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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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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.
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
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