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150 years ago
During a time of severe persecution, a portion of the Nauvoo (Ill.) Temple was dedicated on Sunday, Nov. 30, 1845, according to History of the Church 7:534.
At 10 a.m., President Brigham Young went to the "attic story of the Temple with Elders Heber C. Kimball, Willard Richards, Parley P. Pratt, John Taylor, Orson Hyde, George A. Smith and Amasa Lyman of the Quorum of the Twelve," along with other priesthood leaders. President Young asked William Clayton to keep minutes of the proceedings.
"I then offered up a prayer and dedicated the attic story of the Temple and ourselves to God, and prayed that God would sustain and deliver us His servants from the hands of our enemies, until we have accomplished His will in this house," said President Young.
Elder Taylor sang "A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief," after which Elder Kimball prayed that "the Lord would hear and answer the prayers of His servant Brigham, and break off the yoke of our enemies. . . ."
The History of the Church account also referred to extensive preparations to depart Nauvoo the subsequent spring for the West. Said President Young, "We trust in God, we praise Him that we have been thus far able to prepare His Temple for the ordinances of the priesthood, and we feel full of confidence that He will hear our prayers and deliver His unoffending people from the power of their enemies, and lead us to a land where we can enjoy peace for a season."
Quote from the past
"Are our minds framed to receive and profit by those communications which the Lord would give through His servants?" - President Brigham Young, in an address given Sept. 2, 1860, at the Bowery on Temple Square.
