Show RECORDS OF SACRED WORK the published some time f ance doe a number of articles which treated upon the necessity and nd importance of the Latt latterly erAday saints keeping private journals lourn alp giving ti vint details detail of every event moment with which they are of any ally associated th there ere to la a class of fools the recording of which la 18 of para par mount interest to fRID families famil iee those to their connection which pertain with the church every head bead of a family should carefully keep an account of all baptisms confirmations marriages marriage deaths I 1 ordinations ordination miss missions ionti and appoint monti ments that are associated with the members of his family circle be carried forward that the statement may by his bis posterity after him As these are matters which pertain to eternity as well as time lime it is ia scarcely needful to dwell upon the reasons why such a record should be kept unfortunately in many of the words wards and other divisions of the church the maintenance of communal records embodying the data referred to has hae been abeen neglected rendering the duty it in this rem respect peet of individuals rod and families all the more urgent department of the work there is no of god I 1 which the keeping of private or family records is more positively required thou than that of the labor performed in the temples by the living forthe for the dead the redemption of the spirits spirit of those who have parsed bi ahli hit d the veil will be a continuous work for more mere than a thousand years the is being PrO preached sched to them in the spirit ii by bv those who have gone from this fph sphere holding the keys kejs acid authority of the holy priesthood Doubt doubtless lew many of the dead have received the word of the lord leird with ith gladness and are waiting for the perform mace ance by their living kindred of the ardi ordinances nancee of the gospel in their behalf they are thus bus prepared for the resurrection which will open in this dispensation simultaneously with the coming of the lord jesus christ coristin Cb ID his glory As an this labor the rede my of the race its magnificent arc 9 can readily lie be imagined to ao far as the mind tan taft car capacity lacity to craod them teem As this grand work which draws the hearts of the fathers s and d children gildren nil dren together in the bon bonto bonis to of indissoluble union must be carried forward through future it needs no to convince those who have even but a glimmer of conception of its character that the children mud childrens children of those these who now DOW enter the holy temples to officiate in behalf of the dead should know in detail the extent of this labor that has been done by their fathers and mothers it they shall be in ignorance on the sublet how shall ball they take up the labor at the point where it was wad left by their predecessors anil and how bow can they gain the information except RD an accurate account has been kept by those who have accomplished the work already perform performer eu some borne may iu in this regard rely upon the records which kept in the temples as a source from which future workers could obtain data in relation to labor already done for their kindred those who imagine that the duty of keeping individual or family records can be obviated on this basis have not dot thought of the rapidity with which vie toe records in the temples accumulate As an illustration it may be stated that wince since the open g of the salt alake temple on the of may comparatively but a few weeks ago over ten thou thousand baptisms for the dead have been ver performed formed to date this refers to but bui one among many departments or classes of the snored sacred work for the dead but it is sufficient for a basis upon which to form an estimate of the entire aggregate at the present rate of progress no very great time would elapse before the number would run up to hundreds of thousands this statement alone ought to show thattie that the furnishing of abstracts would be a task of very great proportions and every difficulty in this regard can tie be avoided by each iti individual or family Itee keeping a private record blank books booke simple and suitable in form foi m tor for the purpose can be had at a comparatively small cost on these aa u account of the labors in the temples performed for or the ibe dead by the living ought to be written u under appropriate prop headings at the time it is done our advice to the saints li 14 l i that they keep an accurate account of all the sacred wuk work performed pert ormed by them we HO 90 to the t of saying that they ought to regard this subject in the light of an important duty |