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Feb 25, 1877

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February 25, 1877 ~ Sunday

25 Sunday I atteded Meeting at the Tabernacle H Eyring Pr[ayed]
W^m Folesome spoke 13 M[inutes] W Woodruff 35, A H Raleigh 11 M[inutes]
I spent the Evening with President Young I received two
letters from Emma & Eugenia & Phebe Scholes I wrote
1 to Phebe & Nellie

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Discourse 1877-02-25

Br Woodroof spoke in a powerfull manner on the privelleges the saints engoyed in going forth in peace and attending to the ordinances in the temple for their dead showed that we should not with- hold the blessings from them when we have the power to and opportunity of giving them, and thus vertualy being Saviors on Mount Zion. Br Raleigh bore

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January 1, 1877

Wilford, , and dedicate portions of .

Church membership reaches 115,065.

January 9, 1877

First baptism for the dead administered in font.

January 11, 1877

First proxy endowments administered in this dispensation in .

January 11, 1877

First proxy sealings and first sealings and endowments for the living in .

January 14, 1877

asks Wilford and others to write out the temple ceremonies.

January 16, 1877

Wilford administers second anointing to the first couple in the .

February 7, 1877

Wilford administers second anointing by proxy for the first time in the .

February 23, 1877

Wilford receives revelation authorizing proxy ordinances for his family by non-relatives.

In honor of Wilford's 70th birthday, 154 women serve as proxies in ordinances for his deceased female relatives.

inaugurated as 19th President of 38 United States.

Wilford sealed to by her father .

Wilford and others finished writing down the ceremonies and temple procedures.

Wilford administered first adoptions (two couples to ) in .

Wilford's wife , and children , and arrive in to serve in .

First time Wilford ever served as proxy in endowment when he completed endowment for "Prophet" .

General Conference held in completed , dedication of entire temple.

Wilford called to preside over the at age 70 (served until June 26, 1884).

First time anyone adopted (sealed) by ordinance to Wilford: , and their wives.

Wilford's family leaves to return to .

Wilford resigns as President of the Deseret Agricultural and Manufacturing Society after 15 years.

Site for dedicated by .

Feb 25, 1877