Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 436, 20 April 1892 — THE TEMPLE OF ZION. [ARTICLE]

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THE TEMPLE OF ZION.

Afler two score years of labor the Holy Mount (Sait Lake) the City of thtS;in'B pro«iucecl that Templc stapposed to be for the gatneniig in of ihe remnant people in tho laāt days. M»ny indeed eame frora the east &nd from tbe west, and frora the Isles of Ihe seae, tu see this great Btrubture and to witnesa iU faraml dedication, whose eapilone was laid 011 April 6th. The buUding enjoys the di«tinction ofl>cing the eecond co3tlicst and most eiaborate siaAtical gtructure in the l T nited Statea. Ite hifctory in 1847, when Brigham Vonng, in compa\m* with aparty of \Saints." while takinga walk, was eeized with an I i£ispiration to buil<l a temple to the trae Go<.l t striking llie ground at the isaine ume, and cxe!aiming that that was tiie spot. Tlms ideniieal spot was l«x\iie(l and mar-. kad as the centre of the whieh is now cjui]>loted to-day, after over forty ycars v>f labor anil visissitudefi, 1 over $4,000.000. This temple, aeconjing to Moiiaion traditTCT;i, i> r!tipposecl t»i by that tomplt' !iiciitifuied in lloiy | Scripture whieli wiN bo the refuge iof the SainU in tho last davs. We (are afraid, however, that our l T tah jfriends are slight!v iuixc(l, whoh j they imagine that .Salt Lake an<jl | j its Temple, ropßseiiis that >Xstter i r country, \vhose rity and temple 1 hath fouii(iat : .ons, whose l)uilder | and maker is (n>«U a!»d unto whem ! !as Mount Zion, aiul the heavenly !4cruflftl£m* an innurnerable. eom:pativof »a i n 11? nh :i 11 > gathered. | i . " *• » -—- : .