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Show l "'', - : '' r'.i." ; ., l'.01. ,',,,,,,:',- : ' ,,'-- '.: ,,, t ,,:4 '' .,,,s:,- t: ,:,,;;.'" ' ,:, "7 ? ..,L. '','-- ., '; ,r---i- , !.,e- -- (.1 ,l, N'N. ,, ,,:il i lt k : , e ( - rs,N1,3, ::..:',: 4 .. !.,.. , . , , f ... N. .; . . N - --y ' ,, 1 .. .4",::":411101" ' L'..,'.''-:',,,- - ots, 1,:-,t- . ' : ,f t t ,''',7:'''''4, -v ! , !f' ,. ; ,.4 )tok , , . .:..': '. :: .,. tt .....; ,,;.', ;, i,'.1:;', J ....wig'. !'' 7 4 or''''," ",;..,,,,:ist: ' ,''' ''''.' ;,, ' '. 4.,'":''',..,,;,1 :'.. :': f; ''.!.;' : '. 4 47' :';', 'I',: .',".: '. . :' ' '''.., ' Mott PRES. STEPHEN L RICHARDS Temples are built "Oat man might receive the most glorious exaltation that may come to him, and to perform the ordinances which are essential to everlasting life in his presence." - Temple Ordinances Are Essential to Echo Ration By PRES. STEPHEN L RICHARDS 4 ,,, At the conclusion of the final service, as I came out the front door, I saw a little family sitting on the steps of the temple. I could see at a glance that they were poor peoplea man and his wile and four or five children. l'went over to shake hands with them and I said to the man; "1 presume you have enjoyed the dedication." "Oh, yes," he said, "we have, but we are waiting for tomorrow when the temple will open." He said, "We have been poor all our lives. We never had the money to go to the temple to be married. We have raised this little family, not as we would like to have done because we've never been able to have them sealed to us. We are waiting until tomorrow when the temple opens, to receive the greatest blessings of our lives, to be joined together In those bonds of wedlock that the world does not knownot for time, alone, but for all eternity." I had never heard a simpler and more humble expression of appreciation for the great work of the temples, and I am sure that there will be those who feel as this humble man and his family felt. They will be waiting for the temple to open to secure those inestimable blessings which are here given. THERE WILL BE those who will call this temple a house of mystery because they do not understand, and because the world will not be admitted into it, and they will think of it in terms of something most unusual and fanciful. There will arise an opportunity to tell them that we do not build houses of mystery, all may come who will prepare for entrance. We have received the commandments and the revelations to build these great ;L:lifieeit in order that man might receive the most glorious exaltation that may come to him, and to perform the ordinances which are esse-atia-l to everlasting life in His presence, and the reunion of families, and to the beginning of a life which shall be never-endinincomprehensible In the Infinitude of the goodness and power of it. So that, I trust, as the building progresses, as inquiries come Continued on rage 7 . ir - ", e- -. ?Mr.- AA ,s, , 1,,k t'''''" - ' ' I f.' z1 ' ', .''''''..C.,,::' , ': '. I ,...., .......,.... , 'e' N;,1 ,''740. . 1 '... I I 0 I ;3110- .1.,' tot ,. ' ' ,',',' ': , ''' :: 1' , , - - - , ,,: . , - ':, ": -- , 'ik .: ,- - '' . . , , A,,f. : s . r------ I, P 4P v .r. ' loref - , By PRES. I. REUBEN CLARK JR. Wall text of remarks at ground-breakin- g extremes of the Log Angeles Temple site, Saturday, Sept. 22, 1951.) : - : 'Building of a Temple A Great Responsibility' ,.. s 14: PRES. J. REUBEN CLARK JR. N,,, - 1'4; "You v;ill get joy in the temple and in its erection in proportion to the sacrifice you make in order to iiecurs its building." -- - r, . - ' , , ' ' ,'''''''.- ' : ,...00100m06111110,111.1111.111111111M2:4' : ''. i 1 .; A,,, ,, ,,,V ..K - 1,...7.........y ', ,,.,! ::.' ,:. :i ,e1..fp : :. .' t;:el i VS - .;i, ,:, 4'. ' ' ' t'.k, '1'. , , "Nklf 15. , :'-':- k e, , ' ground-breakin- g '.. .' ' 'This Will Be a House in Which The Spirit of the Lord May Dwell' i' ,' - g, a ': 0 (Full text of remarks at exercises of the Las Angeles Temple site, Saturday, Sept. 22, 1951.) MY DROTHERS AND SISTERS: 0, WE ARE INDEED favored, myiSpirit. It is a pleasure and a great brethren and sisters and We will have opportunity to honor to be here today and to to be of the select few explain that this great building friends, say a very few words to you at who are privileged to be pres- has been constructed for very this time. ent on this occasion. If we had definite purposes, and that those The building of a temple and to extended the invitation wide purposes are insure the great its resulting privileges is in itenough and given advance pub- - blessings the Lord has prepared self weighted with great licity to this occasion, I made for His children. It will afford If you will read a to marvelous the estimate that ten thousand opportunity give the of the building of story people would be here, and one to the people who come here an what preand Solmon's temple of my California friends im- understanding of the preferred ceded it, you will have in mind status to those that who goes mediately doubled it; so I think some of the things that I have we are favored to be present on truly subscribe to the commandin mind now. this occasion and I heartily ments of God, who enter into the I thought I woulld like to concur with President McKay holy covenants which He has to you a few verses from read for His who and people that In the years to corns this designed and Covenants. Doctrine the here in realize this temple wiU be writfin down as one of will They are part of a revelation the great markers of progress the greatest and fondest ambiwhich was received by the Saints. In the Church and Kingdom of tion of true Latter-da- y an AM incident REMINDED of I Prophet Joseph Smith some ten our Father. a few years ago when we days after the beginning of the There will be erected on these erection of the Kirtland Temple in Arizona. the dedicated temple grounds a building which will adorn this countryside. I have no doubt that it will attract the attention and command the admiration of countless people who will come to see it, but out of the thousands and perhaps millions who will see it, there will be relatively few who will Christ, who have never heard By PRES- - JOSEPH FIELDING SMITH understand the importance and of his name, who lived In pethe significance of this beautiexercises of Well text remarks at riods of time and under condiful building. They will think, the Los Angeles Temple site, Saturday, Sept. 22, 19513 tions where the truth of the very likely, that we have erect- I AM VERY PLEASED to have with- Gospel never reached them, die who that they possible ed it as one of our assembly, the privilege of meeting with out having the opportunity of might have an opportunity to places. Many will call it a cathon this occasion. You good repentance, they who have not receive the ordinances which you edral, and they win assume' members of the Church have learned of the Gospel of Jesus Continued on Page 7 that it is erected for ordinary been pleading for a number of r .c..fftMoe, worship. ' a temple. The oppor1415 ', .1 But we who understand Its years for '1''''' ,.:,;''' .'. '''. 'N,, .: is now it your door. We tunity, IN,' : purpose will have a very dif- have assembled for the purpose ' . ''' s'4'4't, ferent View7 and I believe of i ', , breaking ground as a gesture that there will arise an oppor- towards a House the building of tunity to make of this temple a to the Lord. great missionary force for the What is a temple? It is a holy . Church and Kingdom of God, edifice in which the most sacred ' " .'''', i j''': .:';.,. ; '0.1: '', - ' because there will come oppor- and solemn ordinances pertain'' "A .,..:,, '' ' ', tunities to explain its purpose ing to the salvation of men may t2 ,... '. , 'dr 'N.; i. N it and to differentiate between the be performed. This will be a ie' ,,,,,' views that many hold, who house in which the Spirit of the worship the Christ and those Lord may dwell if the good peo, , marvelous concepts which have ple who assemble in it do so been given to us with the restor- with an eye single to the glory 1 ation of the Holy Gospel. of God, if they come into this , .. , lirtitYWHERE FENIX ought building when it is finished with to understand that we do not their hearts clean, their minds worship brick and stone; we are clean, humble in spirit and with not Intent upor. the building of a determination to keep all of '"114.'w 7.''s commanding structures to In- the commandments of God. In ''',,,..s., :; : 4 dicate our devotion and our al- this building will be performed . , , , , to the legiance to the Most High. I ordinances pertaining ' ''', : thought of that particularly as exaltation and eternal life liv-of I went through the cities of man, both for those who are the dead. &cope last year and saw the ing and likewiseof for salvation for great cathedrals of the land . and THIS GOSPEL the dead is something which the worship that seemed to be PRES. JOSEPH FIELDING SMITH paid to them, and I was more Is peculiar to the Church- of of Latter day "The gospel of Salvation for the dead Is peculiar to the grateful than ever before that Jesus Christ we had been taught to different- Saints. It was peculiar to the Saints." Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y iate between the worship of Church of Jesus Christ of FormSaints. er-day Worldly and temporal things In his mercy and wisdom, Our 'DESIRE'S' ctlitVil and the worship of the Lord Sompteminit God by and through His Holy Father In Heaven has made It ground-breakin- g ' N ' .;.. i., , ,,,...-'''''- 6, - , ,i. and this had to do with the erection of a temple in Jackson County, Mo. I am reading front the With Section of the Doctrine Jind Covenants. "And Inasmuch as my people build a house nat me Is the name of the Lord, and de net suffer any unclean thing to come into it, that it be net defiled, my glory shall rest upon It; Yea, and my presence shall be there, for I will come inte it, sd all the pure in heart that shall come late it shalt see God. "But if it be defiled I will net come into it, and my glory shall set be there; for I witt not come late satiety temples." (D. k C. 97:15-17- ) That is the responsibility which is incident to the erection and the maintenance of this building and the carrying on of the work therein. Those who come into it mast meet this requirement which the Lord laid down if this temole Is to enjoy the presence of the Lord. AND I WOULD like to say this to you people of this area: You Will get joy in the temple and tt its erection in proportion to the sacrifice which you make in order to secure its building. I di not know what lies behind sacrifice, but I tie know that it Is one of the great elements whieh build spirituality. The Son of God Himself was sacrificed to atone for the Fall, to be resurrected in order that we alight be resurrected. I do not pretend to understand the principle which lies behind that, but I do know from my observation and from some slight. experience that if we are to get the full value Item an undertaking in this Church of ours, the full spiritual value will be enlhanced and increased and brought to its full proportion only as we sacrifice. My the Lori bless you In this area. May He bring into your hearts the spirit which you should have In order to carry on this work. May. He purify your hearts and your, conduct. May He instill into Your hearts a desire to serve Him and to keep His commandments.: May he being into your very souls the spirit of sacrificer. I humbly. pray in the name of Jesuit. Amen.- - .. CHURCH SECTION-- 4 - t s 4 t 1 ; t V 3 |
