite a number ol ears and all bave had work dune In them for seme time Uut we have not done a licit dtalol work vet compared to the lEoout that we have to Uo lor your Information I might read the ilallstlrs ol the wok that has been done In the tempi up to the LSI I of last > ear and uu ulll nnd lhat It has nut been so extensive as II should have been The ball Lake Temple has probably been well Riled since It was opened but other Itnl pies In the Church have been very ullmly attended and I believe It has been a consideration on the part of the residency I of the Church whether It uuuld bo wise to keep all the lemptes open during all the > ear I do not know that they hle coldl < d It very seriously I serious-ly but I have heard remarks ol I lhat kind Hie baptisms that have teen I performed up lo December jist of last year 1894 only amount 107737378 I little over three quarters of a million This comprises the work In all the temples Irom tht bctnnlng not IncludIng Includ-Ing however the tndomenl House I Ol course there was quite an amount I but ul work we have I dune In found thelnuuvxment that a treat House deal of that work has been duplicated from the fact that people did not keep a record of the work thcrmelves and the records of the ndonmeut 1 House In tlmos past were not available to everybody The 1rophet Joseph to whom the Lord revealed this work In the hrst Instance In-stance had great concern about It He Impressed the Importance ol It on the minds ol the Saints the latter part ol his ministry timing the people 1 believe be-lieve It w ould not be out of t lace to read an extract or Uo from the sayings of the Irophet loseph III relation tu this subject He fell that the bunts should have Interest in It and go to with all their might and labor la the Interest of Ihelr kindred dead and lie talked to them freciuinlly about It In speiklng In regard lo the bamts becoming saviors upon Mount ZIn the Irophet Joseph said thus to his brethren Hut how are they la Ucon uriort on Mount Zlonf llr builil thtlr templet l Meeting Meet-ing their bjptltrcal 10nU and going forth and receiving all the ord nances tMptUois confirmation confir-mation waihltgi anointing htutlont and seal ng i > owrn upon 11r heidt In I behalf of oil their progenitor who art dead and icileetu tl ti i thai they may coma forth In llio Aril returrectlon and ta I csaltcd lo thrones of glory wlh them > nd herein 11 the chain lint binds the hearts of U e tit loon lo the chlldlrn and the chldren lo the fathers Mch fulfills the million ol Lh > h He further says The Mints have r > ct too much time to sat a and redeem their daI I and gather together their lltlng relatives 1 that they i I N aliohtlaie the euih vilU be ml nd 110 consumption decreed falls upon tl woIJ And again ThIIat1 rponlblly In thll wMld 1101 God b laid upon 110 k ner our daJ The Apostles say that they without Us cannot be made perfect It ls neccs sary that the sealing power should be In our hands to seal I our children and our dead Ihese savings are lust as true as the sajlngs rf I resident Woodtull on this subject The Lurd recognues In Ills setvanls the right and the auihonty toad to-ad I and counsel the bain s m these mailers Uequulefiom Piterami wo quote Irom James and John and o herO her-O hels and wo have the same right lo quote Cram the Irophet Jus J pn or from tue 1iophet Engrain or from the Iro phetUifurd In act to me the living oracles of the Church MC more Impor taut If we should make any ihllemice at all tnan the written wurd It ls a KOOd thing to have the Bible I the Hook r Mormon and the Hook ol 1 Uoctrme Covenants but It Is I a Illtlc better in my mind to have the living oracles of God In our midst The Lord deals vvlih lln people according to circumstances and conditions He reveals to them from time to time Ills mind and will Ue never have had the promise of having everything at once Hut we have the promise of having lire upon line pre celt upon precepthere n little and tliete a mile lltncc the Importance ol the living oracles of the Church who an In harmony and fellowship with the heavens hue servants ol God ho had the spirit of Joseph III continuing the work lhat was commenced by the Prophet In the erection of r temples and millions of f dollsrj have been rent by the Latterday bainls In the building of na ahl nfo temples and suppose some few non Mormons have contributed also for this purpose There Is an object h I ill this aid the LallT day balnu should consider con-sider the purpoies lor w tilth the temples nl the Lord are erected We cannot get along without them now we have had too much experience II we had net built those temple the Lord m ght have rejected I us I he bamts In all I parts ol the ind I should consider seriously these natters tou ant ourchlldrell sealed to you you want your wives sealed to t > ou and wives want their I huv band you want your fjlks that hive gone beundthe veil officiated for Uo have only Just commenced this wotk We have not baptized a million yet out of the hundreds of millions that have lived and died It Isasutijecl that we ought to be awakened to You and I will die alter little while we d not know how long 1 do not know that I will ever have the privilege of standing lnfi here again 1 rr and 1 may not It Is the same in > our case ou know not unless God IIAS revealed Ilia you that these times and opportunities l ul I be lengthened out lo you to olhciate lor your kindred and > ou aregolug to meet them some day which may not be far distant on the other side and perhaps they will ask OU what jouhave done lor tl cm Have yuu done anything for tiienif A great many people in lIe Church have not done anthlng > ct Only a comparatively few people In the Church have seemed In bae much Interest In-terest In this workand will venture to say here that there are plenty of people thit have contributed hbiriily toards build ng the temples and they have not enlereu Into them vet I find people ol this I kind i rl almon I every diy They say they have helped builil the temple but they have not liad time yet to go In and I olhiclate I Hut I must tike lime Is what hey will I exclaim Ilrethren and sisiers lo me this Is I Important Im-portant It it Important lo 1 you al < o It rsor a retponsiblhiy mat II 1 e Lord has placed upon u < and Ills savants have carried out Ills designs In relation lo tnese things The opportunities are placed within our reach wherein the hearts ol the fathets may be turned lo the children and the hearts ol the children child-ren to the timers In fulfillment ol the words of the Ijril 1 thought I would treat for lhe f w moments allotted to me on this particular putat because I have Interest and have labored now lo sometime some-time In tills d rection ald rcahe the Imiottaice ol the ork The Ircsl dcncy tC the Church hold the kcv lo this work They direct Itsafairr and at 1 said to OJ penpi the IxirJ has not revealed everything l to them vet but He will reveal line upon Hie t as He d d I to the truphet over n year ago the propriety pro-priety of extending the sealinnrdlnancc farther than we had previously done Of course that added a little more work to the temples bo other things may be enlt JiI idm arr revealed by and b > Hut suiiceltto I say we have a great many things revealed re-vealed that we have rut e inlhlne about yet A great many ol u < have not > ct baptlua fur cjr I Indml and friends and they are numerous on the other side ol the veil We have more relatives and friends rn tie other side than we have here and when we go there we will mtet them FJUIC people spend their lime xnJ their main id search out the genealogies of their lathers and some aro wailing for the genealogies to rente to the Tfe counsel that 1 have glvcn to the Silnts In this regard Is this do or thosehat vou have borne will say I arn wait ing l till I gel a few more names before I go to the tcmpli Hut do no wait lor mat Go and officiate for those ou hive and then 11 I hun iJty seek the Lord that the way ma be opened lor vou to obtain more records Hie Lord moving upon quite number ol JIIo pie In the world U wrlto record and kcnealogies mure so at present than ivcrb lure Ieople are searching after these things and perhaps they know not why but the Lurd Is moving In this I direction and a great many people can obtain their records throughthschannel II they will mamleit an in crest In II Ol cuurse It lakes a little time and perhaps per-haps a little means to accomplish this Hut we are here to dj Ihiswurk The Lurd requires lIt our hands and It Is I Important that we should give It consideration con-sideration and not let our Ilictlmc pass away without availing ourselves ol the opportunities lhat are presented tu us Il Is said that everybody unrot get a recommend lo go lo the temple If there are any that cannot gel a recommend recom-mend they are In fault themselves wr hJI and f would advise all lhe SIts lo straighten I themselves up humble I Ihenvelvei before lhe I dl Lord reperl and I turn unto the Lord and accomplish l this I I work that Is I required at our hinds our kindred am lookln anxiously lo joil to do this Lei not lhe day of lhe onoortunity pass by but leek with nil diligence to accomplish w hat you ran In your lifetime In the Intercut of jour kindred Our time Is only Iholt her Jut a few yrits snd we have got through We hear ol people that have I lived seemingly quite 1 n long I time inF 11 aliyI fyIr Ir = nnongil us but It is really only a few tlavs and thy pus away So It w II bg In our case In a hundred yars from now perhaps there wont one 01 us be heir mil we will be numbered amo g those lhat were Therefjre tvall your elvrf mv brethren and sisli r one on all of the oppnrlunillesof uflicli Inj for lour klndr1 In lhe house of the Lord I God bless juti Amen |
