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Temples Rising: A Heritage of Sacrifice By Richard E. Bennett

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In their poverty, the early Kirtland Saints were commanded to build a temple "a house of learning, a house of glory, a house of order, a house of God" (D&C 88:119), so that the Lord could endow His people "with power from on high" (D&C 95:8). After abandoning Kirtland and that holy house, they built again in Nauvoo, only to leave that temple behind as well due to the rising tide of persecution. Upon arriving in the Great Basin, they quickly laid plans for the construction of the Salt Lake Temple, with temples in St. George, Manti, and Logan planned later but completed earlier than that monumental structure. Time after time, the Saints faced opposition and sacrifice, yet they continued to build, dedicate, learn, and worship. Why did these temples remain so important to the Saints and to the Lord in spite of so many roadblocks?

In Temples Rising, respected Latter-day Saints historian Richard Bennett explores the building of and worship in temples under extremely difficult circumstances and at great personal sacrifice, including the sacrificing of plural marriage in order to save those temples Written for the general membership of the Church, this engaging account of historical events reveals the story of how temple worship unfolded in a gradual, line-upon-line process of revelation and restoration.
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