Melbourne dedicatory prayer excerpts: 'A peculiar and wonderful sanctity'
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Following are excerpts from the dedicatory prayer for the Melbourne Australia Temple given by President Gordon B. Hinckley on June 16, 2000. Full text of the dedicatory prayer can be found on the Church News Web site:
[The Melbourne Australia Temple] is now vested with a peculiar and wonderful sanctity. Henceforth it will be open only to those who are properly recommended as worthy to enter its portals. As they come here, we pray that Thou wilt endow them with special blessings, with sacred covenants, with wondrous promises that only Thou canst give. May they know that they walk through sacred halls. May they always act reverently as Thy guests. May they leave rejoicing, standing taller as sons and daughters of God, with strengthened resolve to walk in Thy paths.
We pray for all who shall serve here, for the temple presidency and the matron and her assistants, for all of the workers, and for all who will give time and strength in keeping Thy house clean and beautiful. . . .
We are grateful for this nation of Australia, where we may worship Thee in peace, without molestation or fear or threat. Bless this land that is may remain ever strong, a nation of peace and progress among the nations of the earth.
