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Day in the Life

May 5, 1855

Journal Entry

May 05, 1855 ~ Saturday

May 5th I met with the Presidency & 12 in the House of the Lord
built upon the Temple Block & we dedicated it before the Lord Broth
E. T. Benson opened by prayer & after the usual cerimonies H C kimball
proceded to dedicate the House by prayer He named in his prayer evry
room from top to bottom evry wall & material Adobies sand clay
stone Lime from the fo[u]ndation to the top prayed that the spirit of God
might enter into it that it might be clean sweet & Holy & that
no unclean thing might enter into it so that Holy men women
God & Angels might visit it. President Young said He would
name it the House of God & when the Temple is built He would
call it the Temple of our God after we closed several missionaries
received their endowments. this House was dedicated by B
Young H. C. Kimball J. M Grant O Hyde O. Pratt W. Woodruff
D Wells E. D. Woolley Dr Sprague & J Cummings. I spent the
remainder of the day & settling my business. I attended the Univers-
al scientific society in the evening we had quite a frost during the
night

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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3425 mentions
Apostle, Family
Wells, Daniel Hanmer
27 Oct 1814 - 24 Mar 1891
796 mentions
Apostle
Woolley, Edwin Dilworth
28 Jun 1807 - 14 Oct 1881
120 mentions
Missionary
Benson, Ezra Taft
22 Feb 1811 - 3 Sep 1869
378 mentions
Apostle
Kimball, Heber Chase
14 Jun 1801 - 22 Jun 1868
1455 mentions
Apostle
61 mentions
Grant, Jedediah Morgan
25 Feb 1816 - 1 Dec 1856
280 mentions
Apostle, Zion's Camp
Hyde, Orson
8 Jan 1805 - 28 Nov 1878
693 mentions
Apostle
Pratt, Orson
19 Sep 1811 - 3 Oct 1881
1083 mentions
Apostle
40 mentions

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upon the subj- ect of the resurrection. He said the Identical particles of matter in which we had honored our spirits with ie our tabernacles in which we had suffered, travelled, laboured, & built up the kingdom of God that would be the Identical body & no other that would be raised from the grave to immortality & Eternal life.
~ Brigham Young
so as soon as they began to eat of the fruit of the Earth they received into their system the seeds of mortality & of Death so their children wer mortal & subject to death sorrow pain & wo then when they partook of life, Joy, ease, & Happiness they would know how to prize it
~ Brigham Young

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Autobiography Volume 3 circa 1865-1866
I met with the Presidency and Twelve in the House of the Lord built upon the Temple Block and we dedicated it before the Lord. Brother Ezra T. Benson opened by prayer and after the usual ceremonies Heber C. Kimball proceeded to dedicate the house by prayer. He named in his dedication prayer every room from top to botton; every wall and the materials adobies sand clay stone lime, from the foundation to the top and prayed that the Spirit of God might enter into it that it might be clean sweet and holy and that no unclean thing might enter itnto it so that holy men women God and angels might visit this house dedicated unto the Lord. President Young said he would name it the House of God and when the Temple is built he would call it the Temple of our God. This house was dedicated by Brigham Young Heber C. Kimball Jedediah M. Grant Orson Hydee Orson Pratt Wilford Woodruff Daniel H. Wells E. D. Wooley Dr Sprague and James Cummings. After we closed the dedication several missionaries received their endowments.

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May 5, 1855