| Show THE TEMPLES OF THE SHE lor LORD W THE tue corner stones stories of another temple to the moat most hagh god hAve been laid by the tho leading authorities pf af the hurch church of jesus christ of lat to ter days day balanta A very brief account of the ceremonies received by deseret telegraph will be found in another column we now have three temples in process of construction two of which are well wall advanced and ono one completed and in working order this thia is in exceedingly gratifying lo to the saints in all the world and causes joy in the regions of the departed these edifices are of paramount importance they are not designed aa as some may suppose for mere houkes of public worship our tabernacles ern acles and other meeting houdei are ard erected for that thit purpose temples are intended chiefly for the administration of ordinances and ceremonies which are necessary for the perfecting of the saints the uniting together of the tho living and the dead the welding of the links that must join the different despen lations sat ions the arrangement of the fu fuli full 1 I order of the holy priesthood with all ail ita its keys beys powers and administrations the adoption and nese nest nestlings lings pertaining to the eternal family relations the preparation reparation reputation for or the advent of the edee Kdee redeemer merand and the permanent establishment of the kingdom of god upon the face of this planet each building when finished and dedicated will be indeed a house of the lord a portal to the higher spheres the necessity no etsity for such structures is not comprehended by the world the objects of their erection are not understood neither is the manner of their construction included in the architectural knowledge of christian or jewish nations any more thin than of Mahome dans or hea that they were considered of vast importance among the people bof of god in ancient times any student of the bible may readily perceive the tabernacle of israel in the wilderness was a temporary temple in which while the deop people 6 travelled needful ordin ordinances anees were wore administered and the lord lora made himself manifest for the benefit of his servants but when they became established upon the land of promise god required a house to be built according to the pattern that he revealed in which all things could be attended to in their completeness lu in the temple erected by solomons Bo lomon with the tbt means principally accumulated by his father davd david the lord appeared at its dedication and the bobki nah shone in the holy of holies as a witness of his favor and presence when israel served him and did not go astray after the gods of the stranger when the son of god dwell dwelt ain arn among ingmen men that house had become ao so defiled and its ministers so cor bupt rupt that the place was offen offensive sive alve to him maud and ana though built for bit hite use and reception ha had to exclaim the fosea havo have holes and the birdson birds of the air have neste but tho son of mau man eth no not where to lay hia hla bead head it was wa therefore destroyed so that one stone htone was not left upon another since buce its demolition no temple tempie of god has bab been erected upon the earth save bave and except those structures which have been built by the latter day saints under divine direction net ther indeed could they have ben ber b en for no man could dethe the plan explain their object or administer the ordinances belonging thereto ered without revelation from on high temple building ia is one of the signo of the mission of the latter day prophet one of the tokens of the tho ushering in of the dispensation of the falness of times in temple tempie ef of the last days which was built in kirtland ohio the tho pattern and objects of which were revealed to the prophet joseph smith the holy ghost was poured out cut upon the solemn assembly within fis its walla as on the celebrated day of pentecost it rested upon the Elders in cloven tongues of living fire while they emoke ia in oh other er languages and prophesied angel angels b ministered to some and the keys of former dispensations were brought bearth te to arth earth and restored by thoi u who held them in past ages cornerstones corner stones atones for temples were laid on the spot for the centre centro stake iu in jackson county missouri and also at far west and at nouv nauvoo oo 00 illinois a vi temple timple was ea s far completed that some of the most important ordinances were administered and much power conferred on men in the priesthood by which they have been able up to the present time to bear off the kingdom kow now we have the glorious privilege of possessing in this territory one no house at st george built to 0 tho lord in which the ordinances both for the living and the dead can be received two more temples one in this city the other in logan lugan advancing toward completion and of commencing another at manu manti all of 61 which are or will be erected according to the instructions commandments and plans plana of the almighty and not merely after the skill shili or wisdom of men to our respected president whose head is whitened with the wonderful experiences pennen perien ces cea and heavy trials of nearly naif balf a century of struggles for hand who bears in his marks of the cruelty and wraith wrath of its op posers had to the other veterans of the church who have borne the burden and heat beat of the day from the rise of the latter day work until now paw the sight eight ot 01 these structures with with their eternal import to the children of men i must be a source of unspeakable pleasure and immeasurable satisfaction for por they understand the th design and purpose of their erection and value them in a great measure at their true worth forth wo we do not wonder that the latter day saints are ridiculed for B pending so much time and means and labor in building these temples to the lord nord the wisdom thereof is foolishness to the world they may now despise and wonder while they perish parish but in the eternity to which we are all hastening there will come a period when their despising will be turned into sorrow and their taun tings into prayers and then the benefits of th the a 4 temple ministrations will come to them in their lella holla while its ordinances amite smite down the bars of their prison sand the men ruen whom they have derided and abused shine forth in the gloom a as their merciful deliverers clothed with the might of the eternal priesthood whose power reaches to every laou and daughter ot adams adama race under the immutable jaws laws men ment t mercy merey and ind faith let the Sal hal the most hau use ubo all diligence in forwar forwarding dlug diug the work on the temples in their respective districts therein will lie be administered the healings and ad adoptions op of the new and everl overl everlasting tind tina cov covenant enaut therein will the monr nonn of Moe Mote sand of aaron stand in their p place bace being sanctified to thee the promise therein will the ap poi pol pointed ones s behind the vail vall commune with the living for the salva tion of the dead and therein will the light and power and majesty sty ot 0 1 the lord bord be developed for the resumption and glory of zion al nid aid d the setting up of that nha bea heaverd hea verb dominion which never perish again from frond the earth parth |
