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In
1882, David John was called from Provo to serve as a Temple missionary in the
St. George Temple. What was his surprise when he started his temple work?
a.
Learning that the endowment was not given in Kirtland
b.
Discovering that a man could only be sealed to one plural wife
c.
Hearing that the temple was constructed on a swamp
d.
Having it made known to him that Wilford Woodruff did the temple
work for all the U.S. Presidents except for Martin Van Buren
Yesterday’s answer:
C 1882
And
while it is true that the Order as an economic experiment eventually failed and
faded away (John Taylor ended it in 1882), it accomplished much. It promoted
thrift, created employment, and assured better, faster development of
resources. Again from Arrington: “The United Order . . . helped to keep Utah
economically independent of the East longer and more completely than would
otherwise have been the case.” And spiritually, many managed to live by the
precepts of “the great experiment.” Its central spiritual emphasis—obedience to
the law of consecration—live on inside the walls of the temple, where it found
permanent expression in temple ordinances. Brigham Young was reported to have
said, “Several attempts had been made to work in the United Order, and almost
as many failures were the result. In consequence of tradition and the weakness
of our human nature, we could not bring our feelings to obey this Holy
requirement. The spirt had prompted him to see if the brethren would do
anything by way of an approach to it, and hence we had commence to build
Temples, which was a very necessary work and which was centering the feelings
of the people for a still further union of effort. “What was the United Order?”
asked Brigham Young’s son Apostle Brigham Young Jr. in April 1877. “It was the
order of heaven, the system which prevailed among the heavenly hosts, as we
should find when we get to where God and His Christ dwelt. . . The progress of
the members of this Church who will not receive and carry out the principles of
the United order is at an end; and this temple [Saint George] will be a means
to test the faithfulness an purity of the Latter-day Saints.”
“Which
is the Wisest Course,” The Transformation in Mormon Temple Consciousness,
1870-1898. Richard E. Bennett, BYU
Studies Vol. 52, No. 2, 2013, 16.
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