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President Heber C. Kimball
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I have a few thoughts and reflections I would like to present to my friends, the Latter-day Saints. Fifty-two years ago the twenty-sixth day of this month I stood upon the Temple Block in Far West. Joseph Smith, Hyrum Smith, Parley P Pratt and others were in prison. The Lord had given a revelation and commanded us, as the Apostles, to go there upon that occasion to lay the foundation of that Temple. He appointed a day and a date on which we were commanded to perform this work. Then all was peace in Caldwell County, where we dwelt. The Lord perfectly understood what would take place before that time came. When the time came to fulfil this revelation the Latter-day Saints were in Illinois, they having been driven out of Missouri. The spirit of opposition was so great that our lives were in jeopardy in returning there to perform the revelation. When the day came for us to go there our Prophet was in prison for the Word of God and testimony of Jesus. When we conversed with our patriarch and leading men, they said the Lord would take the will for the deed. They did not think it was wisdom for us to go; for Missourians had sworn by all the gods in existence that if all the other revelations and prophecies of "Joe Smith" had been fulfilled, that this one should not be, because there was a day and date to it. After hearing the views of Father Smith and others of the brethren, Brother Brigham Young asked the Twelve what their feelings were with regard to this. We told Brother Brigham that the Lord God had spoken and we were ready to obey, and leave the event in His hands. We did. We went there. We arrived at that place, according to that revelation and commandment, on the 26th day of April, 1839. We laid the corner stone of that Temple, with Father Cutler, who had been appointed to oversee that building. After that stone was laid we knelt upon it, and Brother Geo. A. Smith and myself, who had been called by revelation to fill the places of some who had fallen, were ordained Apostles under the hands of
President Wilford Woodruff
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Counselor in the First Presidency The following morning at the Hotel Muelbach in Kansas City where we stayed overnight we reflected upon the historic significance to the Church of the places visited the previous day—Independence the “center place of Zion,” where one day the city of Zion with the temple of the New Jerusalem will be built; Liberty, where the Prophet Joseph and his brother Hyrum spent a cold winter in a crude stone jail without heat or any comforts, but where an important revelation on the priesthood was received; Far West, a place of suffering and hardship for the saints, but here also many important revelations were received, and where, in the due time of the Lord a city of Zion will be built with a temple; Adam-ondi-Ahman, where Michael the Ancient of Days will return to earth to meet with the prophets and patriarchs, and then as the Prince will pay homage to the Holy One of Israel, who will come to receive the dominion of the earth. ... Later in the morning as we were waiting to take off from Denver, the President was asked if the trip was worthwhile. His answer was, “O yes, O yes!” He was also asked what place or part of the tour impressed him the most. His answer was, “It is difficult to say for it is all linked together.” He spoke of the sacredness and beauty of Adam-ondi-Ahman and that he was greatly moved by the sacredness of the events that had transpired at
President Alvin R. Dyer
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