The Prophet Joseph Smith laid the foundation of this Church and King- dom and revealed those principles unto us; but no principle had ever been reve[a]led from God to man which had given the Latter-day Saints more joy and consolation than the revelations whereby the Lord had fulfilled the prophecy of one of the ancient prophets, who said that in the last days He would raise up saviors upon Mount Zion, while the Kingdom was the Lord's. That day had come.

At his own advanced age he thanked God that he was surrounded by a quorum of Apostles among whom there existed such a spirit of unity; they were united as the heart of one man. He firmly believed that any one of them would die for him if needs be, and he would do the same for either of them should the Lord require it at his hands. There was a love between all of them that the world knew not of—a love which distinguished all men who bore the Priesthood from the rest of the world.

He himself well remembered the time when that revelation was given —the feeling which thrilled their hearts and souls when they realized that in their day and generation they had the power to go forth and attend to these ordinances for their dead progenitors, the same as for those who were still living in the flesh. They did not hesitate, as soon as that revela- tion came, to make a commencement of this Temple work, and there were scores of men around him today who had labored for years in these temples in this way. He greatly rejoiced at the thought that when he himself entered the spirit world he would meet those of his pro- genitors who, perhaps, had never heard the true Gospel, who never saw a prophet, apostle, or other inspired man while in the flesh; and as Jesus went and "preached to the spirits in prison" in His day, so would those men who now lived and held the keys of the Priesthood when they passed behind the veil also preach to "spirits in prison," open the prison doors and let the prisoners free. In all his labors in the cause of this Gospel, for some sixty years, there was no kind of work which he had per- formed with greater satisfaction than that of redemption of his dead