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50 years ago
The meetinghouses of the Church stand as witnesses of God, said President David O. McKay during dedicatory services for the Ogden (Utah) Tabernacle on Sunday, Feb. 12, 1956, according to the Feb. 18, 1956, Church News.
"What does this beautiful edifice stand for?" President McKay asked. "Can you express it in a sentence? A place for eleven stakes in which to meet for conference? Yes. A place in which to worship the Lord? Yes. May it always be a sacred place bringing reverence to the hearts of those who enter. A message which 2,700 other chapels in our Church gives to the world. This house should forever radiate the truth expressed as follows by Peter on a very important occasion when he faced those who had arrested him: 'For there is none other name under heaven given among me, whereby we must be saved.' (Acts 4:12.) That is the message; the sacrifice, the life, the resurrection of our beloved Savior and the gospel which He gave."
The Church News also reported that South Ogden Utah Stake President William J. Critchlow "said some day it may be possible that a temple might be erected between the new Tabernacle and the older edifice, still standing on the southeast corner of the block."
That site is now the location of the Ogden Utah Temple.
