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Joseph,
Joseph, Joseph
The
Temple Has Returned to Nauvoo
by
Scot Facer Proctor
Photo Essay
Two: Interior Views of the Nauvoo Temple from the Official Collections
of The Church
Used
by Permission of Intellectual Reserve
All
Photographs Copyright 2002 Intellectual Reserve
Celestial
Room, Bridal and Sealing Room
Beautiful
Eastern Windows of Celestial Room (Click to enlarge)
But how are
they to become saviors on Mount Zion? By building their temples,
erecting their baptismal fonts, and going forth and receiving all
the ordinances, baptisms, confirmations, washings, anointings, ordinations
and sealing powers upon their heads, in behalf of all their progenitors
who are dead, and redeem them that they may come forth in the first
resurrection and be exalted to thrones of glory with them; and herein
is the chain that binds the hearts of the fathers to the children,
and the children to the fathers, which fulfills the mission of Elijah.
And I would to God that this temple was now done, that we might
go into it, and go to work and improve our time, and make use of
the seals while they are on earth.
View
of Celestial Room (Click to enlarge)
The Saints have
not too much time to save and redeem their dead, and gather together
their living relatives, that they may be saved also, before the
earth will be smitten, and the consumption decreed falls upon the
world.
Details
of Celestial Room (Click to enlarge)
I would advise
all the Saints to go with their might and gather together all their
living relatives to this place, that they may be sealed and saved,
that they may be prepared against the day that the destroying angel
goes forth; and if the whole Church should go to with all their
might to save their dead, seal their posterity, and gather their
living friends, and spend none of their time in behalf of the world,
they would hardly get through before night would come, when no man
can work; and my only trouble at the present time is concerning
ourselves, that the Saints will be divided,
broken up, and
scattered, before we get our salvation secure; for there are
so many fools in the world for the devil to operate upon, it gives
him the advantage oftentimes.
Bridal
Room (Click to enlarge)
The question
is frequently asked, "Can we not be saved without going through
with all those ordinances?" I would answer, No, not the fulness
of salvation. Jesus said, There are many mansions in my Father's
house, and I will go and prepare a place for you. House
here named should have been translated kingdom; and any person who
is exalted to the highest mansion has to abide a celestial law,
and the whole law too.
Sealing
Room (Click to enlarge)
But there has
been a great difficulty in getting anything into the heads of this
generation. It has been like splitting hemlock knots with a corn-dodger
for a wedge, and a pumpkin for a beetle. Even the Saints are slow
to understand.
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