Show ANOTHER TEMPLE solemnly dedicated to the most high the following dedicatory prayer was offered in the temple at manti this morning may by apostle lorenzo snow almighty and eternal father crea tor ol of heaven aad earth and all that the they contain thou who art the god aul and father of our lord and savior jesus christ and of the spirits of all living to thee thy believing eV children ildren here present bring our oar offering and beseech thee to grant thy listening ear while we dedicate this temple unto thy most holy name we realize our weakness our utter feebleness and inability to advance advance the interests and honor of thy name upon the earth except thou dost guide ue by thy holy spirit therefore we humble ourselves in thy presence sua ana earnestly entreat thee to forgive us our sins and all vanity and unworthiness biness which thy purity and perfection have discovered in any one of us inasmuch as we are truly penitent and are ready to forgive those who trespass against us we praise and adore thee for having restored to earth again tae falness of the everlasting Ever lastine gospel wherein thou break the silence of ages by speaking to thy servant joseph smith while yet in the days of his youth and by thy presence ana and thine 0 wr wa voice declare thy well beloved son our savior in IA whose name slone alone immortality and eternal life con can be obtained and thou teach discipline and aad empower him to bring forth thy glorious latter day work the dispensation tion of the fatness of times with the record of the prophet mormon thou entrust him with the and Thum mim by which the unlettered youth was enabled to translate the language in which it was en graven though ion long since lost to 10 the human family and thereby revealed tile the origin prosperity and aown downfall fall of the mighty nations that abat inhabited this henily hemisphere here for more than twenty five live centuries of time and also informing us that the pure gospel of a crucified cruc ined a and ad risen redeemer had bad been delivered to and his church established among them we praise thy name for revealing this knowledge which the wisdom ot the world was unable to discover also that thou authorize thy servant joseph to baptize for the remission of sin by sending john the baptist to ordain joseph to that power riving giving him blin also a promise that this min ministry stry should abide in the earth until the sons ot dt levi lev shall again offer unto thee 0 lord an offering in righteousness in the plenitude of thine everlasting love thou also send sead thine apos ties peter james and john who conferred fer r ed the Viel priesthood and apostleship which enabled the prophet joseph to organize org anise thy church and set in order all its appointments offices and its gifts and less lags ings as in the former dispensations everlasting praise to thy aby holy name for sending line upon line and precept precept prep ept and to reveal the abundance guadie of peace and truth b by ending moses to the spirit with power to gather the te house of israel und bli elijah 1 ah to t turn the hearts of the fathers to i their ctr children i na and the hearts of the children to t their that the whole earth might not be smitten with a curse s e 1 when e these manifestations of thine unfathomable oye ovie to thy saints stirred up the eulious hate bate of the ungodly kaffir to bloody persecution imprisonment ment of t aby s servants ints and finally to elterm extermination t bu from rom re the tate state of their chosen homes 0 es thine own right hand brought deliverance to thy saints and gave them a happy respite while they built the beautiful nauvoo but there the wrath of the ungodly waxed furious again while thou fill thy servant joseph with revelations of thy by will wil for the up building of zion ion and ta tte e exaltation of 01 the righteous until nothing ota could a subdue adue their insatiable the afe blood of joseph and hyrum arum and the eK expulsion of thy people from r om the nation i yet thy loving kindness failed not cot and the heart of the savage ladius indians was moved to give us a and kindly y belcome rel welcome come we vve g glorify c oriff th aby great eat and holy i pain name e TIC father for ar these communications i t aps ops of and no power to 0 man in q t the he flesh ea in agan again ana V t that i F f the sp spirit I 1 tan I 1 rl to foreseeing ng the hatred oft of the t e wicked th hat t ae c aroused by the bevc developments lop ments thereof moved thy servant jT oseph to seal sea all t these se ageg keys of power and intelligence which ch ad received upon the beads of 0 his bis brethren the apostles with commandment that they them should NAM build ap op thy iby kingdom cingco and ud establish irs 10 righteousness in 9 the e earth till thy son our cavior shall come copee thy people beme under tinder a sense of these weighty ab obligations ignitions I 1 and being ryen oyt irom from among men aen it seemed proper to thee to make thy servant brigham mighty in wisdom stio and strength to lead forth thy peo people plein in lafety and after a year and and a halts baits journey la in the desert among savage tribes a thou give us rest rent T in these valleys of the rocky mountains in sil all these tribulations thine ear heard and thine own arm brought answers of deliverance to the supplications ions of thine afflicted children nor wast thou weary of their necessities and entreaties but soften the rigor et at unfriendly elements and cause the clouds to scatter refreshing showers the hills bills to yield their treasures of f snow and springs of living water to come forth f from rom the dry and parched ground the labor of the husbandman has been crowned with plenty for man and aad beast and much wherewith to bless the stranger the everlasting hills have yielded their rich treasures of ironhead iron lead silver and gold while lightning and steam have contributed to gather thy sons from afar and thy daughters from the ends of the earth in swiftest ships and without disaster dimter I 1 how can we declare the multitude of all thy mercies which thou bast shown to thy dependent covenant children who have put their trust in thee I 1 tor for time would fail to mention the threatening famine by reason of trie cricket the locust and the grasshopper when thou didat send the gulls galls that swallowed them up and aind the lives of thy people were saved or of the earthquakes which have engulfed islands provinces and cities with the multitudes of their inhabitants while thy people have dwelt safely in this volcanic region unharmed and undisturbed thereby neither is the din of war heard in all our borders we praise thy holy name for all the mighty work thou enable thy chief apostle brigham to perform that he was moved to build and to appoint temples according to thy koly holy commandment in various cities of the land and to designate that one should occupy this delightful spot since it has pleased thee to take him to thyself thine other chief apostle john I 1 lay adlor lor was inspired and with his bis brethren dij did lay jay the foundations of this house and with the freewill free will offerings of thy saints had reared it nearly to completion when his precious life was cut short by cruel persecution we who are spared and are permitted to come together now dedicate this temple unto thee akee we moat earnestly pray ra th that t t thou wilt accept ox of this our bering offering in the all prevailing name of thy son on jesus christ our lold loid and savior we dedicate the ground grorud and the hill on which it stands that the same may be holy unto the ane lord our god that its steps step its terraces its trees and shrubbery with all ali its adornments and its approach esmay be the pathways of the just to the house of the lord the temple of our god lot the foundation of this house be made permanent and never be moved from its place may the stones and the cement of which the building is composed become compact and strong as it if it were one solid rock we consecrate the basement on en the lower story which is in likeness of the home of the dead with its baptismal font for the service of the living and the dead with its steps the oxen on which the font rests its seats its rooms for changes with all its doors and windows their hangings hannings hang ings and fastenings the furniture and aad all that appertains to it may the fountain which supplies it continue a living spring that shall never tail fail I 1 and the stream become as the river of life to thy believing penitent children that they who shall be buried therein may effectually uie unto sin in and in coming forth may inay as certainly arise to lives of righteousness and faith the spirit bearing witness of the blood of christ which anseth cle from all sin and when the ordinance is performed for the dead that they may realize its efficacy as if they had bad received it if themselves while in the flesh esh and be judged in like manner we dedicate and consecrate unto thee and the service of thy saints th the 1 lower lower abd upper tipper main courts with 41 all 1 other apartments in this building which are sheltered by its root according in to the various uses fer which they have been designed with their stands their altars their desks the stairs by which they are reached their doors and windows their hangings hannings hang ings and fastenings ten ings together with their floors partitions ceilings tur furnishings nish ings and ornamentations also all apparatus and fixtures for ventilating warm warming lighting and seating the jamew same whether ether they are tor for public worship administering in the holy sacraments and ordinances of this holy temple le or for private prayer and secret devotion devoti og also all rooms that are used for study and learning words fit af wisdom from the best boos books or by lectures and the expert ear pe of 10 learned men ele able tao afi I 1 aad ways of the lord ord all these we educate edl cate thee atiat that all may be most hol holy and accept 4 able lie unto 4 thae e lord 0 our bod wilt triou acce accept ana biess eaf sacred altars which have baye been erected faints by y the 3 of 01 thy bev devoted saints and wlee thy people 8 shall approach thep in taine cah appointed ted wa way y then do thou hear hearten N en and ana hear ear t their heir 1 i grant them de 11 verance atom their adversaries 5 succor or t teem in ia their tet temptations stations give gite them ern tn troledge of of ibe he ancestry ol of their gen generations eruti us that at they hey may go forth 14 n 1 the and power of thine ordinances ind and as saviors on P aunt zion redeem the genera generations tigas of teiei r dead driad and bring many soni song and daughtery daughter 4 unto thee in thy kingdom when thy sons and daughters s shall desire to plight their faith arh with each thep auto thee in a covenant of ever esting life and shall obtain admittance here ere in n thy holy courts then 0 L lord ord ge be pleased to accept their offerings f fe 1 sanctify them that that they may b be e clean from all unrighteousness clothe thy servants with the cabill babell meats of the priesthood and here at the shrine of thy love seal them thine by thy holy spirit of 0 promise until the day of their redemption the resurrection tion of their bodies as purchased by the blood of christ thy son may this holy temple bib 6 to them as one ol of the gates of heaven opening into the straight a ight and narrow path that leads to endless lives and eternal dominion we dedicate the stands in tile the eastern portion of the building for the occupancy and ministration of the holy hety Melchised ic priesthood which has the keys of all spiritual blessings Is of the order of thy son jesus CUM christ and holds the power of endless lives we also consecrate the stands in the west of the building for the occupancy and ministration of the priest hood which is an appendage to the priesthood and holds the keys of temporal teal blessings les sings we be beseech thee e our heavenly father to inspire re thy ministering servants who shall I 1 instruct thy people from these stands stan ds that teat they may rightly divide the wo words ads of truth and give to each mem member berof of thine household his portion of meat in due season that from the treasures of thy storehouse the riches of eternal life may exalt thy children to a knowledge of thy thyself pelf may he who shall preside over the ministrations rations in this holy holi temple and all who labor with him be greatly blessed with he understanding of thy perfect law and all the applications thereof to the conditions or of thy people when any difficult matter shall require his bis consideration may the voice vice ofphy holy spirit give to him the revelations of thy will that all the in this thy house and all the ordinances performed may be according to thy holy will and be accepted and be sanctioned in heaven thy hot holy habitation ve we dedicate to thee the records which are and shall be kept of all the ordinances administered here in this temple may the tae recorders who shall have the care and labor of making and keeping them be abundantly blessed with wisdom and knowledge that the same may be truthfully and faithfully kept and be found worthy of all acceptation cep tation that thy people may be righteously judged according to all that shall be written therein we earnestly pray that they may be preserved most holy unto thee from all violence and desecration until they shall have accomplished the full object and purpose of their creation 0 lord god of our lathers fathers of the prophets and ol of thy people we beseech thee accept the dedication of this temple with all that appertains to it including the foundation and the lowers thereof unto thyself may this delightful location be known as an a holy hill of zion among thy people graciously be pleased to place thy name upon this house let the power of thy spirit be felt by all who shall enter within its portals Give thine angels charge concerning it that it shall never be possessed by thine enemies neither be denied defiled by the wicked and ungodly lynor nor ever be injured by any destructive elements but grant that it may stand and endure as a monument of the obedience and aad love of thy people and to the honor of thy holy name tor for ages yet to come in holiness to the lord we praise thee for thy goodness in enabling thy servants to translate and send abroad the fatness of thy gospel as contained in the book of mormon into so many languages i of the various nations of the ea earth rth do thou bless the humble efforts of thy faithful servants in all the various peoples and tongues among whom it has penetrated that they may bear a faithful testimony of the truth that has sprung out of the ground and of the righteousness that has looked down from heaven have thou meroy upon judah and jerusalem i hasten the going forth of this sacred record to the hebrews of all nations raise up men and means to carruthe car carry rythe the siad lad tidings of thy returning favor to that afflicted people wilt thou her bear and answer the prayers of thy servants and aad turn away the barrenness of their land make it very fertile as in da days ys of old turn the hearts of the exiles ile 8 to t a thy promises made to their fathers I 1 and let the land of jerusalem becom become inhabited ai a 3 towns without wals walls for the multitude of men mea and cat tle tie therein that they may rebuild their city and temple that the glory of the latter house may be greater than that of the former house we render thanks and praise to td thy ably name tor for the measure of thy ap spirit it sent forth among the scattered remnants of the seed gf 0 of joseph I 1 that they ey are pleased and comforted at tearing bearing of the record of their fathers that tha where they have opportunity trev incline to the me 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