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25 years ago
"The new, modernistic Ogden Temple was dedicated this past week by President Joseph Fielding Smith as `another house in which the ordinances of salvation and exaltation shall be performed for the living and the dead,' " reported the Jan. 22, 1971, Church News.
The dedication was the first in Utah since the Salt Lake Temple was dedicated in 1893, some 78 years previously. The article noted that President Smith had also attended the dedication ceremony for the Salt Lake Temple. At the Ogden Temple dedication, he was accompanied by his counselors, President Harold B. Lee and President N. Eldon Tanner.
The new temple was the 16th to be dedicated in the Church and would be the 14th in operation. The Ogden Temple would be followed by the dedication of the Provo Temple on Feb. 9.
Nearly all the General Authorities attended the first session at the Ogden Temple, traveling to the temple site by bus, accompanied by their wives.
In his remarks in the first session, President Smith told those attending:
"May I remind you that when we dedicate a house to the Lord, what we really do is dedicate ourselves to the Lord's service, with a covenant that we shall use the house in the way He intends that it shall be used."
Quote from the past
"Let us look around us and see how quickly men who attempt to unauthoritatitively steady the ark die spiritually. Their souls become embittered, their minds distorted, their judgment faulty, and their spirit depressed." - President David O. McKay, second counselor in the First Presidency, in the April 5, 1936 general conference
