Whenever God had a Church upon the earth, these gifts were enjoyed by the peo- ple. The sick were healed of their sickness, the lame were made to walk, the blind to see, the dumb to speak, etc., through the administrations of those among them who held the Priesthood

And instead of the work of the latter-day stopping, or its progress being retarded in consequence of the death of our beloved President, it will move forward with accelerated speed, until Zion arises in beauty, and power, and dominion, in fulfil- ment of the inspired words of Pro- phets and Seers who have spoken, and who, while wrapt in heavenly vision, saw our day.

The Gospel must be thoroughly and faithfully preached to every nation under heaven, and the Lord holds us responsible, for verily the trust has been imposed upon us, and it behooves us to see to it.

and it is our duty to rise up and build these Temples. I look upon this portion of our min- istry as a mission of as much import- ance as preaching to the living; the dead will hear the voice of the ser- vants of God in the spirit-world, and they cannot come forth in the morning of the resurrection, unless certain ordinances are performed, for and in their behalf, in Temples built to the name of God. It takes just as much to save a dead man as a living man.

I feel to say little else to the Latter-day Saints wherever and whenever I have the opportu- nity of speaking to them, than to call upon them to build these Tem- ples now under way, to hurry them up to completion. The dead will be after you, they will seek after you as they have after us in St. George. They called upon us, knowing that we held the keys and power to re- deem them.

I will here say, before closing, that two weeks before I left St. George, the spirits of the dead gath- ered around me, wanting to know why we did not redeem them. Said they, "You have had the use of the Endowment House for a num- ber of years, and yet nothing has ever been done for us. We laid the foundation of the government you now enjoy, and we never apos- tatized from it, but we remained true to it and were faithful to God." These were the signers of the De- claration of Independence, and they waited on me for two days and two nights. I thought it very singular, that notwithstanding so much work had been done, and yet nothing had been done for them. The thought never entered my heart, from the fact, I suppose, that here- tofore our minds were reaching after our more immediate friends and relatives. I straightway went into the baptismal font and called upon brother McCallister to baptize me for the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and fifty other eminent men, making one hundred in all, including John Wesley, Col- umbus, and others; I then baptized him for every President of the Uni- ted States, except three; and when their cause is just, somebody will do the work for them.

I straightway went into the baptismal font and called upon brother McCallister to baptize me for the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and fifty other eminent men, making one hundred in all, including John Wesley, Col- umbus, and others; I then baptized him for every President of the Uni- ted States, except three; and when their cause is just, somebody will do the work for them.

When the Savior comes, a thousand years will be devoted to this work of redemption; and Temples will appear all over this land of Joseph, --North and South America--and also in Europe and elsewhere; and all the descendants of Shem, Ham, and Japheth who received not the Gospel in the flesh, must be offi- ciated for in the Temples of God, before the Savior can present the kingdom to the Father, saying, "It is finished."