I will refer to one more instance in my experience upon the subject of revelation
all the Latter Day Saints understand that we build Temples for the
purpose of administering ordinances for our dead as well as for the
living, and the Lord has opened the way in a remarkable manner
for many of the members of the Church to obtain records of the
names of their dead for several generation I had also obtained
a record of some over 3000 of my Father & Mother family, after the
Dedication of the Temple in St George president Young appointed me
to preside over it, and when we commenced with in the Temple I
begun to reflect how can I redeem my dead, I have some 3000 name
who are dead, that have been baptized for and how can I get endowments
for them I had none of my family there, and if I had they would not
be able to get endowments for so many. And while praying to the Lord to
show me how I could redeem my dead the Spirit of God rested upon
me and the voice of the spirit of God said to me go to and call upon
the Son & Daughter of Zion in St George, to come into the temple
of the Lord and get their Endowments for your dead and it shall be
acceptable unto me saith the Lord, this fulled my soul with joy
and turned a key that opened a field as wide as eternity for the salvation
of our dead, and the redemption of man that we might magnify
our calling as Saviors upon Mount Zion. And one my birth day
, the day that I was 70 years, 154 sisters of St George
went into the Temple & got Endowments for so many of the female portion of
my dead and this principle was received by president Young and
adopted from this hour and through the assistans of friends I have
had nearly 2000 of my dead received Endowments in the Temple of the Lord
I will refer to one more instance in my experience upon the subject of revelation
all the Latter Day Saints understand that we build Temples for the
purpose of administering ordinances for our dead as well as for the
living, and the Lord has opened the way in a remarkable manner
for many of the members of the Church to obtain records of the
names of their dead for several generation I had also obtained
a record of some over 3000 of my Father & Mother family, after the
Dedication of the Temple in St George president Young appointed me
to preside over it, and when we commenced with in the Temple I
begun to reflect how can I redeem my dead, I have some 3000 name
who are dead, that have been baptized for and how can I get endowments
for them I had none of my family there, and if I had they would not
be able to get endowments for so many. And while praying to the Lord to
show me how I could redeem my dead the Spirit of God rested upon
me and the voice of the spirit of God said to me go to and call upon
the Son & Daughter of Zion in St George, to come into the temple
of the Lord and get their Endowments for your dead and it shall be
acceptable unto me saith the Lord, this fulled my soul with joy
and turned a key that opened a field as wide as eternity for the salvation
of our dead, and the redemption of man that we might magnify
our calling as Saviors upon Mount Zion. And one my birth day
, the day that I was 70 years, 154 sisters of St George
went into the Temple & got Endowments for so many of the female portion of
my dead and this principle was received by president Young and
adopted from this houn and through the assistans of friends I have
had nearly 2000 of my dead received Endowments in the Temple of the Lord
"Autobiography 1882 Leaves from My Journal Notes 3," p. 13, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed September 1, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/m8xO