A Description of the Great Temple, Salt Lake City, And a Statement Concerning the Purposes for Which It Has Been Built
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That those reasons may be better appreciated, a brief state- ment is here given concerning Temples of ancient times that are mentioned in the Jewish Scriptures. HISTORICAL TEMPLES. Dictionary definitions of Temples include the follow- ing: "A holy sanctuary;" "An edifice erected in honor of Deity;" "A place in which the Divine Presence spe- 22 cially resides." God spoke to Adam in the garden of Eden, and thus, as the poet Bryant says, "The groves were God's first Temples." He selected the top o...f Mount Sinai on which to abide while making His decrees known to Israel. But, it seems that, whenever circumstances would permit, the chosen people have always been required to erect special and suitable edifices wherein to perform sacred rites, ceremonies, and ordinances acceptable to the Father, that can not be performed elsewhere, and where His Presence would be manifest. There is reason to believe that the children of Israel had a primitive structure of that character in the land of Egypt, and that they carried with them such portions of it as were portable when they fled into the wilderness.
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