DISCOURSE BY PRESIDENT WILFORD WOODRUFF.

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I WANT to lay before you what there is for us to do at this present time;
and in doing this I desire particularly the attention of President Lorenzo
Snow, of the Salt Lake Temple; President M. W. Merrill, of the Logan
Temple; President J. D. T. McAllister, of the Manti Temple; and Presi-
dent D. H. Cannon, of the St. George Temple, and those associated with
them. You have acted up to all the light and knowledge that you have
had; but you have now something more to do than what you have done.
We have not fully carried out those principles in fulfillment of the revela-
tions of God to us, in sealing the hearts of the fathers to the children and
the children to the fathers. I have not felt satisfied, neither did President
Taylor, neither has any man since the Prophet Joseph who has attended
to the ordinance of adoption in the temples of our God. We have felt
that there was more to be revealed upon this subject than we had received.
Revelations were given to us in the St. George Temple, which President
Young presented to the Church of God. Changes were made there, and we
still have more changes to make, in order to satisfy our Heavenly Father,
satisfy our dead and ourselves. I will tell you what some of them are. I
have prayed over this matter, and my brethren have. We have felt, as
President Taylor said, that we have got to have more revelation concerning
sealing under the law of adoption. Well, what are these changes? One
of them is the principle of adoption. In the commencement of adopting
men and women in the Temple at Nauvoo, a great many persons were
adopted to different men who were not of the lineage of their fathers,
and there was a spirit manifested by some in that work that was not of
God. Men would go out and electioneer and labor with all their power

DISCOURSE BY PRESIDENT WILFORD WOODRUFF.

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I WANT to lay before you what there is for us to do at this present time; and in doing this I desire particularly the attention of President Lorenzo Snow, of the Salt Lake Temple; President M. W. Merrill, of the Logan Temple; President J. D. T. McAllister, of the Manti Temple; and President D. H. Cannon, of the St. George Temple, and those associated with them. You have acted up to all the light and knowledge that you have had; but you have now something more to do than what you have done. We have not fully carried out those principles in fulfillment of the revelations of God to us, in sealing the hearts of the fathers to the children and the children to the fathers. I have not felt satisfied, neither did President Taylor, neither has any man since the Prophet Joseph who has attended to the ordinance of adoption in the temples of our God. We have felt that there was more to be revealed upon this subject than we had received. Revelations were given to us in the St. George Temple, which President Young presented to the Church of God. Changes were made there, and we still have more changes to make, in order to satisfy our Heavenly Father, satisfy our dead and ourselves. I will tell you what some of them are. I have prayed over this matter, and my brethren have. We have felt, as President Taylor said, that we have got to have more revelation concerning sealing under the law of adoption. Well, what are these changes? One of them is the principle of adoption. In the commencement of adopting men and women in the Temple at Nauvoo, a great many persons were adopted to different men who were not of the lineage of their fathers, and there was a spirit manifested by some in that work that was not of God. Men would go out and electioneer and labor with all their power