“The temples, the houses of our God, when acceptably dedicated, become to us the gates of heaven. They are esteemed most holy unto the Lord of all places upon the earth, therein the faithful approach nearest unto God, and obtain the greatest fellowship and inspiration of His Holy Spirit.”
These words, spoken by Franklin D. Richards of the Quorum of the Twelve, typify the often-reiterated Latter-day Saint belief that the Savior, the hosts of heaven, and beings from the spirit world only manifest themselves in specifically designated sanctuaries, namely, the holy temples. And President Wilford Woodruff, in speaking to the workmen completing the Salt Lake Temple in the forpart of 1893, said that the dedication of the Temple on April 6, 1893 was shown him in vision fifty years earlier in the city of Boston, He went on to say that the laborers working on the Temple were foreordained in the pre-existent world to perform this work.
Since the inception of the Church in 1830, all faithful recipients of the Restored Gospel have been engaged in temple-building endeavors from the Kirtland Temple to the current construction of the Washington D.C. Temple. All knowledgeable Latter-day Saints are fully aware of the importance of temples and the administration of temple ordinances for both the living and the dead. Consequently it has been a constant desire among Mormons to erect holy nouses unto the Most High God so that heavenly personages can reveal themselves to mortals in wonderful temple manifestations.
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