the Saints of God gatherd, Zion built up, & the
Saints to come up as saviors on mount Zion [Obadiah 1:21]
but how are they to become saviors on Mount
Zion by building their temples erecting their
Baptismal fonts & going forth & receiving all
the ordinances, Baptisms, confirmations, washings
anointings, ordinations, & sealing powers upon
our heads in behalf of all our Progenitors who
are dead & redeem them that they may come
forth in the first resurrection & be exhalted to
thrones of glory with us, & herein is the chain
that binds the hearts of the fathers to the children
& the children to the Fathers [Malachi 4:6] which fulfills
the mission of Elijah & I would to God that
this temple was now done that we might go
into it & go to work & improve our time &
make use of the seals while they are on earth & the Saints have none to much time to save
& redeem their dead, & gather together their
living relatives that they may be saved also, before
the earth will be smitten & the consumption
decreed falls upon the world & I would advise
all the Saints to go to with their might & gather
together all their living relatives to this place that
they may be sealed & saved that they may
be prepared against the day that the destroying
angel goes forth & if the whole Church should
go to with all their might to save their dead
seal their posterity & gather their living friends
& spend none of their time in behalf of the
world they would hardly get through before
night would come when no man could work
& my ownly trouble at the present time
is concerning ourselves that the Saints
will be divided & broken up & scattered
the saints of God gatherd, Zion built up, & the
saints to come up as saviors on mount Zion
but how are they to become Saviors on Mount
Zion by building their temples erecting their
Baptismal fonts & going forth & receiving all
the ordinances, baptisms, confirmations, washings
anointings ordinations, & sealing powers upon
our heads in behalf of all our Progenitors who
are dead & redeem them that they may come
forth in the first resurrection & be exhalted to
thrones of glory with us, & herein is the chain
that binds the hearts of the fathers to the children,
& the children to the Fathers which fulfills
the mission of Elijah & I would to God that
this temple was now done that we might go
into it & go to work & improve our time &
make use of the seals while they are on earth
& the saints have none to much time to save
& redeem their dead, & gather together their
living relatives that they may be saved also, before
the earth will be smitten & the consumption
decreed falls upon the world & I would advise
all the saints to go to with their might & gather
together all their living relatives to this place that
they may be sealed & saved that they may
be prepared against the day that the destroying
angel goes forth & if the whole Church should
go to with all their might to save their dead
seal their posterity & gather their living friends
& spend none of their time in behalf of the
world they would hardly get through before
night would come when no man could work
& my ownly trouble at the present time
is concerning ourselves that the saints
will be divided & broken up & scattered
"Journal (January 1, 1843 – December 31, 1844)," January 21, 1844, The Wilford Woodruff Papers, accessed December 22, 2024, https://wilfordwoodruffpapers.org/p/zQ2