The Mormon Apocrypha

Next year, in 2027, the Salt Lake Temple will be opened to the public for the first time in over seven years. To celebrate this occasion in advance, I want to share a sermon from the eleventh volume of the Journal of Discourses. Delivered by Brigham Young in Salt Lake City, it goes over the building of the Salt Lake Temple. I want your attention. I do not know how long it will be prudent to continue our meeting, but we would like to say a great deal more to the people. I will talk to you a little with regard to building the Temple. When br. Heber asks you to come and join us in drawing rock, you turn round and say, “I have paid my tithing; what more do you want? Do you want any donations or extra help? What do you do with the tithing?” This is in the minds of the people, and it is something that I think about, too, but I confess to you that, although I am Trustee-in-Trust and have the management of all this, I know but little about what is done with the tithing. Br. Hunter is Bishop, a...

Windows of Heaven (1979 revision) uploaded by Hard-to-find Mormon Videos On a visit to the St George Tabernacle a few months ago, one of the guides told me how over a hundred years ago, in 1899, in the tabernacle, Lerenzo Snow gave a revelation to the members of the Church in St George to pay tithing. If they did, the land would receive the rain it so desperately needed. The members in St George followed his counsel and soon, the rains came down upon the town. Snow went to other towns and cities after this to preach of tithing. Below are the words he said on that fateful day in St George, published in the Millennial Star. The Saint George Tabernacle, where Lorenzo Snow delivered his sermon on Tithing Brethren, sisters and friends, I wish to read to you this afternoon what occurred in the Temple of the Lord at Kirtland about sixty-three years ago. I was intimately acquainted with the parties concerned. It is a vision manifested to Joseph, the Seer, and Oliver Cowdery, in the Kirtland Te...