Discourse 1883-08-05
APOSTLE WILFORD WOODRUFF
said: Sixteen years ago I visited
Logan with President Young. The
boys and girls turned out to meet us,
and we held a meeting in the Bowery.
President Young asked me to ta[l]k.
I did so, and predicted that many
who were present would yet be per-
mitted to stand on top of a Temple
erected upon the bench overlooking
this city, and look down from thence
over tens of thousands of Latter-day
Saints, whose homes would be in this
valley. At that time, no one as far
as I know, had thought of erecting a
Temple there, but we see the predic-
tion fulfilled.
The speaker related a striking
dream which he had in Boston, in
the early days of the Church, in
which he saw the Saints assemble in
the Rocky Mountains, build a Temp[l]e,
and engage in sacred work there[i]n.
In this dream, he also saw the Laman-
ites enter the Temple, and he beheld
them working in it. This dream was
had long before any one in the
Church, so far as was known, ent[e]r-
tained the thought of the Saints
coming to these valleys.
The speaker discoursed upon the
progress the work of God is making
in these mountains, and exhorted the
Saints to be united in their political
as well as all their other interests and
affairs.
