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pany. We had in Zion's Camp two
hundred and five souls. We had in the
Pioneer Camp one hundred and forty-
five, I believe. And I can testify be-
fore God, angels and men that the same
power, and the same spirit of revela-
tion were manifest in his work
up to the day of his death as
were manifest in the work of the Proph-
et Joseph. It is true, Joseph Smith's
life was short. The Savior labored
only three and a half years, after He
entered into the ministry, before He
was crucified. The Prophet Joseph
labored fourteen years before He was
martyred. President Brigham Young
lived longer. He led this Church
quite a number of years. I was with
him when he came into this valley. I
was in the same carriage with him.
He was taken sick on the Weber. A
number of the camp were taken sick,
caused, no doubt, by the change in
coming to these mountains from the
region we had left. He began to re-
cover from the hour that he entered
into this valley. He came here, and
what did he do? I will name a few
circumstances. He pitched camp
some distance southeast of here. The
next morning he and the Twelve who
came with him took a walk. He had
been quite feeble, but he was then able
to walk with the assistance of his staff.
We walked along until we came to this
Temple Block. It was covered with
sagebrush. There was no mark to in-
dicate that God ever intended to place
anything there. But while walking
along Brother Brigham stopped very
suddenly. He stuck his cane in the
ground and said, "Right here
will stand the great Temple
of our God." We drove a stake
in the place indicated by him, and that
particular spot is situated in the middle
of the Temple site. One of the first
things President Young did after he
got here was to order the preparing of
a block down here, called the Old Fort,
where the camp could gather to. This
country then was very desolate, cov-
ered with wild sage, and that pretty
near dead, too. There was hardly any-
thing here with life, owing to the ex-
cessive dryness. We went to work and
surrounded this ten acre block to pre-
serve ourselves; put adobie walls on
three sides and log cabins on the east
side. This was the wisdom displayed
by President Brigham Young all his
life—care and caution, and safety for
the people. He then went to work and
laid out this city. There was not a
living soul in this valley excepting a
few Indians who would eat roasted
crickets for their dinner. He laid out
these streets, these sidewalks, these
blocks. He laid out this Temple block
here. A number of councils were had
with regard to it. Brother George A.
Smith was very anxious that we
should have forty acres instead of ten;
so much so that there was a vote taken
to lay forty acres out. After-
wards President Young thought ten
acres in a city of this kind was
all that should be devoted to an
interest of this character. So Brother
George A. Smith surrendered his
views, and we all voted for ten acres.
When the city was laid out and these
other arrangements made we returned
to Winter Quarters, where President
Young got his family and returned
with them and some of the Saints; and
two or three companies followed the
same season.

I name these things for the benefit
of those who consider that there has
been no growth in the Church and
Kingdom of God since the death of the
Prophet Joseph. President Young
laid the foundation of four Temples in
this Territory. Three of these Temples
are now in operation, and the other is
being built right here. The Latter-day
Saints have gone to work and labored
in these Temples by the command-
ment of God, for the blessing of the
living and redemption of their dead,
and a million of men and women,
whose bodies are returned to dust, and
whose spirits are in the spirit world,
have received the benefits of the Gos-
pel by the power of God and the work
of the Elders, under the direction of
President Young. Is this a
loss of prestige? Is there no
hand of God in this? Is there no pro-
gress in this? These things certainly
were not accomplished in the life of
Joseph Smith, although Joseph Smith
received revelations with regard to
Temples, and the ordinances and en-
dowments afterwards administered in
the Temple at Nauvoo. He also built
the first Temple, in Kirtland, and
many blessings were revealed in that
Temple, and this work was continued
while he lived, as far as he had the
power. I remember well the first
time I read the revelation given
through the Prophet Joseph concern-
ing the redemption of the dead—one of
the most glorious principles I had ever
become acquainted with on earth. To
think that I and these Latter-day
Saints could go forth into the waters
of baptism and redeem our fathers, our
mothers, and those that have gone be-
fore us, in the lineage of our father's
house, and they come forth and re-
ceive a part in the first resurrection!
Well might the Prophet say God has
fulfilled His promise that in the last
days He would raise up saviors upon
Mount Zion, and the kingdom should
be the Lord's. Never did I read a
revelation with greater joy than I did
that revelation. I have often re-
ferred to the course we pursued
in connection with that. Joseph
Smith himself (many of you may recol-
lect the time) went into the Mississippi
river one Sunday night after meeting,
and baptized a hundred. I baptized
another hundred. The next man, a few
rods from me, baptized another hun-
dred. We were strung up and down
the Mississippi, baptizing for our dead.
But there was no recorder; we attended
to this ordinance without waiting to
have a proper record made. But the
Lord told Joseph that he must have
recorders present at these baptisms—
men who could see with their eyes and
hear with their ears, and record these
things. [##Isaiah 6:10##] Of course, we had to do the
work over again. Nevertheless, that
does not say the work was not of God.

Well, the Lord manifested a great
work in the labor of Brigham Young.
He filled these mountains here for a
thousand miles, under His direction,
with cities, towns and villages. He
gave counsel in all these things. Brig-
ham Young was the architect of
this building (the Tabernacle). He
was the architect of the Temple that
we are building here. I say to the
Latter-day Saints that God was with
him. He was with John Taylor. He
has been with Wilford Woodruff. He
will be with those that follow me; for
the Lord will never permit this people
to be led only by the revelations of
Jesus Christ. He will be with these
Apostles of the Lord, and will con-
tinue with them until the coming of
the Son of Man. These things are
true. Zion will arise, and grow, and
flourish; the glory of God will rest
upon her, and the Lord Almighty will
fulfil all the promises that He has
made concerning His work in the last
dispensation and fullness of times.
The spirit of inspiration was with
Brigham Young from the day that he
entered into this work till he laid down
his life here upon his bed. I bear my
testimony to these things. There
never has been a time, either in these
Temples or anywhere else, but the
Lord has made manifest His will on
any point on which light was desired.
To my certain knowledge the Lord
gave revelations in St. George Temple
to His servants there, upon points of
doctrine we did not understand.
President Young was there. I was
there. Brother McAllister and others
labored there; and we knew these things.
So I say there is no man that goes into
these Temples to labor, or goes into the
vineyard of the Lord to labor, who, if
he will live his religion and do his duty,
will fail in receiving the mind and
will of God. Yes, the Lord has raised
up saviors upon Mount Zion, and the
kingdom is the Lord's. It is His work.
And we have the great power as
Latter-day Saints to go into these
temples and redeem our dead, and at-
tend to ordinances for them that they
never heard of in their day and gener-
ation. What will be the condition of
these saviors upon Mount Zion? These
Saints of the Lord will hold the keys of
salvation to their Father's house to the
endless ages of eternity. There never
will be a time when that power will be
taken from them. We ought to realize
these things, and we ought to prize the
blessings which God has put in our
hands. I had a great desire, when that
revelation was given, for the redemp-
tion of my Father's house. Father
Smith was the first patriarch to the
Church. He was a literal descendant
of Joseph who was sold into Egypt.
When he laid his hands upon men's
heads the spirit of blessing and of
prophecy rested upon him. He told
me that I should bring all of
my father's house into the Church.
I dwelt upon that with a great deal of
interest; and the first time I visited
my father's house, although it was
several years after this, I baptized him
into this Church, and my stepmother,
and my sisters, and everybody that
was in my father's house, even a
Methodist class-leader who was board-
ing there. I organized a branch of the
Church in Farmington, Connecticut,
and almost all of the members were
my relatives. I afterwards brought
my father up here, where he died, and
his body lies in the cemetery.

There are a great many things con-
nected with these matters that I feel to
rejoice in. The more light we have,
the more revelations of God we have,
the more we shall prize these privi-
leges. It is a great blessing that we
stand in the flesh in this last dispensa-
tion and fulness of times; and where
we can open our hearts to understand
these blessings, all of us will labor, as
far as we have opportunity, to attend
to this duty for our dead. I do not