The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-05-22

Saints bow their heads and their.
hearts with Us as We repeat these sup.
plicstlons."
He then offered up the following
prayer:
Almighty and Eternal Father, Crea
tor of heaven and earth and all that
they contain, thou who art the God
and Father of our Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ, and of the spirits of all
living; to thee, thy believing children
here present bring our offering, and
beseech thee to grant thy listening ear
while we dedicate this Temple unto
thy most holy name.
We realize our Weakness our utter
| feebleness and inability to advance the
| interests and honor of thy name upon
| the earth except thou dost guide US by
thy Holy Spirit; therefore, We humble
ours elves in thy presence and earnest
ly entreat thee to forgive us our sins
aud all vanity and unworthinesS which
| thy purity and perfection have discov-
cred in any one of US, inasmuch as we
are truly penitent therefor, and are
ready TO forgive those who trespass
against US.
We praise and adore thee for having
restored to earth again the fulness of
the Everlasting Gospel, wherein thou
dldst break the silence of ages by
| speaking tC thy servant Joseph Smith,
while yet in the days OF his youth,
and by thy presence aud thine OWE voice
| didst declare unto him thy well beloved
| Son, our Savior, in whose name alone
Immortality and eternal life can be OBJ
tanned; and thou didst teach, discipline
and empower him to bring forth thy
glorious latter day work-the dispen-
sation of the fulness of times.
With the record of the Prophet Nor
mon thou didst entrust him with the
Urim and Thummim, by which the I'M
lettered youth was enabled to trans
late the language in which it was en-
craven, though long since lost to the
human family, and thereby revealed
the origin, prosperity and downfall of
the mighty nations that inhabited this
hemisphere for more than twenty-five
centuries of time, and also informing
Us that the pure Gospel of a crucified
and risen Redeemer had been delivered
to, and mis- church established among,
them.
We praise thy name for revealing
this knowledge, which the wisdom OF
the world was unable to discover.
Also that thou didst authorize thy ser
want Joseph to baptiZe for the remiss-
Baptist to ordain Joseph to that
power; giving him also promise that
this ministry should abide in the earth
untii the sous OF Levi shall again offer
unto thee, . Lord, an offering in right
eouSneSS.
In the plenitude of thine everlasting
love thou didst also send thine Apos
ties, Peter, James and John, who con-
ferred the MelchiSedec Priesthood and
apostlesnip, which enabled the Prophet
Joseph to organize thy church and set
in order all its appointments, offices
and ordinances, with its gifts and bless
ings, as in the former dispensations.
Everlasting praise to thy holy name
for sending line upon line and precept
upon precept and continuing to reveal
the abundance of peace and truth by
sending Moses to confer the spirit with
power to gather the House of Israel
aud Elijah to turn the hearts of the
fathers to their children and the hearts
of the children to their fathers, that the
whole earth might not be smltten with
curse.
When these manifestations OF thine
untathomable love to thy Saints
stirred up the envious hate of the un-
cody to bloody persecution, imprison-
ment Of thy servants, and finally to
determination from the State of their
chosen homes, thine own right hand
brought deliyerance to thy SAINTS, and
gave them happy respite while they
built the beautiful Nauvoo. But there
the wrath of the ungodly waXed
furious again while thou didst fill thy
servant Joseph with revelations of
thy will for the upbuilding of Zion and
the eXaltation of the righteous, until
nothing could subdue their Unsuitable
fury but the life-blood of Joseph and
Hyrum and the expulsion of thy people
from the nation; yet thy loving kind
ness failed Lot and the heart of the
savage Indians, was moved to give US
kindly welcome.
We gIorify thy great and holy name,
Almighty Father, for these commupica-
ti0nS of intelligence and power to man
ia the flesh again, and that the Spirit,
foreseeing the hatred of the wicked that
would be aroused by the developments
thereof, moved thy servant Joseph to
seal all these keys of power'and intelli-
gence which he had received upon the
heads of his brethren the Apostles,
with commandment that they should
build up thy kingdom and establish
its righteousness IN the earth till thy
Son, our Savior, shall come.
Thy people being under a sense of
these weighty obligations, and being
driven ou5 from among men, it seemed
proper to thee to make thy SER
want Brigham mighty in wisdom ard
strength to lead forth thy people in
safety, and after year and half's
journey in the desert among savage
tribes, thou diast give US rest in
these valleys of the Rocky Mountains.
In all these tribulatiens thine ear heard
and thine own arm brought answers Of
deliverance to the supplications Of
thine afflicted children. Nor vast
thou weary of their necessities and
entreaties, but didSt soften the
risor of unfriendly elements and
didst cause the clouds to scat
ter refreshing showers, the hills
to yield their treasures of snow
and springs of living water to come
forth from the dry and parChed ground.
The labor of TIE husbandman has been
crowned with plenty for man and
beast, and much where with to bless
the stranger. The everlasting hills have
yielded their rich treasures OF iron, lead,
silver and gold, while lightning and
steam have contributed TO gather thy
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