Wilford Woodruff records Joseph Smith, Jr. declaring that once the Nauvoo temple is finished ordinances for the living and dead can be performed.

Date
Apr 8, 1844
Type
Personal Journal / Diary
Source
Joseph Smith, Jr.
LDS
Hearsay
Scribed Verbatim
Direct
Reference

Discourse, 8 April 1844, as Reported by Wilford Woodruff, Wilford Woodruff Papers website, accessed January 31, 2024

Scribe/Publisher
Wilford Woodruff
People
Joseph Smith, Jr.
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

the mountain of the Lords House is in the centre of North & South

America, when the house is done, Baptism font erected

and finished & the worthy are washed, anointed, endowed

& ordained kings & priests, which must be done

in this life, when the place is prepared you must

go through all the ordinances of the house of the

Lord so that you who have any dead friends must

go through all the ordinances for them the same as

for yourselves;

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