Friday 9th snow storm in the morning
Filled & meeting commened at 9 oclok After Prayer the people
were addresed By who exhorted the people & spoke
many good things
President said this people
are blessed with all that Heart can wish and yet many
are not satisfyed this is the case with smome some spirits & they
want things illegally but is it not necessary that we should
have a Temple it is absolutely necessary that we should have a
Temple to worship the Most High God in. A Tabernacle is to
assemble the Multitude for meetings but a Temple is to gather the
priesthood in that they may do the work of the Lord are
we prepared to go & redeem our dead is their a place prepared
to go & Redeem our dead No their is not we give Endowmets
Here but it is like trying to step on the top round first. if we
had the privilege of steping on building a Temple our works
would not be legal but we do these things untill we have time
to build a temple if we had gone onto the top of the mountains
if we had no room it would be legal & right Brothe
says we have to make our own heaven. The Lord cannot
save us if we do not save ourselves. if we expect to get ourselves
Endowmets we have got to follow the footsteps that God has set for
us to walk in & if we walk in that Channel God own our labours
& acknowledges all that is done. Now all the ordinances will
have to be attended to again when we get a temple yet if any
one dies in the faith those ordinances will be legal but all
that live will have to do it again And I want to say as a
Revelation that if you will not help build a Temple & have
faith in the work you will be lost a word to those who
have got their Endowments we shall work as fast as
we can and what we have done is legal if we had been
in own land & had a right to a Temple we should not do as we now
do many [who] have died in the faith have been worn out ther
ordinaces are legal. Those who came in the church first &
are faithful have a right to the ordinances first. I wish
the people to understand that when the People Lord has
any thing for them they will have it but when the
Lord has Nothing for the people I dont wish them
to teaze me for what they cannot have. when their
is to be a work done I will tell you. Now we shall begin
to build a in 1853. This Tabernacle will have to
accomodate the people untill the Temple is built. if this wont
answer for the people untill we build a Temple we will make
a Bowery on the North & South sides of the as soon
as the Temple is built we will give you your Endowments
